groving on teracotta - Page 2 - Orchid Board

nancy · #11 02-09-2009, 08:04 PM

Thomas, I am returning to this discussion late...
Could you please name the plants growing on your nanoviv, in addition to the Lepanthes (which is very juicy)? Two look like Schoenorchis? And a type of creeping fig, maybe?
I guess genus/species is actually the international language!
Is your fan a regular one, or a little computer cooler?
Thanks - Nancy in the hot zone
Blooming: Dendrobium fimbriatum and farmerii! Trias picta! Clowesia Rebecca Northen that smells of peppermint and fermented pineapple...

dabblin-n-orchids · #12 02-09-2009, 08:09 PM

I'm intrigued, confused, and i finally have a use for those terra cotta tubes I have lying around

. I may not have read carefully enough but do you fill it with water or does it sit in water? or both perhaps? and does the bottom stay drastically wetter than the top? I feel a project coming on . . . . . . .

Magnus A · #13 02-10-2009, 11:43 AM

dabblin-n-orchids, for more information you can take a look at the sticky thread:

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...n-pottery.html

The tube has been sealed in the bottom and you fill it with RO-water. My tube is wetter at the bottom.

/Magnus

dabblin-n-orchids · #14 02-10-2009, 12:19 PM

THANK YOU

juanna · #15 02-10-2009, 04:32 PM

Yeah, vent hole visible at top.
Fan with magnet glued on so it´s easily removable during maintenance and cleaning.
I have a little device on the cable to keep the fan from making to much noise.
Note there are a little pad between the magnet and the glass/(plastic) above is a 55w dulux with reflector wich also gives light to six to eight other orkids an soforth...
Thomas

cday2inflorida · #16 02-24-2009, 07:39 AM

This is probably one of most favorite threads - please keep snapping photos and explaining.

juanna · #17 02-24-2009, 03:11 PM

The viv is made out from a aquarium wich i cut in to halves.
I had to glue a bottom in one of them.
The lid you can see on ther foto has a slot for fresh air.
Thomas

cday2inflorida · #18 02-24-2009, 06:49 PM

Juanna....

I'm not getting the aquarium? What kind of aquarium?

10010100102 · #19 02-24-2009, 07:06 PM

Wow! What a cool little viv! How'd you get the moss to totally cover the ceramic tube like that? Did it just self-propagate, or did you have to seed it (I hope that's the right word) yourself?

juanna · #20 02-24-2009, 07:21 PM

The moss comes from itself, but you can get tropical moss and cut it in a mixer with a little white moss an put it on the ceramic if you are in a hurry.
thumperinflorida you know a two meter cylindical aquarium for havin goldfish in.
Not very practical but its a kind of show off aquarium.
Thomas