Sophronitis cernua (Project 14 - Spring 2012)

[Wynn Dee13]

I was wondering if you guys are getting a mounted cernua or a potted one? I have heard they do best mounted but I'm a little worried about humidity in the winter. Thanks!

[Paul Mc]

I'm hoping for mounting when I get mine and am thinking about doing it on an upside down clay pot.

[Mira-Claude]

I am so ordering the little cernua var mineira! Thank you again Camille!

[sithwitch]

Well, am slightly shy about posting the first picture, but I had this lovely box waiting for me when I came back from work yesterday
I'd ordered the soph before the last poll because I found it too cute to resist and am glad that it came in great conditions from Hawaiian Botanicals! Great enough that it might be hard to resist that bulb. bicolor and those hardy cypripediums...(figure if I am running out of space inside, I can always get some for outside too )

Gave it a nice soak with a little MSU and some SuperThrive and a nice botani wipe to the leaves. Healthy roots go right through the mount and poke out midway on the sides. No new leads that I can see. Got it in the shade now but will move it closer to the light in the next few days

[Mira-Claude]

Melanie, does it arrive on a mount or we have t mount it?

[bballr4567]

J&L sell it in a net pot so it shouldn't be a hard transfer to a mount for the plant. I'm going to mount mine.

[sithwitch]

Originally Posted by Mira-Claude

Melanie, does it arrive on a mount or we have t mount it?

If you're ordering from Hawaiian Botanicals, mine arrived mounted and well established on the mount. They don't seem to offer the cernuas potted. I'd been planning on potting it should it arrive loose on it, but it seems to have a very happy grip on its tree fern right now and I wouldn't begin to know how to move it from there!

It just got added to my morning soaking list (currently 2 vandas, one haraella retrocalla, one den. rigidum and one angcm. distichum)

[Mira-Claude]

I hate the smell of Haraella retrocala.... But my roommates love the plant... I just wanted to make sure because I currently own no mounts. So if it came without it I would have went and bought a small terracotta pot in the mean time!
Thank you Melanie!

[sithwitch]

My haraella only has a very light fragrance. I literally have to stick the flower whole into one nostril to detect the "lemony" part I had another one that bloomed itself to death within 6 months that smelled like overheated electrical wiring...
And of course I just got my den. rigidum last month and the flowers smell like battery acid! I hope that next year the scent will be different if I succeed in making it bloom in my conditions!

And now, to try and find another way to position my light so I can fit my new plants in and hang my mounted ones properly... Oh why did that catt have to smell so damn good? And why did I HAVE to try a miltoniopsis? And why do I want an angcm. bosseri?

[Mira-Claude]

I often ask myself the same question with my poorly oriented window... But then again everything grows so why not?
This summer I WILL HAVE to buy a new shelf!
As for the smell of her Haraella retrocala I think it smells of wet dirty socks.
Just like I think venosa smells like ham...