2019 orchid project - let's brainstorm some ideas!

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by rbarata

As a side note, altough last project was rupiculous Laelias, I proposed two species of these: Laelia harpophylla and Laelia vasconcelosiana.

Why?

Because I got one of each but I wasn't really sure about how to care for it properly. By using a project, I could exchange information with other members.
The information about their culture is scarse, especially about vasconcelosiana. This species, as I wrote in another thread, was discovered in 2010, less than 10 years ago.
A brasilian vendor (Colibri orchids, if I'm not wrong), as a way to protect its habitat and prevent collectors fom collecting them from the wild, investigated the best way to reproduce them artificially to start to commercialize it.
I think now it's on the advertisement phase, as this plant is starting to show for sale.
By adhering to a project for this specie, it would be a great way to achive this goal.

I understand that you really would like one of these as project plant, but I didn't feel that it was a viable option. Because it's so new in cultivation, few vendors have them (the US is particularily problematic), and the ones I do find are either not blooming size or too expensive for a project plant. One of the two was also far too large (in bloom especially), given the preference in the poll for a small project plant. So for this project, they are out.

But if you would like to do a project specifically with these, you are more than welcome to start one! There's no rule against several projects running at once. You may be able to rustle up some interest by posting in the rupiculous laelia project thread, to see if people doing that one would like to do another Laelia project.

[Bulbopedilum]

I have a possibly interesting idea for a project, perhaps for a future one.
The core idea is growing native orchids.

Each participant should grow a native orchid that has a similar growing pattern (e.g. Grow-Rest/Dormancy-Flower).

Each participant should provide informatiom about their climate (such as average yearly weather) and their own growing conditions, so other members can compare the conditions of the orchid's native habitat's conditions and the grower's growing conditions.

I have spotted one large problem in this idea, though, because when it is fall on one side of the Earth, where some native species are going dormant, it is spring on the other side, where some native species are waking up.

[3rdMaestro]

Is a mini-vanda still on the list? I like miniatures

[neophyte]

hi everyone, apologies if i've missed anything, but is this project still going on? just wanted to check in.

[rbarata]

How about Laelia lundii?

[orion141]

I’m still game for a project!!

[Bulbopedilum]

Me too!
Some suggestions. I dont know how to check the availability in US/EU, so I only checked the temperatures.
Bulbophyllum fascinator
Paphiopedilum lowii
Dendrobium leonis

[neophyte]

hi all, are we still doing this project? it would be really nice if we could get this going again.

[camille1585]

At this point, better to wait until spring. It's getting too cold to order for many people. It was unfortunate that I was really busy at work when organizing the project and could never find time to finalize it...

[neophyte]

Darn! We waited for spring and now there's a pandemic...