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Originally Posted by neophyte
Thanks! Also, what temps are you keeping your S. ceciliae at? Some websites say it's a cool grower; others same cool to intermediate... I really hope I can keep this little one alive!
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Most welcome neo. During the 'winter' time here - in my tropical area ---- the average might be say 13 degrees C. Some nights can get lower ----- but no problem for the ceciliae. During the hot times of the year --- we can get up to 40 deg C or a bit more ...... which doesn't happen all that often. Some site reckons that the temperature shouldn't exceed 34 degrees C.
But what I can say is ----- I've had summer morning sun blazing down directly on these plants - and it really does get quite warm here, and they handle it easily. They can be pretty tough actually. What I do here is --- I water early in the morning heavily the outskirts of the pot (my scoria filled pot) --- and I only spray ever so slightly --- a very very tiny bit of water to just ever so slightly wet the roots closer up to the orchid. And they just do fine. Even small baby ones do well in the direct morning sun here. They just grow little chubby roots - which just get longer and longer, working their way out - or even down into the scoria.
I also grow Sarco. roseus --- which people once placed into the Sarco. ceciliae category ..... calling it var. roseus. But it turns out that Sarco. roseus has a couple of unmistakably different features --- one of them being the lip. The ceciliae has a couple of gaps toward each side at the front of the lip - giving the impression of incisors. The roseus doesn't have that ----- so roseus has a lip that is more like a slipper orchid. But pretty much the same growing conditions as for ceciliae.
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