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Originally Posted by Angurek
Nice pescoroid, King. I haven't tried this genus yet, but I'd assume that they're as complicated to grow as their relatives.  |
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.
Stenia vasquezii
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