neofinitia from SB orchid show (for leslie)

[u bada]

I love looking at en situ pics but in that switch from wild to cultivation there's always something missing I think, but certainly gives insight for sure... (I can give you endless examples of other plants besides orchids but won't bore you at moment, the adaptability of plant genetics it's baffling to me, when considering how certain landscape used plants have shown complete weed like capabilities when placed in localities that they've became invasive where conditions are actually more variable than native habitat. )

for instance, in pictures i see a lot of vertical growing neos as well as probably more side facing neos... they all look happy... then you have to theoretically factor in more winds in the wild than in a home, etc. and the photographers in the wild only shoot hapy groups of plants... so you'll have to fill in, estacion, exactly what you saw...

Saw a lot of new roots forming on my remaining one! (i soaked it over night the other night...)

thanks again leslie, one more question how adaptable have you found them to be to light? Mine had two spikes when I grow it under direct morning light in fall/winter spring, but then light started to burn it at one point and have been keeping it between catt and phal light and I only get 1x spike a year. I almost rather just see leaves and roots myself, so I'm guessing it would be pretty ok without higher light. at this point I only see one flower spike nubbin that it formed from last year so I did trying putting it in higher light but just moved it to shadier spot now that the sun has already started burning things over here...

[Leslie]

I find that after growing neos for 10 years in Toronto, I encountered burning of leaves only once. It happened here under south windows (with 40% blue tint shade) when we had a very cloudy winter (one month of no sun) and the sudden sunny days in March scorched a few of the tigers, fukurins and amami neos. It happened because they were not given adjustment period to light. If you give then a gradual increase in light (as when you bring them outside to higher light), they will adapt. As long as I keep that in mind, they have since never burnt.

Neos can tolerate a lot of light except the white tigers and white fukurins (the white part of leaves have no tan protection and will burn under high light if too warm). But they can grow in medium light (best) and low light (slow). I've seen neos grown in northeast windows and outside in trees (shade from mid-day sun). It's a matter of matter sure other parameters like cooling, watering and humidity are in balance.

I also rotate the white tigers with low light for a week (in shade) every 3rd week to darken the green parts to accentuate the contrast with the white part. Yellow tigers I grow in the highest light (almost Vanda light) to get the full bright yellow...


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