Vanda Manuvadee ‘Blue’

[Jackie26085]

I tried vase culture on a neostylis Lou sneary once (at least I think it is) and the roots dries up so fast and becomes super duper thin in a matter of days. I watered it once a day for 20 min and sometimes twice. A couple times I left it in for 8 hours by accident. I even shut the window to reduce ventilation. No matter how much I soak them, the roots dries up in no time and I cannot detect any humidity inside the vase. Do you guys experience the same?


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[Bud]

Originally Posted by Jackie26085

I tried vase culture on a neostylis Lou sneary once (at least I think it is) and the roots dries up so fast and becomes super duper thin in a matter of days. I watered it once a day for 20 min and sometimes twice. A couple times I left it in for 8 hours by accident. I even shut the window to reduce ventilation. No matter how much I soak them, the roots dries up in no time and I cannot detect any humidity inside the vase. Do you guys experience the same?


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Bay Area is humid. Even in winter there is cold and damp indoors and outdoors. The atmosphere is conducive to growing orchids outdoors. You will notice how lush the trees and plants in the environment. As opposed to Arizona desert....Your indoor situation must also be the same. So I cannot comprehend the dryness you are talking about....Vase culture is precisely for dry areas because it retains humidity and moisture inside the vase=but if you forgot to put water inside the vase for consecutive weeks then any living thing will dry up and wither....

[bethmarie]

Beautiful and enormous! And now that I think of it, that's a pretty big bud vase

[Bud]

Originally Posted by bethmarie

Beautiful and enormous! And now that I think of it, that's a pretty big bud vase

Thanks for the visit, Beth!

The vase stands 14 inches with an eight inches opening....I got it from Marshalls

[rarejem85]

Gorgeous!


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[Bud]

Thank You !

[Jackie26085]

Originally Posted by Bud

Bay Area is humid. Even in winter there is cold and damp indoors and outdoors. The atmosphere is conducive to growing orchids outdoors. You will notice how lush the trees and plants in the environment. As opposed to Arizona desert....Your indoor situation must also be the same. So I cannot comprehend the dryness you are talking about....Vase culture is precisely for dry areas because it retains humidity and moisture inside the vase=but if you forgot to put water inside the vase for consecutive weeks then any living thing will dry up and wither....

Are you joking? Bay Area is nowhere near humid. Everything is yellow here besides trees and shrubs. It may be a bit more humid than Arizona but the reason the climate is so hospitable is because the humidity is fairly low. My poor neostylis' roots shriveled up in a matter of days even though I soak it at least once a day. The same goes with my ascocentrum. It has done so much better after I put it in a basket with some moss and wine corks



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[Bud]

Originally Posted by Jackie26085

Are you joking? Bay Area is nowhere near humid. Everything is yellow here besides trees and shrubs. It may be a bit more humid than Arizona but the reason the climate is so hospitable is because the humidity is fairly low. My poor neostylis' roots shriveled up in a matter of days even though I soak it at least once a day. The same goes with my ascocentrum. It has done so much better after I put it in a basket with some moss and wine corks



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Hardiness Zones, Gardening Zones, Growing Zones and Plant Zones refer to defined geographic regions that can support specific plants, flowers and trees. The zones define a minimum range of temperatures that a plant or tree can survive safely in that zone. The most commonly used Hardiness Zones were defined by the USDA. The USDA provides a hard copy map that displays these zone throughout the US…. San Francisco Bay Area - USDA Zone 10a….if you are in the suburbs of this city then check the USDA zone according to your zip code….I live in Manhattan and I am in Zone 7b….I have high humidity in summers and low humidity in winter that is why vase culture does very well for me especially in the cold dry months….you on the other hand according to the grow zone do not have any problem with atmospheric moisture and humidity indoors or outdoors. Or the USDA zoning must be really really wrong! And vase culture in any zone provides humidity and moisture for plants unless you vase has an air suction that dries plants. I deduced that your plant had fungi or bacteria infestation on the roots that prevented it from doing its job….since you did not know what was going on =you blamed it on vase culture.