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R Srinivasan 04-08-2007 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by DanC (Post 1017)
Csweinfia pusilla has done awesome for me in a couple of vivariums. Forms a big grassy clump, blooms in profusion

http://www.danielconnor.com/vivarium/Csweinfia2.jpg
Whats that! Incredibly beautiful!Can someone enlighten me more about Csweinfia pusilla? To me this orchid appears to be growing rather too luxuriantly and surely smother other plants of a terrarium. I strongly reccommend slower growing and showy orchids like Sophronitis, Paphiopedilum niveum, Dendrobium jenkensii, D. crepidatum and a variety of jewel orchids for terrariums.

Tindomul 04-10-2007 02:10 PM
This is actually a miniature. I have one as well. With less luck. I almost killed it when I first got it and has bloomed for me only 1, rather recently. THe flowers lasted a good month though. It has not smothered other viv plants becuase I keep it in a small planter which is mounted to the wall on the vivarium. So it cannot take over. However, if it did, I would not be sad about it :D Supposedly its also fragrant, but I was unable to detect the smell, I think I could not get close enough to smell it though due to its placement in the viv.

Ross 04-10-2007 03:07 PM
Unfortunatly, mine isn't doing all that well. I just about killed it before I placed it in the Orchidarium so I think it is getting used to the new-found humidity. Here's hoping.

Tindomul 04-10-2007 04:04 PM
Ross, thats the exact same thing that happened to mine. When I first got it, I tried growing it in the open, and it lost its leaves like a bald man looses the hair on his head. It was scary! It took a year for it to recover. THis is a good terrarium orchid cause its the only place I can put it in where its happy as opposed to dieing.

Ross 04-10-2007 04:06 PM
Hear ya! I really think (hope) mine is getting accustomed to new (and better) conditions. Only thing is... it keeps browning leaves :( so I just keep hoping it will get better..

Tindomul 04-10-2007 04:08 PM
Mine sulked for a month or more before it got better. Stay patient.

Ross 04-10-2007 04:08 PM
Will do!

Paul 04-28-2007 10:21 PM
Adding to the list:

Enc polybulbon

Enc porpax [think this one got renamed again] --growing well but no luck blooming it yet ... any words of wisdom?

Paphinia 'Majestic' seems happy so far.

Phal 'Lovely Kid' [parishii X lobbii]

Tindomul 04-29-2007 12:35 AM
Ooh, thanks for the advice! I think I want a Phal 'Lovely Kid' :biggrin: hehe.

daemondamian 04-29-2007 01:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul (Post 31253)
Adding to the list:



Enc porpax [think this one got renamed again] --growing well but no luck blooming it yet ... any words of wisdom?

seems happy so far.

[parishii X lobbii]
Paul what size do Enc polybulbon, Paphinia 'Majestic' & Phal 'Lovely Kid' get to? I thought Paphinia's were fairly big?

The latest name I have for my Enc porpax is Neolehmannia porpax Chiruitta, common name Mexican Jellyfish.

Mine is growing well- no flowers.. I just got another division [freebie thanks to a generous friend] and I've mounted some on paperbark and a little bit on some cork. The one on paperbark is in my Jebo fishtank terrarium.


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