Project 2015 Spring [main]: Amesiella monticola

[Leafmite]

Originally Posted by gngrhill

I agree with you on that one....waiting is hard enough for the ones that you can actually see the difference. This thing never moves.
Interesting point, everyone on OB says it's a cool grower, when I was at Marlow's yesterday we talked about it and he says it's a warm grower.
I have not really researched it myself, but you have to wonder........
I did research my new Max. tenuifolia, and one website tells you to keep it wet, very wet ; and other sites tell you it likes to dry out between watering ??? How are you supposed to figure these things out ??

The max-ten is an easy one. You can put it in any open medium (NZ sphagnum, bark, lava rock, LECA) and it grows. It prefers Cattleya light and to be watered regularly to bloom but it will survive neglect and shade (mine certainly has--though it doesn't bloom/doesn't bloom well). I put mine in red lava rock long ago and then buried it in more red lava rock when it got too crazy. It probably needs divided and reburied but as I hate re-potting, we'll see when that happens.

Speaking of re-potting, I think I am going to remove my project plant from the mount and put it in a net pot with some LECA. I plan to do the same to the Angraecum didieri orchids this evening so I might as well. :|

[Wynn Dee13]

Originally Posted by Mandy2705

Hmmm interesting little nubbin. It's growing out right next to a root. Maybe it's a new root? It's right at the end of my fingernail in the photo. Also, the nubbin which I am 90% sure it's a spike has maybe a root growing right next to it? This orchid is definitely one of my most interesting orchids


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That is a spike nuben! They look just like Angraecum Didieri nuben spikes if you have one of those. The spike nubens grow slow too though! Congrats!

ETA: I think that is a root coming out too. My didieri almost always grows a root out the same place as the spike. The two species look and grow similarly.

[judith_arquette]

Originally Posted by gngrhill

I agree with you on that one....waiting is hard enough for the ones that you can actually see the difference. This thing never moves.
Interesting point, everyone on OB says it's a cool grower, when I was at Marlow's yesterday we talked about it and he says it's a warm grower.
I have not really researched it myself, but you have to wonder........
I did research my new Max. tenuifolia, and one website tells you to keep it wet, very wet ; and other sites tell you it likes to dry out between watering ??? How are you supposed to figure these things out ??

It got full sun (eastern) until early afternoon and I kept it in a dish of shallow water and the darn thing bloomed all summer/early fall for me. Not sure if winter care is different because I got it in the spring. I tried letting it dry out a little between waterings per the AOS website directions but I definitely noticed that the pbulbs would start to shrivel when I did...

[hiimisis]

I have a little spike growing on mine. I basically neglect it so I can't really say what made it to decide to put out a spike

[gngrhill]

looks like a spike.

[cbuchman]

Looks like a spike is starting to me Good job!

[reliablefool]

These spikes are excruciatingly slow! It's a good thing we all have other plants to focus on as well.

[judith_arquette]

Originally Posted by reliablefool

These spikes are excruciatingly slow! It's a good thing we all have other plants to focus on as well.

Agreed! Mine doesn't seem to have grown since I first noticed it... It has begun putting out another new leaf tho so maybe it's stalled due to that.

[No-Pro-mwa]

Well mine is growing a new leaf. I am so relieved perhaps it is going to survive the fungus problem.

[gngrhill]

Originally Posted by judith_arquette

It got full sun (eastern) until early afternoon and I kept it in a dish of shallow water and the darn thing bloomed all summer/early fall for me. Not sure if winter care is different because I got it in the spring. I tried letting it dry out a little between waterings per the AOS website directions but I definitely noticed that the pbulbs would start to shrivel when I did...

Thanks, Judith. I repotted it in a basket. I lined it with SM and then filled it with leca. That way I can dunk it into my bucket of rain water every day and then I put it in a dish while it's still dripping so it's got a little water in the dish. I have it under the t-5s in the corner where it also gets some late afternoon sun on it. Looks happy so far

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I have some awesome news..... that little nubbin that I thought was a new root has grown a "thumb". Definitely has a "mitten" shape now.

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I have some awesome news..... that little nubbin that I thought was a new root has grown a "thumb". Definitely has a "mitten" shape now.