In Europe, a gardener who earns his lifelihood by cultivating orchids, will be responsible for one greenhouse containing thousands of plants. Such 'professional' orchid gardeners divide the orchid growing areas as follows.
(a) warm growing orchids: to be kept at not lower than + 20°C, including at night,
(b) orchids from temperate regions : to be kept at not lower than + 17°C, including at night,
(c) cool growing orchids : to be kept at not lower than + 14°C, including at night.
Coryanthes plants require not only warm temperatures, they also require bright light and, moreover, require to be given 150 ppm of fertiliser per day and, fourth, require that their compost is maintained in good condition at all times.
Please note that I have used the word REQUIRE four times here ...
If these 4 conditions are met by the grower in a sustained manner, a Coryanthes in a few years will become a big 'specimen plant' with dozens of bulbs and leaves 50 cms long - and producing flowers every year ...
If these 4 required conditions are not met by the grower, a Coryanthes plant will decline and perish.
Though all Coryanthes plants commercially available are grown from seed and can be bought cheaply,
they should not be grown without the respect these wonders of plant evolution deserve ...
Hasta luego.
Last edited by Manfred Busche; 01-20-2012 at 09:25 AM..
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