Spring 2021 plant project: sign up and plant suggestions

[neophyte]

Originally Posted by Afid

Exactly what I was thinking as well, it could also be fun to do some Epidendrum species, as they are not terribly hard to find for sale, often easy-growing, and usually not too large or expensive.

I think I've seen Epi. fimbriatum making some rounds online; looks like it's a small one and the flowers look pretty cute.

[Keysguy]

Aerangis punctata

Interesting option as I just killed one of these.

[camille1585]

You can scratch the Capanemia micromera from the list, I didn't realize that it was a micro mini, and will need a terrarium environment to do well. Not the ideal project plant...

Another suggestion is one from the project 2 years ago that never took off. Vanda ampullacea (ex Ascocentrum ampullaceum) Vanda ampullacea or similar species (V. miniatum). Vanda miniata I would make this one canditate, with the possibility of getting either of these 2, depending on availability.


Tuberolabium kotoense is also a really nice candidate plant. Tuberolabium kotoense

Another nice one is Dendrobium unicum Dendrobium unicum

[neophyte]

I've recently become rather interested in trying some non-generic-phal Aeridinae species, so those sound super cool! (Keeping them alive is another matter...)

[3rdMaestro]

If we could set a date to have something selected, that would really get this project moving along. That being said, I'll be growing indoors under lights so I am interested in something that doesn't have funny temperature requirements, fussy humidity requirements, and isn't very big. Looking forward to hearing the verdict! Those 2 vanda Camille mentioned are beautiful, by the way

[neophyte]

Originally Posted by 3rdMaestro

If we could set a date to have something selected, that would really get this project moving along. That being said, I'll be growing indoors under lights so I am interested in something that doesn't have funny temperature requirements, fussy humidity requirements, and isn't very big. Looking forward to hearing the verdict! Those 2 vanda Camille mentioned are beautiful, by the way

I think for now we'll keep on brainstorming options and seeing which ones are relatively easy to find and grow so we can add them to (or remove them from) the upcoming poll, and in two weeks or so, when the weather gets warmer for our more northern members, we'll open the poll for one week. By the end of the poll it should be around the end of April, so hopefully the weather will be safe enough to order our plants and start growing! (We could probably open the poll a bit sooner if that's the general consensus as well).

Originally Posted by camille1585

Neophyte - I see you removed all of the Capanemai species, but Capanemia superflua (uliginosa) could stay in! It was only the micromera which was a terrarium loving micro mini.

I've started looking some of the plants up at various growers.

Ah ok, sounds good – that one is back on the list now. I'll do some more searching as to which ones are available as well!

[Keysguy]

Tuberolabium kotoense

Good one Camille!!!!!!!
Can we get them anywhere?

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by Keysguy

Good one Camille!!!!!!!
Can we get them anywhere?

I don't know yet, we have to start looking!

One thing I found is that Tuberolabium kotoense and Tuberolabium quisumbingii are very similar species and are even sometimes considered synonyms, so we can search for both

[3rdMaestro]

Originally Posted by camille1585

I don't know yet, we have to start looking!

The only place I saw right off hand in the US was Sophie's Orchids. And it looked like quite a limited number of them...

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by 3rdMaestro

The only place I saw right off hand in the US was Sophie's Orchids. And it looked like quite a limited number of them...

I can't find at all at any of the good US vendors I know of.