Sophronitis cernua (Project 14 - Spring 2012)

[Discus]

Originally Posted by camille1585

Uh oh, that's not good! Your significant other doesn't agree? You should explain that it's not just another plant, it's a project plant!!

SO has opined that plants have taken over enough of the balcony and the humidity is doing bad things to the paint Also, we're not sure where we'll be in a year's time, so I guess that's fair enough.

[Discus]

Originally Posted by pedidiva

Oh Discus~~
I'm sorry. Have your SO read this thread & see how CUTE S. cernua is. Perhaps a combo BDay, Christmas, Anniversary gift? One gorgeous orchid for all of those dates! That works well with my spouse.

She's usually quite supportive of my crazy impulses, so usually that would fly - her main concerns are space and damage to the fabric of the building - and the possibility we may move (potentially inter-continentally) in the next year.

[bballr4567]

Originally Posted by Discus

SO has opined that plants have taken over enough of the balcony and the humidity is doing bad things to the paint Also, we're not sure where we'll be in a year's time, so I guess that's fair enough.

This thing is TINY. If I didnt have a Dendrobium peguanum this would be the smallest plant by a HUGE margin. In fact, I would expect in large collections that this guy might get forgotten about.

[silken]

Originally Posted by Discus

She's usually quite supportive of my crazy impulses, so usually that would fly - her main concerns are space and damage to the fabric of the building - and the possibility we may move (potentially inter-continentally) in the next year.

My hubby is usually very supportive too. But while he would never tell me NO, when the final price for this one was going to be over $50.00 and he isn't impressed with the look of it to begin with, well, there was no support from him on this one. We are in the middle of quite an extensive renovation in our sun room/greenhouse and I am having trouble keeping the 100+ chids happy that I already have. We are having to work around all of them and move them periodically etc. So I will wait for another project after we are finished.
Thanks Camille and others for all the work you did on this one. I've still been following the thread as its still fun to observe from the sideline!

[Rowangreen]

For anyone in Europe still looking, I've found a quirk with the Schwerter website. I did a search for just cheaper plants, and to my surprise several popped up that I hadn't seen in the general listings. In particular, I thought they only had cornu-cervi in chattalaidie and flava, and it turns out they have it in a couple of other varieties if you search for under 10 euros. Another plant I'm looking at they have a cheaper version that didn't show before. I'm guessing the standard links on the side of the website just show the biggest versions, unless you specifically look for cheaper.

Which means I have to bump something off my list and decide which version of cornu-cervi to get. Decisions, decisions...

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by Rowangreen

For anyone in Europe still looking, I've found a quirk with the Schwerter website. I did a search for just cheaper plants, and to my surprise several popped up that I hadn't seen in the general listings. In particular, I thought they only had cornu-cervi in chattalaidie and flava, and it turns out they have it in a couple of other varieties if you search for under 10 euros. Another plant I'm looking at they have a cheaper version that didn't show before. I'm guessing the standard links on the side of the website just show the biggest versions, unless you specifically look for cheaper.

Which means I have to bump something off my list and decide which version of cornu-cervi to get. Decisions, decisions...

I don't see what you mean??? How do you search for cheaper plants? I just type the name of the orchid in the search box, but don't know if it does the same.

[camille1585]

Oh, I think I found what you did? Advanced search and give a price limit? Because I think I'm seeing lots of nice orchids that I've never seen before!!!

[Rowangreen]

Great! Just to clarify, I am talking about using advanced search and setting a price limit (and a catagory to limit numbers), versus using the straight listings links (eg 'species') on the left.

The cernua and picta still don't show up, but he's said they are not on the website!

PS: Just fallen in love with Paraphalaenopsis labukensis. But it's a giant plant and needs conditions I can't supply by the sound of it, so one for the 'one day' list. He has young plants, so maybe once they get to flowering size...

[camille1585]

Schwerter has a ton of stuff which isn't online. A couple years ago someone sent me the PDF of the entire catalogue. Less than half of the plants had 'online' written next to it!

[kavanaru]

Those plants under 10€ are actually young plants, which you can see as well if you go to Phalaenopsis>species>jungpflanzen...