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Originally Posted by Aceetobe

Ehhh...maybe I should have been more precise - I linked that from the AOS webpage (wheres the roll eyes emoti?) If I had to guess that would be Greg Allikas's hand and picture.

I do have many rupiculous laelias - I guess around 25 or so - I don't find them hard at all to grow. I live in San Diego and just grow them outside. For rupiculous laelias, you have to grow them in more or less perfect drainage. I was shown (by Greg Allikas) how he pots his. He takes a clay pot and knocks the bottom out of it. He then fills the bottom with large chunks of charcoal or anything thats really chunky. Then the top is filled with either pea gravel or fine grade aliflor. They should be watered almost every day. The rupics don't seem to need much fertilizer. I've also seen people around here grow them successfully in straight sand.

There are two types of rupiculous laelias - ones that are tall, and the others that are short. The tall ones have the leaf at an angle, and the short ones have the leaf pointing straight up. The short ones grow almost continually, and can be repotted at any point in time. The tall ones have a one growth/year growth habit, so care must be made repotting. They take around 4000fc or more of light - up to full sun for the short ones and around 5000 for the tall ones.

Thanks for the tips!!! I have about 20 or so, but they grow and not bloom. I've only managed to bloom one. UGH.

I've been trying full sun.