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Originally Posted by silken
Thanks. How have you been growing yours till now? I think you could still hope to see spikes. I have one that just showed the spikes about a week ago. And last year several of mine bloomed in mid summer. I'm still hoping for a few more to bloom, but who knows.
Mine get quite high light-I think around 3,000fc. They are about 1 1/2 ft. away under two 4 ft HO T5's. I do have them in a little plastic greenhouse to keep humidity high, so the clear plastic may cut some light as the lights are on the outside of the little house. Here is a picture of where I keep them over winter. I have a large pan full of water on the lower shelf and a small fan running 7/24. They grow with my 2 masdies in a cool greenhouse over winter and like it in there. For summer I will lower the whole set-up to the floor and near where the cold air intake is.
Your Maui Maiden sounds gorgeous! be sure to post pictures when it opens.
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I think I need to change out their medium as it's the same as when I bought them last year. I have already replanted one of them about 3 weeks ago because the pot they were in was just rediculas and way too small for that plant. And this morning when I went down to look up the proper spelling of the new Milt. I noticed on one of the other two I have (it used to be three but one died over the winter) that the repotted one has new growth! Some very tiny little leaves popping up from the medium. I do keep them a lot moister than any of my other orchids and they are pretty low in the enclosure that I built for them. It's simulare to your little green house, only I used a cheap 4 shelf plastic Shelving unit from Home Depot and then covered it in that shrink wrap clear plastic used for sealing home windows during winter. Inside the enclosure there are three levels. There is a flap in the front to access each level. The top is not lit by anything but the morning sun. There I have plants that like to over winter. I have Geraniums that bloom all winter there. On the inside of the enclosure there is about 700 (equivelent) watts of Compact Floro. bulbs lighting all my Catts., Dendros, Phals. and Oncs. as well as the fairly new arrivails (last year and this) of the Milts. It also sits in front of a walkout basement East facing window. So the top shelf gets a ton of light. The Catts love that level. I put the Milts. on the lower shelves because of the summer heat. The lowest shelf has no lights on that level and that is where most of the Phals go.
I have a little green house like yours, but it has 4 shelves and I have yet to put it together and get some lighting in side of it.
So at the moment, that's where my Milts live. I figure it will take some time for me to fully understand how these Milts. grow best in my situation. Hopefully they can deal with it and adapt.
Oh, don't worry about the images once the Mual Malden opens, photography is one of my other passions and Milts. are so increadibly photogenic. Probably more so than any other orchid. They remind me of Pansies, only cooler!
Last years blooms.
And a NoID. It was on special because it was pretty beat up and had no name tag. I couldn't pass it up for $11
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