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03-17-2015, 07:30 PM
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Recent acquisitions
Can't take credit, they were acquired last month at POE.
Sophronitella violacea
Cymbidium goeringii Tian Cao
Schoenorchis micrantha
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03-17-2015, 08:26 PM
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All of them totally awesome, I love the color of Cymbidium, so St. Patrick's Green! Love green blooms!
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03-17-2015, 09:50 PM
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Nice ones!
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03-17-2015, 11:13 PM
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This is cool!! Congrats.
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03-18-2015, 05:17 AM
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 love the colour of the first one especially. |
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03-19-2015, 02:27 PM
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Nice haul there.
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03-19-2015, 02:38 PM
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Great choices! violacea is one of my favorite orchid species and should thrive in your climate. Beautiful Schoenorchis, too, I really like its growth habit.
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03-19-2015, 03:40 PM
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Lovely selections all of them!
I have seen the first one available for sale and was considering looking into it. It's so cute!
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03-19-2015, 03:55 PM
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Story about the Schoenorchis:
I saw what looked like a white gemmata in Andy's exhibit display, but it wasn't labeled. I was going to skip Andy's entirely but I wanted the name of that white Schoenorchis. It was paniculata. He didn't bring any but he brought the micrantha. This was smaller which made it more desirable for me.
So, I walked away with the micrantha, finished with Andy's for the day. Or so I thought.
The Sophronitella is the result of OLSO's tables and racks being empty. Apparently, their stock was late in arriving. I had a short list for OLSO (no pre-order) and I wasn't coming back the next day. Andy had the Vanda I wanted but not the others. The Sophronitella was NOT on the list! Nor was the Constantia cipoensis nor the Loefgrenianthus. I worry about these last two, any info I can find says DIFFICULT. I failed to ask at the time.
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03-20-2015, 10:15 AM
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Too bad about OLSO, they import some great species that are otherwise hard to find in the US. Plants from Andy's almost always adapt to my care better and faster than recent imports, though that may mostly reflect my poor handling of bareroot imports...
I think Marni Turkel grows both Constantia and Loefgrenianthus. She usually includes culture info for anything on her flask list, and she frequents orchidsforum.com along with several other people who might grow one or both of these species.
I grow Sophronitella (now Isabelia) violacea alongside Isa. virginalis and Isa. pulchella with essentially the same culture, except violacea is bareroot on cork while the other two are on treefern or wood with live moss. Basically lots of water year-round, good air movement, light anywhere from near-full sun to deep shade, and temps ranging 35-105 F. All 3 seem to prefer cooler temps and high humidity but don't get stressed in the heat as long as I keep them well-watered and well-ventilated. For such moisture-lovers they're also very tolerant of long dry spells, esp. in cooler and shadier conditions.
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