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Originally Posted by Azmahhh
I have similar fixtures. really beautiful plants!
Did the denphal and cattleya bloom exclusively under these lights? I have heard different opinions and I’m unsure. I love denphals!
Thanks!
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The catts have bloomed exclusively under these lights. And enough of them have bloomed, through the past year, that I know it's not a case of me purchasing a ready-to-spike plant.
The white dendrobium on the right side (Dendrobium Hiroshi Tokunaga) does occasionally get some light from the window, but not a lot. It's an east window, about 2 feet away, and I live in the Pacific NW so we get a lot of rain from September until May.
The purple denphal ("Dendrobium Mini Purple") is new - I got it at the Seattle Orchid Show about 2 months ago. At the time, there were two spikes. Since then, two more spikes have popped up, but prior culture is responsible for that.
There is enough light to grow nepenthes (tropical pitcher plants) and drosera (sundews) successfully, and both require high light. The drosera is getting enough light to produce nice dew and flowers growing half-way down from the bulbs. There's enough light to cause purple coloring on the leaves of some of the catts. The little light meter on my phone reads from 2,500-10,500 lx. The meter overall confuses me because when I switch it to foot candles, it doesn't come anywhere near what Andy's Orchids suggests for shade, medium, and bright, but the orchids are doing okay. I've had to move the shade-loving orchids down to the second shelf, where the the African violets and streptocarpus are getting enough light to bloom.
I do leave the lights on 16 hours a day. Sometimes 19 hours a day.
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