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03-21-2022, 10:22 AM
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Well the C.K. Ai X Canniliculatum is in what you might call "semi Hydroponic." It absoultely loves it, though when I first started it, I figured I would kill it. The species Atroviolicia is not, and I wonder if I should put it into that form of culture. I am now getting a new one-- a X canniliculatum also. I am watering the little guy (aberrans) every day. I can't even think how to mount that without killing it.
So I have a lot of issues with care instructions. When I see an orchid from somewhere like New Guinea now, no matter if it is an epiphyte or not, I think automatically Hydroponic. Semi Hydro (my interpretation) is just more air-flow to the root, while keeping it near water and the constant evaporation in the root zone.
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03-21-2022, 06:54 PM
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I have two that I grow in S/H that do very well. I make sure that top layer doesn't dry out though. (I grow indoors under lights.)
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04-26-2022, 11:17 PM
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Well, it is happy, happy, happy!!!! 5 new growths (new canes) forming! I totally rock at Latourias! My parakeets keep pooping on them though.
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04-26-2022, 11:47 PM
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Well, it is happy, happy, happy!!!! 5 new growths (new canes) forming! I totally rock at Latourias! My parakeets keep pooping on them though.
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The Dens must like the fertilizer! |
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04-28-2022, 10:45 PM
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The Dens must like the fertilizer!
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It's the water. Lautourias like more water and more light than I had thought before. |
04-28-2022, 11:12 PM
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It's the water. Lautourias like more water and more light than I had thought before.
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I was thinking of the parakeet poop... |
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04-30-2022, 05:18 PM
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I was thinking of the parakeet poop...
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Well maybe some. It is mainly on their leaves, and orchids don't feed through their leaves.
I actually gave them a shower yesterday to clean it off their leaves. |
09-15-2022, 04:42 PM
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Just wanted to check in and say this summer in late July and August, I was watering pretty much everyday. I grow mine outside, under a tree for shade. They have put out more growth than any other year I have had them.
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