Project 2016 B: Leptotes bicolor

[Leafmite]

The first bloom opened.

[judith_arquette]

Beautiful! <3

[wintergirl]

Very nice!! Good job!

[Pattywack]

Oooh! Another blooming, so beautiful. Nice growing.

[No-Pro-mwa]

Well done. So cute.

[pipsxlch]

I just got a small plant at last weekend's show, maybe I should join? It looks to be a large seedling size but does have a couple buds. It's in a plastic pot with spag (on the top anyhow). I'm tentatively planning on mounting it to a piece of pumice and some spag for moisture until it affixes itself/the rains start; anybody disagree with that idea? Something else probably work better? It will be grown outside hanging with my Encyclias, Schombos and other light lovers in dappled/ a couple midday hours direct sun. Watering a couple times a week until the rains start; they're pretty much daily until fall. Water once a week fall until spring growth starts.

[wintergirl]

Originally Posted by pipsxlch

I just got a small plant at last weekend's show, maybe I should join? It looks to be a large seedling size but does have a couple buds. It's in a plastic pot with spag (on the top anyhow). I'm tentatively planning on mounting it to a piece of pumice and some spag for moisture until it affixes itself/the rains start; anybody disagree with that idea? Something else probably work better? It will be grown outside hanging with my Encyclias, Schombos and other light lovers in dappled/ a couple midday hours direct sun. Watering a couple times a week until the rains start; they're pretty much daily until fall. Water once a week fall until spring growth starts.

Yes, you must join! Sounds interesting, mounted outside in Florida. I don't grow that way, so I hope others chime in.

[pipsxlch]

Here's the plant and what I've planned for it- does it look like it'd work? I'm new to this genus.



This is the grow area where it would be hung, dappled light most of the day, maybe a couple hours' worth of direct but not all in one chunk. There are assorted Encyclias, Myrmecophilias and a Brassavola David Sanders hanging and blooming here, though all could probably handle more light.


Here is a Trichocentrum Ollie Palmer mounted as I plan on doing the Leptotes. This plant was a 3/4 dead bag baby rescue- the lava rock mounts can be a pain to drill, but the plants love them. I use a pinch of spag under them when I first mount them to it. I'd like to do a lot more this way but the rocks are expensive around here.

[estación seca]

Yes, if you realize that little plant will dry out rapidly.

[wintergirl]

Yes, estacion seca is right. Your plant may dry out. I moisten mine everyday and it's inside.