Phragmipedium grown as a Bog plant?

[isurus79]

Originally Posted by Justinjames

I have a collection of phrags and paphs, both seedlings and and mature in net baskets with leca. I've got them in a flood table. First i went with an ebb and flow system and now a drip system due to the growing diversity of the plants. I've had the experiment going for a year now and keep building it out. I have had a lot of success with it. The seedlings are growing much faster than before the hydro, and the much more mature plants seem to as well. Anyway I like it, I don't have to water them.... computer does it for me.

That's my experience with phrags and water culture.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Please start a new thread on this!! I'd love to see it.

[Justinjames]

I will do that... I had no idea there was any interest! I'll post in the hydro section...

[D_novice]

Originally Posted by estación seca

People grow some very sensitive bog plants. like Heliamphora carnivorous pitcher plants, in "to-and-fro" systems. The water is circulated back and forth through a relatively small root area. The Phrags I've seen in habitat photos (never been there) grow on mossy rock faces with cascading sheets of water, or next to flowing streams. You might be able to duplicate this by diverting some outflow from a pump over the Phrag medium.

I will report back to everyone next month, I am going to Colombia and am visiting Phrag habitat . But if you read up, they grow in saturated conditions.

I grow mine in humidity trays with the grate removed, so 2.75" of water, and until I recently put in a small aquarium pump, it was standing water. I don't think it's hurt the plants, and another excellent grower locally also has her phrags in standing water.

I saw another facility where they move their phrags into a basin for a few hours, then flood it with water, drain it, flood it again, repeat. Seems silly in a drought prone area but people will do anything for their orchids.

[Optimist]

I know a simple ebb/flow system you can use with a fish tank pump, a timer, and a barrel to keep/catch the water in. Indoor friendly. Hm, Was thinking about making that. My problem is everyone says you are not supposed to re-use the water. Well, ebb/flow actually uses the water quite a lot. Keeps recirculating.