My greenhouse - Orquidário Faísca - Orchid Board

Luis Renato · #1 07-22-2012, 11:00 PM

Hi all

Let's show a little piece of my place to grow orchids:

2012-07-22 - Orquidário por Luis Renato (OnyxBronx), no Flickr

2012-07-22 - Orquidário por Luis Renato (OnyxBronx), no Flickr

It's a little messy, but every weekend I do something there...

Video:

Orquidário Faísca - 22/07/2012 - YouTube

- Is there anyway to put videos here?

Thanks!

WhiteRabbit · #2 07-22-2012, 11:50 PM

Awesome!

Bud · #3 07-23-2012, 12:03 AM

You have a very nice set up....I love that large specimen near the pond....

sailortom2 · #4 07-23-2012, 12:07 AM

do you go and collect orchids in the wild? looks like a lot of great plants

Paul Mc · #5 07-23-2012, 07:51 AM

Great space! Thanks for sharing it! Look forward to seeing them all bloom for you!

nlm2951 · #6 07-24-2012, 09:35 AM

Hi, and welcome. I see you use a lot of wood, what type it is ?

dounoharm · #7 07-24-2012, 07:39 PM

what a nice space, i know you love your time spent there....i love the little pond too, great for humidity....but i noticed, you have so much space there, when are you buying more orchids??? lmao.....

Luis Renato · #8 07-26-2012, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by dounoharm

what a nice space, i know you love your time spent there....i love the little pond too, great for humidity....but i noticed, you have so much space there, when are you buying more orchids??? lmao.....

yeah, it's great to spend some time at this place. the pond was built for the micro ones, that require more humidity. but I will put some fishes there, to gain some life. I am always buying some species. For exemple, this month I bought thirty orchids. I think I have two thousand species or more there.

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Originally Posted by nlm2951

Hi, and welcome. I see you use a lot of wood, what type it is ?

the wood i used there is from the trees that I took off to plant fruit trees. but was a mistake, it's not a good wood and i need to change the orchids that are using it.

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Originally Posted by Paul Mc

Great space! Thanks for sharing it! Look forward to seeing them all bloom for you!

sure, will be awesome.

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Originally Posted by sailortom2

do you go and collect orchids in the wild? looks like a lot of great plants

yes, I collect some in the wild. we have a lot of mountains near Curitiba, called Serra do Mar. it's a lovely place to spend a day collecting species near the rivers.

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Originally Posted by Bud

You have a very nice set up....I love that large specimen near the pond....

that one is a Dichaea. It's a red one (I don't the name of the red, but I have another called Dichaea pendula. You can see in my photos.

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Originally Posted by WhiteRabbit

Awesome!

Thanks!

Luis Renato · #9 07-30-2012, 08:32 PM

I will post my orchis in this topic...

Let's start with two girls from this weekend:

1029 - Sophronitis coccinea por Luis Renato (OnyxBronx), no Flickr

1144 - Tolumnia genting volcano por Luis Renato (OnyxBronx), no Flickr

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Baz in Oz · #10 07-31-2012, 04:01 AM

Nice set-up Luis!
Could I ask you what the tree in the middle background of photo #1 is? It appears to be an Auricaria of some sort, what we in Australia call a pine tree. I know South America and Australia were joined a few billion years ago and we share a lot of flora families. We have two native Auricarias and Norfolk Island out in the Pacific to our east has it's own native Auricaria and you guys have the 'monkey puzzle tree which is also in the same family.
The fern beside the fish pond in the last photo also looks a lot like one of our native Asplenium ferns locally called 'crow's nest ferns'.
Even the trailing fern hanging in the pond looks a lot like some of our Lycopodium ferns known as 'tassell ferns'.
Are they natives or plants that originated in Australia?

Baz