Sophronitis cernua (Project 14 - Spring 2012)

[kavanaru]

Originally Posted by 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!

Camille, this is a list you can request from them if you are a private customer and they have you registered in their database (not the online registration in the website!)

and as you mentioned, they always have much more plants which are not in the online catalogue... in most of those cases, these are either in very limited numbers or seedling (too young to be sold to regular website clients) or plants which are too large or expensive and for "collectors"

[Rowangreen]

Ah well done Kavanaru, you've solved the mystery! I had clicked they were younger/smaller versions, but hadn't noticed the young plant list, eg on species. The link appears on the left after you've gone into the larger category.

[camille1585]

Me too, I've never paid attention to that category.
As for the private customer list, I can forget that, I don't count on ever going to shop there in person, too far!

[31drew31]

Originally Posted by Mira-Claude

Mine's not on the truck either... So true and half the people I tried to buy from were disappointing...
(just to know am I the only one who reload the tracking page every five minutes or so?)

Mine is out for delivery!!! Should be here within 4 hours or so.

Originally Posted by bballr4567

So, after closer inspection, I have two pbulbs that are dead and it honestly looks like I have two different plants. (I have also been checking every chance )

I put it in a little glass ramaken for now until my mounting stuff arrives. This should give more than ample humidity for the little gal.

Nice little plant bballr!

[pasojanice]

Hi Josh,
I was just shopping and bought some glass squares which I am going to use as you did. I really like this idea and hope that this will help with the humidity. Great idea. You just put aquarium stone in the bottom and the net pot with the plant on top, right? When you water your plants in this environment, do you leave any water in the stones? Thanks in advance for putting up with my questions.
Janice

[Wynn Dee13]

Mine is out for delivery too. It should be here any minute!

[bballr4567]

Janice,

I left just enough water in there to cover the stones but to not let the roots sit in water. I will probably add just a little bit as Im going out of town for three days but I gave it a long soak so it wont dry out hopefully. I've also moved my humidifier right under the windowsill so that the humidity will stay in the lower 60s. I know its not perfect but its what I got.

[Eahonn]

Janice I water the plant separate from the tray and stones. It keeps biological material from getting in the stones and then fill the tray with a bit of fresh water just enough that it's not touching the plant or pot.

[Wynn Dee13]

Originally Posted by pasojanice

Hi Josh,
I was just shopping and bought some glass squares which I am going to use as you did. I really like this idea and hope that this will help with the humidity. Great idea. You just put aquarium stone in the bottom and the net pot with the plant on top, right? When you water your plants in this environment, do you leave any water in the stones? Thanks in advance for putting up with my questions.
Janice

Hi Janice- I think Josh is using the little dish as a mini humidity tray. You put rocks in the bottom and put a little bit of water in the dish so the water level is just below the surface of the rocks. Then you set your plant on the rocks and the water evaporates off the rocks and gives the plant humidity. You don't want the water to touch the bottom of the pot cause you don't want the plant to have wet feet. To water, I would take it out of the dish and water it then put it back in.

A Hawaiian grower told me a good way to keep humidity around the roots. He recommended putting the plant in a net pot with large bark(like how your cernua is planted) then putting the net pot inside a slightly larger square plastic pot. This allows air flow to the roots but the outside pot keeps humidity around the roots too. He told me it works so well he is repotting his whole collection into these pots. Just some suggestions if you have an issue with low humidity.

[pasojanice]

Josh and Wynn Dee,
Fantastic ideas. My plant did come in in 2 pots. One is the net pot and that is in another pot with bottom drainage! So this will work out so well. Yay! I'd like to thank both of you for all your help and all the others on this board. It's great to know that I was "sort of" on the right path. LOL My humidity in our sunroom runs about 60% or so so that will be good. I have watered my "little one" but have not taken it out, cleaned it or fussed with it yet. I will do that tomorrow to see how the root system is and then put some loose bark back in after freshening it up! Then I'll take some pictures and post them. Thanks again.
Janice