Leptotes bicolor

[dougbraz]

Pilot - interesting to see yours growing in S/H - haven't really tried that yet (but am researching on this forum). Mine is growing - not yet flowering - in a mixture of moss and gravel stones - the way it came from the shop.

[dougbraz]

Pilot - interesting to see yours growing in S/H - haven't really tried that yet (but am researching on this forum). Mine is growing - not yet flowering - in a mixture of moss and gravel stones - the way it came from the shop.

[Pilot]

Originally Posted by Bud

Thank You, Ryan !
This is the first time I have bloomed this plant and it is about to give me six more flowers. I waited for so long....I guess it has grown acustomed to my environment.
I should have grown this on S/H....but I like towater mounted plants....I must be doing right by this plant it has given me several small growths as well...I have 24 pseudo bulbs so far....I am looking forward to more blooms and seed pods for my desert

Bud I grow so much in sh and not necessarily bc I prefer it. I much prefer to grow things as they would in nature but you know how it goes...time, set up...conditions! All of these things change how we end up growing things. Sh is my mainstay bc of how horribly low our humidity is all the time. Even after a robust rain storm, humidity plummets to the usual 20% or so. So the only plants I grow outside of sh and even then still in the sh medium are my tolumnia and my one pathetic vanda, which get watered...a lot!!! They love summers outside tho bc I can drench them with the hose several times a day.

Ok...seed pod for dessert???

[Bud]

right....the seed pod of this plant is dried just as the vanilla pod and aged....follow the instructions of the vanilla pod preparation....usually it is soaked in an oil or alcohol bath and the extract is the one used for flavorings for deserts and sweets....

I understand your concern with humidity. Your environment both indoors and outdoors tend to be very low in moisture. The vanda can also be on S/H as some of my large and matured specimens. If I cannot hang them outdoors on my fire escape in the summers; they get to be on S/H but sprayed in the morning and late afternoon so the surface of the LECA dont get very dry(the aerial roots above the clay also needs to be sprayed).
I remember when I was in Denver for 6 months in spring/summer '08....it was a good change from the hot and humid New York summers.

[Pilot]

Good to know! I haven't pollinated any of mine and I doubt I will but I'd love to see the process if you're going to do it!

[RosieC]

Love it!

[Bud]

Thank You, Rosie !

[Bud]

Doug, if you go to Pilot's past postings....you will see pictures of his S/H orchids culture and his glass vessels....the one thing that really impressed me is his mylar sun refrector shields

[GardenTheater]

Great looking bloom and plant! This one is on my wish list along with L. lundii.

[Bud]

Thank You, GT!!!!!

this is a compact plant that can fit in your windowsill either mounted or potted....it is no fuss at all....just follow the culture....and you may even have it on shady outdoors when there is no frost in your grow zone