Masdevallia amabilis

[Orchidgirl83]

Gorgeous flower!

[GardenTheater]

Beautiful color and stripes! Glad it finally decided to put on a good show for you.

[RosieC]

Thanks everyone.

Since opening this guy seems to always have at least one flower open. Still one there, not sure if it's a new one to replace this or still the same one. Need to have a closer look to work that out.

[annabanana1987]

GREAT job your although it took longer to flower again im sure your over the moon with this! September-january ♥♡ wow

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[RosieC]

Thanks Anna, it's actually September-April now

[Tindomul]

Wow!!! Wow!!!! Wow!!!!! Just amazing. The colour is fantastic in the truest sense of the word. What are you conditions, temps and humidity wise?

[RosieC]

It's kept in my greenhouse. I try and keep humidity up but have no misting system or anything so it goes all over the place, highest when it's high outside of course. Luckily the UK is a damp country but I don't keep it massively humid in there.

Temps wise I only try and heat the greenhouse to protect from frost. I aim to not let it fall below 5C/41F, it occasionally does go lower but is probably averaging about 8C/46F at this time of year with higher and lower peeks depending on the weather.

In the summer it get's whatever the weather is here in the UK, with the door left open constantly once the outside temps are guaranteed not to drop too low. It's a small 6'x6' greehouse so the door open and the auto opening window half way along keep it pretty much level with what's outside. We don't have massively hot weather here in the UK, generally being between 15C/59F - 25C/77F, very unusual to reach 30C/86F though it does on occasion.

I grow all masdies in clay pots in moss and put clay trays full of lecca under them, with the pot sitting on a clay stand. The trays are filled with water so the pot just has it's base in the water at it's fullest. The clay must be porous (some frost resistant ones look like they should be but aren't). The pot is then always damp and the moss never fully dries and so the evaporation from all that clay and lecca has a cooling effect... the roots love it!



Oh... and this orchid has hardly had a moment out of flower since it started in September 2013, sometimes it's got down to just a bud waiting to open, but often it's had several flowers at once. I love it

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[Tindomul]

Thats an awesome climate. It sounds similar to what you get in the southern Appalachians in the US, in a normal year that is. Thanks for the awesome answer, I LOVE YOUR ORCHID!

[Paphy]

Originally Posted by RosieC

I grow all masdies in clay pots in moss and put clay trays full of lecca under them, with the pot sitting on a clay stand. The trays are filled with water so the pot just has it's base in the water at it's fullest.

Hi Rosie. New site member here. I am new to growing Masde's and brought up your old thread here during a search for their culture. Would you happen to have a pic showing your 'tray/leca setup'? I'm not sure what you mean by the 'pot sitting on a clay stand'.

I also just had my first Masde bloom. Also amabilis! :big grin: I understand there are two color varieties of this species? There's two shown right at top of page here: Masdevallia

A violet/fushia and red/magenta. Yours looks like it may be the violet/fushia? Hard to tell from monitor to monitor.. Mine seems to be a version kind of in the middle of both colors. Pic below: