Project 2023 Spring Sarcochilus

[Roberta]

Originally Posted by Keysguy

I think we had 1 night in late January but I can't remember.

I'm sorry, was that being snotty?

Only a little... maybe take it with you to New Hampshire, scare it a little...

[estación seca]

They're small enough to take to New Hampshire.

[WaterWitchin]

Sarco Takes a Road Trip

[Hazeldazel]

Yeah the things I’ve read is to treat it like a cymbidium and a neofinetia had a cute baby. I’ve reported mine into 3” net pots in orchiata bark with lots of perlite and I’ll probably put them outside on my covered patio. I’ve kept my cymbidium outside all year round just pulled in to a more protected spot. I’ll probably bring the sarcos inside since it’s gone down to 28*F the last couple winters.

Edit: forgot to mention that when I repotted the two I got SVO last weekend, there wasn’t one dead root between the two of them. 👍 There was a moss plug at the center (which the roots were avoiding) that I removed. They came with smallish bark with a lot of decent sized perlite.

[ArronOB]

I want to be in this one.

I’m hoping I have an unfair advantage.

This is my little collection of sarcochilids. I bought these about 6 months ago. It was one of those bulk deals so I doubt they were their best stock.

Flowering should be in about 4 months - although I’ve been keeping them in excessively low light so I may miss out on flowering this year. I can’t see any flower spikes starting.

These came from Barrita Orchids, which is about 30km from us. They are further inland and somewhat more elevated although conditions should not be that much different. That has me hoping I should be able to grow them by sticking fairly close to Barita’s culture sheet.

They came in a mixture of perlite, polystyrene, charcoal and sphagnum, and they had a dense mat of living moss on top so they must have been kept very moist. The moss died off fairly quickly so I guess I’ve kept them drier.

I see sarcos growing wild when walking (very ocassionally) and always in deep, dark, ravines beside streams - usually on the permanently moist boulders streamside, or the lower trunks of the trees nearest the stream. However I note that Barita says that mimicking those conditions is not an ideal way to grow unless you want a lot of lush growth and very few flowers. I’ve always assumed that mimicking natural conditions as closely as possible is the best cultural practice but perhaps I need to rethink that.

Looking forward to seeing all your results. I’m not sure what blooming time to expect across the various cultural practices and hybrid backgrounds so it will be interesting.

Cheers
Arron

I also included a photo of Baritas potting mix, with the living moss long gone.

[Dalachin]

You must certainly do have an advantage!

What varieties? Species or hybrids?

Originally Posted by ArronOB

I want to be in this one.

I’m hoping I have an unfair advantage.

This is my little collection of sarcochilids. I bought these about 6 months ago. It was one of those bulk deals so I doubt they were their best stock.

Flowering should be in about 4 months - although I’ve been keeping them in excessively low light so I may miss out on flowering this year. I can’t see any flower spikes starting.

These came from Barrita Orchids, which is about 30km from us. They are further inland and somewhat more elevated although conditions should not be that much different. That has me hoping I should be able to grow them by sticking fairly close to Barita’s culture sheet.

They came in a mixture of perlite, polystyrene, charcoal and sphagnum, and they had a dense mat of living moss on top so they must have been kept very moist. The moss died off fairly quickly so I guess I’ve kept them drier.

I see sarcos growing wild when walking (very ocassionally) and always in deep, dark, ravines beside streams - usually on the permanently moist boulders streamside, or the lower trunks of the trees nearest the stream. However I note that Barita says that mimicking those conditions is not an ideal way to grow unless you want a lot of lush growth and very few flowers. I’ve always assumed that mimicking natural conditions as closely as possible is the best cultural practice but perhaps I need to rethink that.

Looking forward to seeing all your results. I’m not sure what blooming time to expect across the various cultural practices and hybrid backgrounds so it will be interesting.

Cheers
Arron

I also included a photo of Baritas potting mix, with the living moss long gone.

[ArronOB]

Originally Posted by Dalachin

You must certainly do have an advantage!

What varieties? Species or hybrids?

All hybrids. Seedlings not mericlones. Mostly crosses of various hybrids with ‘Kulnura’ in the name.

[OrchKid]

Hi, all!

This is my second posting %^) and I'm interested in joining this project! But I need to check a couple of things.

I would need something that will work in a terrarium (have to go out of town for about 6 weeks).

I'm looking at Sarcochilus olivaceous.... but does anyone know if that will work in a cool terrarium?

The terrarium is 12x12X18, and gets a 2-min misting every morning. All but one item is mounted, so they get fertilized weakly weekly with MSU. To give an idea of what's in it now:

- a lepanthopsis astrophora that's flowering now
- a haraelle odorate that just finished blooming (one flower; it's young yet)
- an ornithocephalus gladiatus that bloomed in March
- a leptotes bicolor that is happily growing but not blooming yet
- a dendrochillium parvulum that had a hard start (it was pre-terrarium) so will be recovering from that for a while.

(There was an angraecum somalensis too, but it started turning a little yellow so I took it out and moved it to a place with more light.)

So: does sarcochilus olivaceous have a chance here? (fingers crossed)

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[Roberta]

Looked it up... I think that it would work in your environment, it likes humidity. Range is very wide, so cool should be fine. Go for it!

[Clawhammer]

Just received my sarco! I potted it up in a mix of medium/large bark (75%) and river rocks (25%), which was the general advice I encountered on Aussie care sheets.

First time trying sarcochilus, looking forward to experiencing it with y'all

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