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Originally Posted by silken
Odtna. Papageno is a complex hybrid but has quite a bit of Miltoniopsis vexillaria and Odontoglossum alexandrae. Both are not real heat lovers and prefer temps in the 70's to low 80's by day and 60's or 50's at night. But OrchidWiz says the hybrid itself can tolerate cool or warm temps. Often hybrids are much more temperature and light tolerant than their species relatives. This is a medium light plant but when good humidity and breezes are provided it can adapt to more light and heat.
Most of these hybrids can take warmer temps so long as they can cool off a bit at night.
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Thanks everyone. I always thought miltonias were more warm loving-- but okay. It looks like I might have to have fans to cool it in the summer. It is loving fall here, and I have a spike now. Here it is outside. I divided it into one large plant and one small. It still has shriveled bulbs and accordion leaves from ill treatment in the past. I think that the greenhouse treated it more like a thick rooted oncidium than a thin rooted one because they did not water it much. In fact, I think it had been left to die. It has thin strap like leaves that sun burn easily, and thin roots, so yes, it needs frequent watering. It is outside in a shady spot which is also cool, but comes inside later on. Any way it is going nicely, the new pseudo bulbs are nice and plump and it has a flower spike as I mentioned before, but it is very small and I do not know if it will survive.
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