Orchid growing area under mango tree...
Hello, all! I wanted to share my growing area with you and solicit any feedback you may have. I know it is hard to give feedback when there is one area with many types of orchids, but I welcome any comments or suggestions.
Live in Coral Springs, FL (Broward county). The tree is a rather large mango tree. The plants on the east side get morning sun and the west side gets dappled afternoon sun. Everything else gets dappled light at some point, is in bright shade, or medium shade. (I'm still working on identifying the intensity of the shade/sun bit.) Anything closer to the trunk, of course, is in deeper shade. I keep my phals there and on the northern branches.
There is a lot of air movement as we live on a canal, so there has been an almost constant breeze. Maybe too much?
Everything in the area gets watered every other day with the bare-root vandas getting watered daily as it is bone dry by the evening after a morning watering. Probably because of the air flow? Even the phals, with moss mixed into bark, get watered every other day. Is this normal and ok?
I don't have a humidity checker thing, but with the canal there and the fact that I wet the grass under the tree every morning, I think there is enough humidity.
There is a mixture of dendrobium (hard cand and soft cane), catts, phalaenopsis, vanda, Grammatophyllum, epidendrum, and some yet-unidentified rescues.
These pics were taken around 11:00am.
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