C.coccinea in hybrid parentage

[greenhouseFrog]

Originally Posted by RJSquirrel

they cant be a good choice for everyone but I dont see any trouble for you growing these in southern fried florida.

good luck!!

I love everything about that picture down to the siding on the home!

This feels so contradictory as I’m writing it, but after seeing your photo I’m wondering if my plant may not have needed as much light and heat as I thought it did when I mounted it…It was getting drenched in full sun throughout the heat of summer, but it’s solitary new growth(it’s a seedling)kept slowly getting bigger and slowly putting out new roots so I was just glad it was doing something normal. I feel like I’m hot garbage with Cattleya types except for the 2 nodosa hybrids I got recently—those things laugh at the sun!

[Roberta]

There are very few orchids that want blazing, unfiltered sun all day. A bit of shading brings down the leaf temperature - high ambient temperature is OK, it's the direct heat + light of the sun that can toast leaves.

[greenhouseFrog]

Originally Posted by Roberta

There are very few orchids that want blazing, unfiltered sun all day. A bit of shading brings down the leaf temperature - high ambient temperature is OK, it's the direct heat + light of the sun that can toast leaves.

About a week ago, I mounted one of the nodosa hybrids about 14 inches away from the coccinea hybrid on the same tree—the nodosa loves that spot;roots that looked dead and broken are sprouting little root tips all over now and it has a new growth poking through from somewhere within the rootball it made within the 2” pot it came with. Perhaps shading that coccinea hybrid with another nodosa hybrid or two would work out well for everyone