Anyone growing Sophronitis mantiqueirae?
 

Tips are welcome, especially regarding higher temperatures.

Thanks

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Bump.

Edit: Later.

Did you see this? I'm a member, so I don't know whether it is accessible to non-members.

American Orchid Society: The Culture of Brazilian Sophronitis

...Sophronitis mantiqueira (...named after the Brazilian chain of mountains), however, occur[s] at altitudes ranging from 1,800 to 2,300 meters. Cultivating [this] species in regions with altitudes around 1,000 m is possible, but the plants suffer from the environmental changes. They often wrinkle and decline under these conditions, flowering less and less each year. Moving plants of [this] species to even warmer regions (at lower altitudes) makes them "dwarfs" which soon die.

There is more, about relative humidity, which the article suggests should never go under 70%. The plants are found only in areas with a dense carpet of tank bromeliads on the forest floor, keeping relative humidity extremely high.

The article appears to have been manually retyped for the Web page, and has a lot of what I think are typographical errors. So be careful.

ES, I haven't noticed before your reply.
It seems my 1st main problem with this species is humidity. The 2nd is day summer temps.

I was thinking about getting one, today I sent an e-mail asking if there's any available, but after reading the AOS article, and also considering the plant price, I'm having second thoughts about it.

Get an Aporocactus. They're easy to grow in hanging baskets and have brilliant flowers.

They are beautiful indeed. If I find one of these I'll pick it, as well as a second one for my daugther (she loves succulents and similar).

That is a pretty cool cacti. :)

If I like an orchid/plant that I absolutely cannot grow in my conditions without extreme difficulty, I often look for another orchid/plant that has the same traits that I like in the first but that will fit my conditions. Have you ever seen Phragmipedium besseae? It has a brightly colored flower but will easily grow in intermediate conditions. Soph cernua is a cute, heat-tolerant orchid, too, with bright flowers.