Brassavola retusa

[turock]

How beautiful! Good job! What's the fragrance like?


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[ShirinS]

Oh. So lovely.

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[brsucculents]

Originally Posted by Orchid killer

Lovely, Brassavola and their hybrids have tweaked my interest lately and I'm rather interested on how you have grown yours mounted on a piece of driftwood.

Brassavola is an interesting genus. I wish more species were readily available.
After seeing how well my B. perrinii did mounted, I want to mount all my Brassavola. This one is mounted on a piece of Crepe Myrtle from a branch that I cut down. This is a great wood for mounting btw. Last Summer it grew like a weed when I was dunking it in a bucket of fertilizer water every day. This Summer I have all my mounted plants under a shade cloth and a sprinkler on a timer. It doesn't get fertilized very often unfortunately.

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Originally Posted by turock

How beautiful! Good job! What's the fragrance like?

Thanks. Great question. I can't belive I haven't checked. I'll do that tonight.

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I could not detect any fragrance. It seems like it should be.

[Tschimm]

I also grow all my Brassavola mounted. They are all doing quite well though I have lost some new growths to rot. So be carefull with watering when temps are below 70F and provide good airflow.

[brsucculents]

Originally Posted by Tschimm

I also grow all my Brassavola mounted. They are all doing quite well though I have lost some new growths to rot. So be carefull with watering when temps are below 70F and provide good airflow.

I guess this is a genus that likes it HOT. My society had a speaker from Canada this past month who said nodosa didn't grow that well there. I was shocked. I assumed it grew well every where.

[MrHappyRotter]

Every time I tell myself "NO MORE ORCHIDS" I run across something like this on the forums. Now I realized I need a small night fragrant Cattleya alliance collection, I'll take B. retusa, B. glauca, and E. nocturnum. Fortunately for me, I don't think I have quite enough light for these things, so I can convince myself to let them live with people who do have the right conditions.

[Tschimm]

Originally Posted by brsucculents

I guess this is a genus that likes it HOT. My society had a speaker from Canada this past month who said nodosa didn't grow that well there. I was shocked. I assumed it grew well every where.

Yes. It occurs mostly on my subulifolia which is from Jamaica.
Never had problems with my perrinii.
The problem was dripping mounts above. Since I make sure the new growths dry quickly, the subulifolia is doing quite well, even in not so hot Switzerland.

@mrhappypotter:
Not every Brassavola requires very high light. B. cucullata, flagellaris, perrinii turn red much quicker than my nodosa, I had to put them in lower light.

The easiest one in my (intermediate) conditions seems to be the perrinii. Never had problems with it.

[estación seca]

Originally Posted by MrHappyRotter

I realized I need a small night fragrant Cattleya alliance collection, I'll take B. retusa, B. glauca, and E. nocturnum.

Only 3?

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I have seen nodosa and cucullata x nodosa grown as large masses of plant dangling from a hanger, no medium, no container. I just got a small nodosa seedling so I'm trying again with these. I can only guess I watered too much in the past and kept them outside, where summer nights are too hot for them.

[isurus79]

Originally Posted by estación seca

I have seen nodosa and cucullata x nodosa grown as large masses of plant dangling from a hanger, no medium, no container. I just got a small nodosa seedling so I'm trying again with these. I can only guess I watered too much in the past and kept them outside, where summer nights are too hot for them.

These guys can only be mounted like this with adequate humidity (~60% or more). I wouldn't put a mounted Brassavola outside in AZ!

[estación seca]

Originally Posted by isurus79

These guys can only be mounted like this with adequate humidity (~60% or more). I wouldn't put a mounted Brassavola outside in AZ!

I wasn't clear - I would never think of putting any orchid I just received outside here, except perhaps during a few weeks in early spring or late fall. The only orchids I put outside during summer are some Eulophias, and they are terrestrials in mostly shade.