Few mini's in bloom plus new small terrarium setup.

[cjliu73]

So cute!! very nice!

[Optimist]

Tommymiami, I have about 30 big orchids, but I am starting Graduate school in August, and have decided to stop collecting big plants for a few years. I am really thinking of beginning to collect intermediate miniatures to grow in terreriums. That was what drew me to orchids in the first place. Do you have any suggestions? Your displays have really inspired me. Thank you!

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Optimist, thanks. I find them somehow "easy" to grow in many different small setups, and most of them seems to work perfect, my best is definitely hygrolon cylinder, but even the small glass/wood vivarium works magic and intermediate plants are spiking in it. I did recently create new small square setup with one hygrolon wall that I will mount cool - intermediate Lepanthes plants soon, there is just aquarium gravel on the bottom, life mosses on the gravel, my Dendro cuthbertsonii is in this setup too. I just love to play with these mini habitats and it seems like most miniatures love it. I use only LED aquarium lights (Amazon) and only aquarium clip fans (ebay).

[lotis146]

Very cool indeed!! This definitely inspires! I have now three minis (not including my mini Phal because it seems big compared to the Mediocalcar, Tolumnia, & Ponerorchis I have) they're making me nervous! I'm not sure I'm doing so well with the Tolumnia lucayana to be honest... But all your setups look great especially the bulb and have my mind going a bit!

thanks for sharing!

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Tolumnia lucayana should be grown drier, but it should be kept moderately humid. Port Lucaya, Grand Bahamas is humid by default from being an island surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, but it is not wet. The trees do not have moss growing on them.

I've been there while I was filming Pirates of the Caribbean 3. That's what the climate is, intermediate to warm, (55 F - 95 F), and moderately humid. It doesn't rain that often there. When it does rain, it can pour, but that's only when the hurricanes start hitting the place, (during the summer months - which was when we stopped filming before picking the project back up around late winter to early spring, so we could avoid the hurricanes). The humidity is just right. When you get out of the shower, you feel like you've taken a shower. It is a refreshing and comfortable type of humidity, if that makes sense. A humidity level of 50% - 70% is plenty good for it.

The forests are small and scrubby because the trees are short and the branches of the trees are not really terribly lush, (let's just describe the trees as moderately lush with tons of epiphytic bromeliads growing on them). That's how this orchid is able to receive a good amount of light even though it's growing on a tree.

[Froggle]

Wish I could see the pictures! for some reason I can't unfortunately

[RosieC]

This is a really old thread. Tommy might have limited storage space for pictures so after a thread is old remove the old pictures. Not sure but that's my guess.

[Froggle]

Ahh thanks Rosie

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Originally Posted by RosieC

This is a really old thread. Tommy might have limited storage space for pictures so after a thread is old remove the old pictures. Not sure but that's my guess.

Thanks Rosie, and yes, probably this is what happened, I was maxed up so I was deleting older pictures some days ago :-)