Phrag. 'Jason Fischer'

[DelawareJim]

After years of struggling growing Phrags, I switched them to semi-hydro as a last ditch effort to save them. Literally on deaths door, I'm starting to see some results.







I water them almost daily now with 75ppm MSU in rainwater. My Sedenii and Hanna Popov x Lynn Goldner are also show amazing growth now. I'm so stoked!

Cheers.
Jim

[quiltergal]

How often do you have to water them Jim.

Sure wish my JF had form like yours. Mine looks like a bad MDC.

[DelawareJim]

Terri;

My plant is a single fan several years old now, so even though this is it's first flowering, it does have a bit of age on it's side. Not to rub it in, but it is putting out two new fans too.

Of course it depends on how fast they use water, dry out, etc. I started watering twice a week, but then after seeing travelogue photos of besseae growing in moss on cliff faces where the water was constantly dripping out of the moss I increased watering to virtually every day. I only have three Phrags and they're windowsill plants in an east-facing breakfast room (near the kitchen sink ) so it doesn't take much time or effort to water so frequently. The only days I don't water them are when I'm away, or I get busy and just forget.

Here you can see the wet rock in the background. (Not me, bye-the-bye ) Photo courtesy of Ecuagenera.



Cheers.
Jim

[SlipperGirl]

Cute phrag

[tucker85]

That's a beauty! Good growing.

[billc]

That's a nice dark red. Love it!

Bill

[bellini girl]

Looks like the change to SH worked. Continued good luck

[quiltergal]

Thanks Jim. I have 8 Phrags so watering every day could become a bit labor intensive. I have one that is struggling and I may move just that one to S/H and see if that improves things.

Do you happen to know the clonal name of your JF? I've been looking for one that has less yellow in the pouch like yours but have not had much success. Thanks!

[NYCorchidman]

Is this really color in your photos?
I don't know much about phrags but I've seen something very similar to this one but always with strong orange hue to the red.

I love the color on yours much more! watermelon or raspberry red I would say. really good!

By the way, I am trying my hand on my very first phrag. not doing so well. lol

[DelawareJim]

Originally Posted by NYCorchidman

Is this really color in your photos?
I don't know much about phrags but I've seen something very similar to this one but always with strong orange hue to the red.

I love the color on yours much more! watermelon or raspberry red I would say. really good!

By the way, I am trying my hand on my very first phrag. not doing so well. lol

Originally Posted by quiltergal

Thanks Jim. I have 8 Phrags so watering every day could become a bit labor intensive. I have one that is struggling and I may move just that one to S/H and see if that improves things.

Do you happen to know the clonal name of your JF? I've been looking for one that has less yellow in the pouch like yours but have not had much success. Thanks!

The label doesn't have a clonal name. Just "Phrag Jason Fischer".

The colour's pretty close. It actually has a slight blue shade to the red, not the usual orangey yellow-red I've seen in most. I got it from Woodstream back in 2009 along with a 'Bullseye'.

Try s/h. I started growing mine in the mix it came in, then tried adding sphagnum to the mix, then straight sphagnum, and finally just decided to go for broke with s/h. Mine would turn brown at the leaf tips and it would progress to the base. I was loosing leaves faster than they were growing. I was told it was either salt damage or letting it get too dry. I read where everyone was keeping them in saucers of water and just decided since I grow most everything else in s/h to have a go with them. Once I did that, the leaf dieback slowed down. When I started watering more frequently, it stopped and the plants started making progress. When I dialed back the MSU fertilizer from 125ppm N to 75ppm N, they really started to takeoff.

After I moved it to s/h, it sulked for a couple of months, then was almost 6 months of root only growth, and finally the top growth just took off.

So in my case, I think I was letting them get too dry and fertilizing too heavily.

Cheers.
Jim