Stenia vasquezii
 

Finally! I got this plant to do what it's supposed to do. :)

After repeated failed attempts and frustration, there is a great sense of accomplishment knowing that I was able to solve this long standing puzzle.

It's got a fruity fragrance - kinda like apricots.

ooo - lovely! good growing!

Nice pescoroid, King. I haven't tried this genus yet, but I'd assume that they're as complicated to grow as their relatives. :)

Beautiful. What alliance is this one in?

Great growing and thanks for sharing.

-J

Thank you, Carl. :)

Ironically, they're not terribly complicated to grow actually. A little, but not a lot.

It was more complicated to figure out what made the roots go out all the time. There was some difficultly in finding out why the leaves brown from the tips and continued to die back. It was frustrating to solve the issue of why the leaves constantly turned yellow and fell off. But once I found out why, they took off.

Learning to grow these made growing other Pescatoroids in my collection easier to grow.

I mostly attribute the find to 2 major things:

1. Finding out how to grow Chaubardia heteroclita successfully. (Yes, even these were not as difficult to get going as Stenia vasquezii was.)

2. Finding out the rain patterns of where Stenia vasquezii were collected from in the wild. (This was by far the most frustrating because habitat information was incredibly sparse, vague, and somewhat unreliable.)

The greatest difficulty in growing these was that they tended to be more sensitive and less forgiving plants, than say, a Cattleya or a non-rambling Maxillaria sp. with pseudobulbs would be.

Very cool :greenthumb:

That's so pretty! worth waiting for ,congrats:biggrin:

Late reply. Been busy, but...

Thanks! :)