An orchid for cold, damp, low light office...

[Ross]

Originally Posted by Kaykay

Ross,
thanks for the pointer! I was hoping that there would be maybe something somewhere out there. Distilled water no prob (live in hard water area so use it anyway). Any specific species/ hybrids you'd go for? Have never grown anything from the pleurothallis alliance before...
And dracs are such good looking plants!!!
Kay

I have three different Dracs but no recommendations, per se. Depends on what you like. Try for D. lotax as it is small, really like cool air and high humidity and I grow mine down in bottom of a tank with really low light (only source of light is florescent tubes at top of tank.) I once measured the light and think it was only about 500 foot-candles. You can get close to that with a florescent desk lamp set very close to the plant. The flowers are held approx at top of leaves so light tubes can be real close. Good luck on this mission. It's worth a try.