Another spike for Sharry Baby?

[Luizacft]

Originally Posted by estación seca

Aloha! Iwanaga to the orchid nursery.

Is that for the nursery? The tag came with all those words on it, but i'm not good on Orchid names :-/

[estación seca]

Sorry, it was a joke depending on understanding how US English is pronounced, or mispronounced.

I - wana (want to) - ga (go)

[Luizacft]

Ohhhhhhh! Hehehehe. English is not my mother-tongue and I pronounce it a bit different in Portuguese. It would sound like 'ee-wanaga', not 'eye-wanaga'.

[estación seca]

I'm guessing the correct pronunciation might have the accent on the third syllable, but I don't speak Japanese at all and would welcome correction.

[bil]

Originally Posted by Zabeta

How are you caring for it?

Well, with my orchids I tend to go with wide shallow pots. For this and the other thin leaves the pots are about 12 inches wide and about three deep. I use a mix of coir and fine cut bark.
Watering is with RO water and frequency at the moment is twice a week, veering towards once as the temp drops. I fertilise every watering with the ultra low concentrations suggested on The 'First Ray's ' page. He has some excellent pages devoted to fertilisation. I use his KLite with monthly kelp. (For twice a week the fertiliser level is doubled, and it is trebled if the watering frequency drops to once a week.)

They all follow the Phal routine, which is winter in the greenhouse and then outside as soon as the danger of frost has passed. All the thins go outside under bright shade for the summer. (The phals get darker shade, but not absolute.)