Encyclia tampensis (Florida Butterfly Orchid)

[Gage]

Originally Posted by Bud

Thank You, Sonya !

@Gage...I put it outside my fire escape for direct sun from dawn to 10 am together with my vandas....maybe that did the trick and ended its sulking...plus....Manhattan has strated to be warm and humid early this year

Mine gets full sun until 10 or so, but then it's a bit too much shade after that because they are hanging on the south side of the tree. "Why don't you put them on the north side of the tree?", you ask? Because the Vandas get the prime spots on the north side of the tree. However, I did just cut the tree back extensively, so everything is getting a lot more light.

[Bud]

Dont cut the trees....maybe trim them...some plants can ride on with the Vandas...you should see my set-up ...every Vanda basket gets 4 mounted mini plant hanging like xmas ornaments

[RosieC]

Nice!

[gnathaniel]

Nice one, Bud! This is a great little species.

--Nat

[Bud]

Thank You, Rosie!

Thank You, Nat !

[TOMMYMIAMI]

maybe too late to add to this but I have one of the butterfly orchids, I bought it just a few days ago, after blooming, but there are still spikes with dead flowers and some kind of pockets at the ends of the spikes where flower was. I hope someone who is familiar with these know what I am talking about. What to do with the spike when it is done blooming? Should I cut them like with other orchids?

[Bud]

Originally Posted by TOMMYMIAMI

maybe too late to add to this but I have one of the butterfly orchids, I bought it just a few days ago, after blooming, but there are still spikes with dead flowers and some kind of pockets at the ends of the spikes where flower was. I hope someone who is familiar with these know what I am talking about. What to do with the spike when it is done blooming? Should I cut them like with other orchids?

Very nicely mounted, Tommy!
Thanks for showing your blooms.
I usually let the spike die out, shrivel and disconnect.
These are wild orchids and they like to be left alone without a fuss.

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Originally Posted by Bud

Very nicely mounted, Tommy!
Thanks for showing your blooms.
I usually let the spike die out, shrivel and disconnect.
These are wild orchids and they like to be left alone without a fuss.

Thanks bud, I was planning to do exactly the same, just wanted to make sure:-) I hope it will bloom for me next year, I have not seen the flowers, I bought it after bloom:-) And I just scored also the long search one - Ghost Orchid, although it is Dendrophylax Funalis, not Lindenii, but I am still happy, I could not find lindenii anywhere, online nor with growers. So now I do have all 3 Florida native that I wanted, clamshell, butterfly and ghost:-))))

[Bud]

You will find the Florida ghost online but make sure it is at least a year old seedling=the ones newly coming out of a flask has a high mortality rate....if you have a chance go find a bark with a dead lindenii or bark near the lindenii plant it contains the necessary fungi that co-exists with the plant to help it make food....lots of air circulation and humidity....good luck on the funalis they grow well in doors(mine is about a foot long now).

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Originally Posted by Bud

You will find the Florida ghost online but make sure it is at least a year old seedling=the ones newly coming out of a flask has a high mortality rate....if you have a chance go find a bark with a dead lindenii or bark near the lindenii plant it contains the necessary fungi that co-exists with the plant to help it make food....lots of air circulation and humidity....good luck on the funalis they grow well in doors(mine is about a foot long now).

I do grow everything outside, and I think since I am in Miami, funalis should do just fine! I always wondered where I can actually find florida native orchids in nature, cause the only place I have ever seen wild orchids was everglade national park, and I do not think you can take even the dead one with bark from there:-) But funalis is mounted, and it originally comes from Philippines so I think it does not need the same stuff like true native lindenii. And you are so right, the only lindenii I found was seedlings in flask, too small, and easily dying as I heard from one profi that owns orchid farm:-)