Humidity levels and wrinkled leaves
I have an Odontocidium Succubus 'Dragon Dreck' that I converted to S/H back in December and so far it seems to be happy. It's got 2 new pbulbs, one of which is plumping up quite nicely. The other one is still relatively new. Back in March I noticed that a few of the newer leaves were a bit wrinkled, so I began to water more frequently - upped it from 2x a week to 3x a week - and things appeared to be ok.
However, the heat is upon us in Dallas and the room in which I grow this little guy maxes out around 84 degrees F in the afternoon with 58-60% humidity. I'm still watering 3x a week and I mist the top layer every morning, but I'm still noticing some wrinkling on one of the new leaves...argh!
Questions:
1. Do I need to water more frequently?
2. Should I increase the humidity? What is ideal humidity?
3. Do wrinkled leaves "hurt" the plant or it is more of an "aesthetic" thing?
4. Can I grow this orchid outside? (Dallas gets into the 90s in the summer and sometimes triple digits with 50-60% humidity.)
Sorry for the long post!
MH
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