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Originally Posted by Dusty Ol' Man
I have a suggestion for your cedar shingle drying out so fast. If you were to place the bottom of the shingle in a vessel with an inch of water, it would wick up the shingle and stay moist longer. There are various ways to do this, but a plastic plant saucer of sufficient depth could be hung with the shingle. Just a thought.
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It isn't easy to see from the picture, but my small tolumnia has a band of sphagnum wrapped around the shingle about a 1/4 inch below the plant. With daily watering it keeps the shingle moist and the root tips can grow into it. This arrangement is kinda-sort similar to your suggestion, which I may need to use when the heat comes on this winter (which in Mississippi is December). Yours is a good idea, and I may need to use it later.
If y'all can't tell, I'm, in effect, new to Tolumnia. That is, it's been many years since I killed one, and it isn't because I know how to grow them.
But my wife likes them and I can easily keep 1000 of them in my greenhouse.
-Keith