I bought this little fellow off eBay in July 2013. It was just finishing flowering when I got it, and sat more or less dormant for a few months whilst it adjusted to my glasshouse.
In the last three months it has taken right off!. Just as our summer started to ease it threw out two spikes, and when they were about half-way out it threw out another 2 spikes. The first two spikes have just bloomed in the last few days, and at least two more to come. An absolute cracker of a miniature, and one of my favourite species of all time. Just a joy to own, and pretty tolerant of a wide range of setups in my experience.
Taken last week, just as the buds were about to open. Shows the other two spikes growing making 4 in total
A shot of the open flowers.
The best close up I could get of the flower. It's a poor quality photo - but the best I could manage with my phones' camera and the tiny blossoms.
I grow this Psygmorchis in my glasshouse, mounted, up with my vandas. It gets very high light, (it's roughly 20 centimetres from the glass), warm-to-hot temps, 80-90% humidity, and water once a day in spring/autumn, and twice a day in summer. Very weak fertiliser every other watering.
Psygmorchis pusilla
Linear Mode
