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02-23-2015, 08:19 PM
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Oberonia japonica
Cute micro orchid listed as cool/intermediate/warm likes to be moist and in the shade. Will try for better photos but this guy is tiny.
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02-24-2015, 11:42 PM
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Very nice! How do u grow and where?
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02-25-2015, 02:02 PM
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Very nice orchid. I would also like to know how you keep it.
Moving this to the miscellaneous forum since this is not a Pluerothallid, its belongs to Malaxideae
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02-25-2015, 03:23 PM
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I keep it indoors, I live in Seattle so it stays in intermediate temps. I am using a couple higher light orchids to give it shade from a 2 lamp t5 set up.
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02-25-2015, 03:33 PM
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Nice. Hows your humidity?
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02-25-2015, 06:42 PM
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The humidity is about 50% on a dry day, and up to 70% on rainy days- thus little guy gets a daily dunk actually, I alternate between light fertilizer (1/4 suggested dilution) and no fertilizer.
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02-26-2015, 01:17 AM
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I grow it in a cool terrarium with about 80% RH, gets a long "mist" = soaking wet every morning. Blooms quite frequently, and has rather vigorous growth. Gets fertilized with Klite once a week or so. Does not seem to like sphagnum too much. Can take quite a bit of light, i.e. at top of terrarium about a good foot away from 4-bank T5s.
Oberonia japonica is one of the relatively few species available with bi-colored flower. Really neat.
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02-26-2015, 03:28 PM
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Thanks for the advice! This guy is one of my favorites so I think I will slowly move him to more light so he can be front and center  |
02-26-2015, 09:41 PM
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Very cool!
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02-27-2015, 12:51 AM
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Love this species!
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