Zygopetalum still in bloom but growing new bulbs?

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Grow it on a porch or under a tree and try your best to keep the immediate temperature around the plant around 95 F at the warmest.

[ramonypony]

Originally Posted by King_of_orchid_growing:)

Grow it on a porch or under a tree and try your best to keep the immediate temperature around the plant around 95 F at the warmest.

I've set up a shelf outside that is South facing, I have several cattleyas, vandas that I'm going to put out. The shelf is near a huge oak tree so it will get some shade from that but I could put some shade cloth over the zygo if I had to. If it gets too hot won't lots of air circulation keep it safe? The shelf is in a windy spot but I could set up a little fan if I had to.

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Originally Posted by Cym Ladye

I use a different potting media..

What do you use?

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Originally Posted by ramonypony

I've set up a shelf outside that is South facing, I have several cattleyas, vandas that I'm going to put out. The shelf is near a huge oak tree so it will get some shade from that but I could put some shade cloth over the zygo if I had to. If it gets too hot won't lots of air circulation keep it safe? The shelf is in a windy spot but I could set up a little fan if I had to.

Sounds ok. Zygos grow shadier than Catts and Vandas, with this in mind, you can make the proper adjustments.

I recommend keeping a watch on your orchids to see how they do. I wouldn't just put the orchids there and leave them alone for days unless you knew how the orchids would react to being put there.

[Cym Ladye]

Watch the humidity to see it does not get too low. A South facing area for orchids is generally too hot and too bright for many orchids, but you should be able to adjust by trial and error.