Pleurothallis prolifera

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

I just got this plant in the mail today, so the blooms are not my doing.

However,...I'm not posting this because of its flowers. Hehehe...

Nope, I'm posting this because of a little trial I'm running on this singular plant. Many, many people grow this orchid like an epiphyte, but check this out - it is actually a lithophytic Pleurothallis!!!

When it came in the mail, the plant had moss all around the roots. And sure enough, when I peeled off the moss, there were hardly any living roots on the plant at all. The saving grace for this little guy is that it has a new shoot coming along.

I'm attempting to grow this orchid the way it was supposed to grow in the wild - on rocks, (specifically, granites). I'm curious how it'll do in the long run.

In essence, this thread is a thread about saving a Pleurothallis, in a similar vein to those threads about saving Phals.

I hope it works out.