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12-05-2021, 05:38 PM
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C. violacea 'Muse'
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12-05-2021, 11:59 PM
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Beautiful - personally, I like the gracefulness of a single bloom!
Your posts made me go buy a C. violacea (After the last time you posted). I've read that they hate cool temps and wet feet. Knowing my propensity to overwater, I mounted mine.
How do you grow yours?
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12-06-2021, 04:15 AM
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Jeff ----- excellent to hear that you bought a C. violacea! I agree with you - that a single bloom is very nice, and graceful too.
I think so ----- as in there really is some consensus about relatively cold plus wet can lead to growing issues for a lot of orchids.
For this violacea in my growing area - it's just growing in 10 to 15 cm average diameter scoria, with a good drainage pot. Over here, I notice it handles temporary dry-outs of the media ----- no problem at all. There generally is some gentle air-movement in the growing area here - so the air can gently move around among the media.
In the morning, I just use a water spray nozzle (with a 9 litre) weed sprayer bottle kit for watering all the orchids. The tropical environment here is generally nice on the orchids.
My growing area is under a balcony. Lighting level is pretty good for most of the day. A lot of the orchids even get some full morning sun.
I do have to watch it in the hottest days of summer though ----- as some orchids in the growing area may even get some early after-noon sun, which can be quite intense. That's why some of my catts have the scorch marks on the leave hehe. They always pull through though. But I still have to watch out for that kind of thing.
The main nasties here are the usual - scale and mealybugs ----- and sometimes -- spider-mites.
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12-06-2021, 04:37 AM
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Very nice color
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12-06-2021, 07:47 AM
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Lovely
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12-07-2021, 05:13 AM
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Stunning! Congratulations 👏🎉
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12-07-2021, 09:38 AM
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splendid. Really well grown like always.
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12-11-2021, 06:20 PM
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Still holding up nicely. Nice illumination from the morning light this morning.
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12-13-2021, 07:01 AM
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Excellent colors and shape. It's quite a beauty.
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