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Originally Posted by Pattywack
Your pictures are wonderful! I have followed this post and been so envious of your night stand lantern. It's just awesome and doing well again. I have the Platystele stenostachya and mine is much smaller, probably much younger. I found mine at J&L and it just blooms its tiny head off. It now is growing many new leaves and I hope it will be as full as yours. I've had it for a few months. I recently bought three new ones from Andy's, love his plants, one of these is a Stelis hirtzii and it has very small, short leaves. They are a blue green color. It is in spike now with tiny tiny reddish blooms on a fairly long spike, maybe three inches. It is mounted and would be beautiful in your lantern. I love the mosses too. Nice job keeping this going. I love it.
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Thank you!
I was honestly not expecting such a full plant from Andy's. Such a great surprise.
Seattleorchid has stenostachya with a red lip!
I do love stelis. I might look into it.
I'm trying to save orchids for my newest setup though, so a future stelis might go into that.
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Originally Posted by PhytoDude
I agree completely with Pattywhack! She turned me on to this thread, and I've been addicted to it ever since! I've seen her chids first hand and she should be posting pics! (Hint hint Pattywhack) I love what you've done here Ord, it's absolutely wonderful! Pics look great, keep 'em coming!
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I'm happy you like it. Sometimes I feel like I post too many updates.
Pattywhack should post some photos!
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Originally Posted by DeaC
Foto #1...I feel like a voyeur in a secret garden that's just been discovered-a garden of eden for those magnificent plants.So very well done!
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I love the sun in the tank. I think it makes it feel rather romantic. I was watching it the other day, and it occurred to me I've never shared that moment.
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Originally Posted by Kevinator
This is one of the most beautiful and creative ideas for a terrarium that I have ever seen. I'm still in the process of planning mine. by the way, how did you care for your Aerangis punctata the last time you had one? I'm considering about getting one but I'm a little scared of my humidity (30-50%, around 30 in the summer). I remember going to Andy's and asking them about these and saw a specimen around 3 inches in height and width that was in bud. "Oh those are our show plants. These are the ones that are on sale". My guide then directed me to a line of mounts with plants that had two leaves each and were smaller than my thumbnail. :P
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Thanks! That's really nice to hear. I spend a decent amount of time staring at beautiful terrarium, wondering how the heck people reach perfection so easily.
I killed the one last time. So my care advice is probably not the best.
I had it mounted on cork, in another similar, but larger lantern. So high humidity. I wouldn't let it dip below 50 often. I watered almost every other day. I let it dry lightly in between watering.
It was growing nicely until I installed a fan.
All the orchids I had in that tank really mentioned their love of decent airflow online. So I installed a tiny computer fan.
Big mistake. Everything desiccated and died. Even a humidifier couldn't save them from what I'd done.
Lol! I dream of that. This current punctata only has two roots though so I'm fairly certain I'll still kill it. I'm also worried about my general lack of airflow. Aerangis are apparently picky about that
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Originally Posted by AnonYMouse
I noticed a few weeks ago that Andy's has a L. telipogoniflora. I don't know where he gets his.
Another source is Marni Turkel on ebay but she only offers it a couple of times a year and the bidding gets pricy (plants are easily 3x the size of everyone elses).
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I noticed that too. Maybe I should shoot him an email.
However I've spoken to a few people who have gotten theirs from both ecuagenera and Seattleorchid. And no one else encounters that problem.
Hmm...
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