Can I do the gargantua?
 

You've convinced me to try another pleurothallid. A vendor (in a cool northern city) has seedling Pleurothallis gargantua in 2" pots. I know what gargantua means, and I've read IOSPE. The vendor says they're cool to warm growing but tolerate a wide range of temperatures.

I would put it into this huge hurricane vase 16" / 40cm tall. Roxie weighs 21 pounds / almost 10kg. My bathrooms have skylights. Their air conditioning vents can't be closed, so they are the coolest rooms in my house. They probably have night temperatures in the summer into the 70s F / 21-26C, and upper 80s F / 32C in the day. Winters are very much cooler, since I don't use much heat. Nights would often be in the 50s F / 10-15C.

Do people think this is doable? Thanks.

I'm not sure Roxie would fit in the hurricane 😂-sorry can't help with the cultural question.

Ahh, what a cute dog💓
Adorable😍


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I can see Roxie is used to do some modelling.:biggrin:

I can't help you either with the culture but my interpretation of IOSPE is based on the habitat elevation. IOSPE says it lives "...at elevations around 1500 to 2500 meters...". At these altitudes, the only possible temp high range is between day and night.
My intuition says you can do it, as long as you don't let temp go too high.

Ah, she's so cute.

I don't know anything about this guy except what I just googled, but...

I believe anybody can grow anything within reason. It depends how bad you want it and how much of your life you are willing to devote to making it happy :biggrin:

I do know one thing, you can't grow it if you don't buy it... then again, you can't kill it if you don't buy it either :rofl:

My newbie, addicted self encourages you to buy it and try. Unless it's really expensive... then maybe a cheaper pleuro to start with.

Estacion seca I have the gargantua from the same vendor and it is doing really well and so far has been happy. I keep it in a bathroom with a warm mist humidifier. They are really small seedling the size of a dime. I googled it and the leaves get the size of a car side view mirror all I could think of at the time. So I have a ways to go before I see any blooms. Keep in mind they do arrive the size of miniatures but are not.


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I've read more about Pleurothallis gargantua. Despite this vendor saying it's temperature-tolerant, almost everybody else says it's cold to cool growing. I'm going to keep looking for another Pleurothallis that likes warm temperatures.