Dendrophylax fawcetti

[JennS]

Wow! What a gorgeous flower. Can you tell us about your culture? It is sure beautiful!

[isurus79]

Originally Posted by JennS

Wow! What a gorgeous flower. Can you tell us about your culture? It is sure beautiful!

Thanks! I grow this one in medium bright Catt light and it gets watered every day. It has a bag of bunny poo that is substituting as fertilizer during the winter season. Since I fertilize all my plants at the same time no matter what, any plant that is actively growing during the winter months (ie. the non fertilizing months) gets one of these bags as a temporary stopgap.

I have another funalis that is blooming right now and I grow it in much lower light because it kept burning next to its counterpart whose flowers are shown in this post. It gets low Phal light and seems to be growing at the same rate as the one that gets medium Catt light. Must be a species that can take variable conditions. The one with low Phal light I got from H&R and they grow them in Phal light.

The other plant (the one shown in this post) was obtained as a gift from another grower in Hawaii and they had brighter conditions than that given at H&R.

Confused yet?? Sorry!! Let me know if this makes sense!!

[JennS]

Yes, it does make sense. I was most interested in the lighting and how often you water them. I can believe they are so varied, many of my own plants do completely different things then my firends a couple of blocks away. That is part of the mystique of orchids... ANyway, thanks for sharing that with me, and I would love to attempt to grow these one day. I will file that info away in the memory banks...hopefully it will stay there! LOL.