Den bracteosum

[Hawaiian Sunshine]

Fpr susiep: My Den. bracteosums like a lot of filtered sunlight. I grow them with my cattleyas under 50% shade cloth. I use fir bark mixed with perlite as my medium. The attached link shows a pink variety that I have blooming at the moment. The flowers have been blooming for a couple of months now. As you can see, the flowers hold up very well. The plant is in a 5-inch plastic pot and the tallest stem is about 12 inches tall.

[susiep]

Beautiful! I didn't know they could get that big. That's great. I'm not sure what this one is planted in. It is in the small size wood basket and there is this velvety moss covering the top of the media. No telling what is under there! It looks really nice and the plant seems happy so I may leave it that way for now. I'll post pics to show what it looks like later. Thanks for the advice!

[chloeangus]

Hi!

I have this orchid- this is actually my second one. I LOVE this plant but have had terrible luck with it thus far. I would love some help!

I bought one which looked small but fine, potted in maybe a 2" pot with bark and some perlite. After I had had the orchid about 2 weeks, during which time I had barely watered it, I noticed the orchid was doing very poorly. I unpotted the orchid and saw that all the roots seemed to be rotted, so I cut them off and put the orchid in a new pot and sprayed the orchid lightly every day (I approached the problem of the rotten roots this way because I had had a dendrobium once before that I received with rotted roots, I cut them off and sprayed the orchid and it re-grew roots, bloomed and grew great). At first this orchid grew some kiekis, but then it slowly shriveled and died

So I got a new one mounted a little while ago. The plant itself was a little better looking and larger than the previous one I had gotten. The moss on the branch the orchid was mounted on was black and decomposed when I got it, and after I had had the orchid for about a week it again looked less plump and healthy than when I got it, so I decided to un-mount and maybe remount it. When I un-mounted the orchid some of the roots were dead, but there were a couple still alive. I put it in a basket for now while I do more research, but the orchid doesn't really look any better.

Can anyone help?!?! I would really not like bracteosum #2 to die

My apartment is pretty warm, there is bright light year round (big southern windows). I have a fan and a humidifier on my orchids.

[ewcia1028]

very pretty

[Tindomul]

Wow, this is a jewel. Thanks for sharing, I had no idea this species existed.