Anyone growing Sophronitis mantiqueirae?

[rbarata]

Tips are welcome, especially regarding higher temperatures.

Thanks

[estación seca]

Bump.

Edit: Later.

Did you see this? I'm a member, so I don't know whether it is accessible to non-members.

American Orchid Society: The Culture of Brazilian Sophronitis

...Sophronitis mantiqueira (...named after the Brazilian chain of mountains), however, occur[s] at altitudes ranging from 1,800 to 2,300 meters. Cultivating [this] species in regions with altitudes around 1,000 m is possible, but the plants suffer from the environmental changes. They often wrinkle and decline under these conditions, flowering less and less each year. Moving plants of [this] species to even warmer regions (at lower altitudes) makes them "dwarfs" which soon die.

There is more, about relative humidity, which the article suggests should never go under 70%. The plants are found only in areas with a dense carpet of tank bromeliads on the forest floor, keeping relative humidity extremely high.

The article appears to have been manually retyped for the Web page, and has a lot of what I think are typographical errors. So be careful.

[rbarata]

ES, I haven't noticed before your reply.
It seems my 1st main problem with this species is humidity. The 2nd is day summer temps.

I was thinking about getting one, today I sent an e-mail asking if there's any available, but after reading the AOS article, and also considering the plant price, I'm having second thoughts about it.

[estación seca]

Get an Aporocactus. They're easy to grow in hanging baskets and have brilliant flowers.

[rbarata]

Originally Posted by estación seca

Get an Aporocactus. They're easy to grow in hanging baskets and have brilliant flowers.

They are beautiful indeed. If I find one of these I'll pick it, as well as a second one for my daugther (she loves succulents and similar).

[Leafmite]

That is a pretty cool cacti.

If I like an orchid/plant that I absolutely cannot grow in my conditions without extreme difficulty, I often look for another orchid/plant that has the same traits that I like in the first but that will fit my conditions. Have you ever seen Phragmipedium besseae? It has a brightly colored flower but will easily grow in intermediate conditions. Soph cernua is a cute, heat-tolerant orchid, too, with bright flowers.