Few mini's in bloom plus new small terrarium setup.
 

Ok, here is the newest re-done small wood/glass terrarium setup, changed it to Lepanthopsis astrophora heaven mostly, with one Haraella retrocalla and one Scaphosepalum rapax. Both Lepanthopsis and Scaphosepalum is bloominh now, and Haraella has one spike about to open and another one growing (it is in bloom pretty much for last 3 months:-)) Still kept small section of life sphagnum moss in. And one of my glass orbs was changed to Lepanthopsis house as well (I could not resist resent sale from one of the vendors for these little guys:-)

Scaphosepalum rapax and microdactylum

Cool. It all looks beautiful. And nice setup.

Very cool!

Many thanks, mini's are fun:-) They do not take space and you can do so many things with them.

This looks so cool & gives me a lot of ideas for a similar terrarium, just with a glass base, I got some time ago & have been waiting for inspiration to guide me to do something with :-D

Awesome! Looks really good!

That is so beautiful :)
Its like a mini magic garden - are you sure there are no fairies in there!!!!!

excellent design of your wardian case....and beautiful plants too! good job!

Many thanks to everyone! And no, no fairies yet:-)

Both displays look amazing! Nice blooms. The fairies disappear when they see a camera.

Really cool! What lovely cute flowers :)

:-)

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Many thanks Rosie, yes, I do love mini's:-)

That is really very nice, Tommy.

many thanks Ron, actually all my mini babies are making me happy at this time, astrophoras are nearly all spiking, haraella's are in spike and bloom for past 2 months, Bulbo rosary beads is spiking with many spikes for last 2 weeks and newly added masdevallia erinacea that I mounted last week showed me 3 spikes today, can't be happier! :-)

Great set up
 

Great set up TommiMiami

Where did you find the glass orb? Put a mini red in there and it would be cool Christmas decoration.

Sharry, CB2 - Modern Furniture and Home Decor sells them, and many other cool glass things, in great price. If you have store close to you, go there, if no, online order. I have many, in 3 different shapes and sizes:-) I did actually last year Xmas giving with these glass orbs with succulents, sand, stones, shells and moss inside, and everyone was on the cloud 9! This year I am planning to give few with the miniatures like Lepanthopsis that seems to love it in this set up!

Thanks for the tip. With the open side they look to better ventilated (and easier to plant!) than some other glass orbs that I've seen.

Yes, and this one has even 2 smaller holes on the top on each side, so the air movement is definitely better with this one!

So cute!! very nice!

Tommymiami, I have about 30 big orchids, but I am starting Graduate school in August, and have decided to stop collecting big plants for a few years. I am really thinking of beginning to collect intermediate miniatures to grow in terreriums. That was what drew me to orchids in the first place. Do you have any suggestions? Your displays have really inspired me. Thank you!

Optimist, thanks. I find them somehow "easy" to grow in many different small setups, and most of them seems to work perfect, my best is definitely hygrolon cylinder, but even the small glass/wood vivarium works magic and intermediate plants are spiking in it. I did recently create new small square setup with one hygrolon wall that I will mount cool - intermediate Lepanthes plants soon, there is just aquarium gravel on the bottom, life mosses on the gravel, my Dendro cuthbertsonii is in this setup too. I just love to play with these mini habitats and it seems like most miniatures love it. I use only LED aquarium lights (Amazon) and only aquarium clip fans (ebay).

Very cool indeed!! This definitely inspires! I have now three minis (not including my mini Phal because it seems big compared to the Mediocalcar, Tolumnia, & Ponerorchis I have) they're making me nervous! I'm not sure I'm doing so well with the Tolumnia lucayana to be honest... :( But all your setups look great especially the bulb and have my mind going a bit!

thanks for sharing!

Tolumnia lucayana should be grown drier, but it should be kept moderately humid. Port Lucaya, Grand Bahamas is humid by default from being an island surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, but it is not wet. The trees do not have moss growing on them.

I've been there while I was filming Pirates of the Caribbean 3. That's what the climate is, intermediate to warm, (55 F - 95 F), and moderately humid. It doesn't rain that often there. When it does rain, it can pour, but that's only when the hurricanes start hitting the place, (during the summer months - which was when we stopped filming before picking the project back up around late winter to early spring, so we could avoid the hurricanes). The humidity is just right. When you get out of the shower, you feel like you've taken a shower. It is a refreshing and comfortable type of humidity, if that makes sense. A humidity level of 50% - 70% is plenty good for it.

The forests are small and scrubby because the trees are short and the branches of the trees are not really terribly lush, (let's just describe the trees as moderately lush with tons of epiphytic bromeliads growing on them). That's how this orchid is able to receive a good amount of light even though it's growing on a tree.

Wish I could see the pictures! for some reason I can't unfortunately :(

This is a really old thread. Tommy might have limited storage space for pictures so after a thread is old remove the old pictures. Not sure but that's my guess.

Ahh thanks Rosie

Thanks Rosie, and yes, probably this is what happened, I was maxed up so I was deleting older pictures some days ago :-)