maxillaria tenuifolia

[TikiGeorge]

Is it too late to join the unsuccessful attempt at mounting your max club? I tore apart my nicely growing plant apart into 4 pieces back in May and mounted it to a homemade moss pole. It gave me 1 bloom and all but died by august. I took the emaciated bits and jammed them into a 3 inch pot with straight sphagnum. I grow it in a SE facing window and keep it constantly moist. It has made an amazing recovery, with its new growth and much plumper pbulbs. I think it should be able to bloom by summer. It's an amazingly tough plant!

[Orchidnut]

Jerry,
thank you I had never read that before I will try it i would love for it to flower... I will keep everyone else updated

[Orchidaholic]

I grow 2 tenufolias. One in a 4in clay orchid pot in tree fern, the other is mounted on a totem of tree fern. Both seem to do well but the potted one does a little better. I think the only thing that helps my mounted one grow well it that it sits near my tolumnias which need watering everyday. They can take all sorts of lighting or temps but prefer more watering's. I have read from some that fertilizing can be the culprit to seeing no blooms. As with some oncidiums too, to much nitrogen will just make a plant fat and happy, so happy that it does not want to perpetuate itself! I fertilize mine only for 1 month(when I see new growths forming) and other than that it gets just water. Blooms just fine and is forming spikes right now!

[Pseudo-Scientist]

I had a one about 2 years ago that I repotted when i probably should have waited, and there was basically no saving it.

I got a new one 2 months ago, and while it didn't seem happy at first, its looking better.

Anyone got an idea on how to et it into SH?
As the new bulbs walk up, its kinda hard to keep it on a pot. And are they as fussy about root disturbance as I hear?