Angraecum didieri

[katsucats]

Just flowered a couple days ago. I was growing it in leca and a clay pot, but the plant keeps falling over whenever I watered it since more than half the roots are aerial, so I decided the mount on cork bark (this was after flower already formed).

Smells like licorice or root beer if you put your nose right up to it.

[bellini girl]

Beautiful. Plants looks very healthy. obviously you're meeting its cultural needs. Way to grow

[nenella]

Very nice! lovely green root tips!

[Kevinator]

Nice plant overall. It's soooooo tiny 0_0!

[WhiteRabbit]

Beautiful!

[GardenTheater]

Beautiful. Looks great on the new mount.

[Tindomul]

Thanks for the story, I was actually considering getting a new one (my old one died a long time ago sans flowers (ever)), and putting it in semi-hydroponics. I can't keep up with its needs mounted. Nice flower, congrats.

[katsucats]

You could semi-hydro this if there were some way to hold it upright, maybe tie it against the pot; or better, mount it to a stick and let it sit half submerged in LECA.

I've been playing around with sphagnum moss ever since I started mounting. When I grew orchids in pots, any amount of sphagnum would seem to induce rot even with LECA substrate, clay pots, and dry So. Cal climate. I couldn't understand how other people got it going. But with mounts, a little big of sphagnum dry up in minutes or hours.



The thing I found about this didieri is even though all the cultures seemed to specify low to medium light, I could put it up against an open west window with the screen at 3000-4000 fc and the roots will start growing. Otherwise, it wouldn't even budge.