| DelawareJim |
12-23-2013 08:21 AM |
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Originally Posted by Leafmite
(Post 640992)
Wow! That is just gorgeous! Is this the same size and does this take the same care as a cernua? That flower is amazing.
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This is larger than a cernua. Leaves are about 2 to 2.5 cm wide and about 7 to 8 cm long and the flower is about 5 cm across. It's supposed to prefer conditions a little cooler and wetter than cernua, but I generally treat them the same.
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Originally Posted by isurus79
(Post 641010)
Beautiful Jim! I asked you this same question on Flicker, so sorry for the redundancy, but exactly what did you do with the plant before and after talking to Peter? Was it just a matter of new media and brighter light, or is there more to your story of success? I'm also interested in your temps, especially the maximum.
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When I first got it, I treated it just like my Neos. It came planted in pure sphagnum moss and I was growing it in an east facing window and kept moist all the time. It would put out a lot of new growths but they kept dying off and then the rhizome started rotting. In Peters email, he simple said treat it just like a Cattleya. So I repotted it in bark and moved it to a south facing window that gets filtered light from a nearby tree. The leaves started showing the tell-tale purple stripe down the mid-vein after I moved it. In the summer, it goes outside on my deck under my Honey Locust tree where it, my S. cernuas, and all my Neos get filtered sun all day. I keep it pretty moist, watering once or twice a week as needed, and fertilising with MSU at 1/4 - 1/2 tsp per gallon (50-100 ppm N).
It's growing like a weed now and this spring I have to repot it. I'm plannning to train a rizome onto a piece of Epiweb/Ecoweb I have and see how it grows mounted.
Cheers.
Jim |
