Personally I can't imagine a terrarium setup without jewel orchids.

I'm surprised so few have actually been mentioned here.

Anoectochilus Brevilabris
Anoectochilus Reinwardtii
Anoectochilus Lowii
Anoectochilus Formosanus
Anoectochilus Roxburghii
Anoectochilus Geniculatus
Anoectochilus Chapaensis
Dossinia Marmorata var. Dayii
Goodyera Pusilla
Goodyera Schlectendaliana
Goodyera Hispida
Goodyera Velutina (doesn't hold up under frogs though)
Ludisia Discolor Alba
Ludisia Discolor
Ludisia Dawsoniana
Ludisia Discolor Negra

Ludisia Discolor Negra Ambrosia (Almost non existant now) a hybrid from Hoosier Orchids.

Macodes Petola
Macodes Sanderiana

And not to mention dozens of really stunning hybrids that are out there like Macodes Sanderiana x Ludisia Discolor Alba crosses.

Or Ludisia Lightning which is Discolor x Discolor Alba

Dreamcatchers, Charlotte's Web and a lot more.

Some of these literally take over all available soil space in a terrarium, I've pulled Sanderiana with 10" roots before.

I got hooked about 2 years ago on Jewels, and now have thousands of them. I've got other orchids as well, but these are definitely my favorite terrarium jewels.

It would be really handy if this thread were summarised and then the info put into a post on the first page, with species split up by temperature/humidity/size. (i.e. "steamy rainforest" "cloud forest" etc. - characterise by expected min/max and expected diurnal temperature swings). Probably worth pointing out light requirements too?

:)

How does root hormone work on orchids?

Great thread, but would LOVE a summary as discus mentioned!

Small pleurothallids do well, like Trisetella, most of them like cool to intermediate temps with high humidity and moderate light.

WEELLLLLL, if no one else will volunteer, I will try to work up a list of the orchids listed in this thread. Yes, I am a "list making" type of person - I actually like doing such. But, be patient - however, I will start on it tonight!
I just purchased Dyakia hendersoniana, Renanthera imschootiana and Aerangis luteo-alba to place in a terrarium, as I believe they all take about the same culture and temps. I already have a nice clump of Sophronitis coccinea, and was going to add some starts in it also. They will all be mounted on cork bark or small branches - not sure about the bottom dwellers yet, but that is the overall plan.
I have seen that Dyakia has been successful in some other member's terraiums, but has anyone tried any of the other species I mentioned?
Thanks!

Very good information. Thank you


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Last year, I bought a Dendrobium lawesii at a show. It bloomed that summer, but it continued to shrivel up, no matter how much I watered it outside. It was a rainy summer, too, so I don't know how it wasn't getting enough moisture. Regardless, it wasn't happy. It was putting out new growth, but the growth was smaller and more spindly. It was getting a nice red from good light exposure, but nothing was burning, so it was happy with the light it was getting.

When I brought it inside for the winter, it still didn't turn around much, so after finishing my vivarium, I placed it, bareroot, in the back of the tank, just to see how it would respond. Slowly, it started putting out new roots, and two tiny keikis. It was going too slowly, though, so I moved it, and wrapped the old canes in sphagnum and mounted it, keikis facing up, on a cork log that sits horizontally in the viv.

They are taking off! They have almost doubled in size since I did that maybe a month ago, and the baby canes are a nice magenta/burgundy color. The leaves are a solid mid-green, and they look like they're beginning to plump up. The viv runs at 90% humidity currently, and hovers around 78 dF. I use a pair of T5 bulbs about 8" from the glass at the top, and the keikis are maybe 18-20" from the lights. I have not yet installed fans for air circulation, but that's next on my agenda. So far, so good!

I also have a Columnia Firebird growing in the substrate, and it looks like it is about to bloom soon. The Bulbophyllum medusae x frostii (which I purchased by mistake) is mounted to the background, and it's putting out new roots and what looks like a new pseudobulb. My Leptotes bicolor (a common viv orchid) is very happy living bareroot on a cork log, too. There are lots of other things in there, but most are Neoregelias, which are well known viv choices. I don't know if the D. lawesii had been tried before, so I figured I would mention how it's doing. :)

These are my two Dendrobium lawesii keikis.

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