Yeah, I knew that about Oncs, but everywhere I looked they said the same thing. There isn't a lot of info on the queen, and I couldn't find a site for the jiaho company. I mean, I know they're out there in Taiwan, but they don't seem to have a web presence and my Chinese isn't good enough to make a phone call.
Fertilizer is Miracle Grow, 30-10-10, half strength for the weekly soak (in which the Queen didn't always get to participate) and when we get spikes we throw in some MG 15-30-15. Sometimes I can get my wife to splash a little dilute fish emulsion, but she resists (stinky).
I couldn't tell you foot candles of illumination, but it is mid-bright. We have a few things in spike now, have just dropped flowers on a few others (largely paphs), and there's an odorata that just opened it's bud. The lighting shifts periodically depending on needs in the display case.
This isn't the first onc. I had a Butterfly (Mendenhall (sp?)), but a house fire took that and, well, everything else, in fact. We have been building slowly back. Anyhow, small violin you needn't hear.
Any suggestions you might have to get the Queen to spike... what about temperature? We "forced" a few paphs recently by leaving them outside for a few days/nights. When we brought them back in, they promptly sent out shoots; one is a double. But, I haven't the will to try the Queen on that just yet as we only have one.
Sorry, I talk a lot. Sign of someone with nothing useful to say, I guess.
Thanks to the board for all the responses to my quandary.
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