Trichosalpinx chamaelepanthes questions

[Paul Mc]

I've seen a few posts on here of people growing this, but I was hoping to get some details and better understanding of how to grow this one.

It came to me in a very small net pot with some bark in it, but not much. It was probably just enough bark to hold the thing in place, lol... It's about 6 inches long and I have noticed small roots all over the length of the "vine". So for all intents and purposes I am assuming it was basically grown bare-root.

My research seems to indicate it likes to be in about 2500 foot candles of light, moist and never go dry. Ummmm... I'm not sure if that is truly possible given how it was being grown and my growing spaces. Once I read this, I moved it to my terrarium where the humidity stays between 80 and 90%, a fog covers everything for about a total of three hours every morning intermittently and I have a very strong air flow in there since my previous terrarium had a serious issue with rot which I associated with lack of air flow.

My concern with how it is currently potted and where I am growing it is that once the fan kicks in and the fog is completely gone, it is dry within an hour. My other plants in pots don't usually get dry (or at least too dry) due to the pot choices I used given the stronger air flow.

So how do you grow them? What recommendations would you have for changing anything? Thanks in advance!


Paul McMahon
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