Questions on Dryadella zebrina culture

[flyingSquirrel]

I'm looking to grow a Dryadella zebrina in my paludarium. I'm wondering how moist or wet it can be, and how much shade it likes.

I have a spot where there is some moist/wet wood, and it's beneath a bromeliad. I'd like to plant it on the wet wood in the shade there.

Andy's Orchids sells the plant in a pot and says 'moist/daily watering', so I assume it can be wetter than say, something they sell attached to a stick. Should I be concerned about rot? (it's not super wet, but it would not ever dry out). Would I want to remove potting media and go bare-root in this situation?

Also I don't want to put it in so much shade that it becomes lanky, but I want it to be cool and happy. I have a 2 x 24W T5HO light setup, and the orchid would be beneath a bromeliad at about 12" beneath the lights. I know that isn't really any scientific measurement of light level but I'm hoping it will help enough.

Oh, one more thing, the plant would be growing flat on a horizontal surface, as opposed to mounted on a vertical surface.

What do you think?

thanks

[Zoi2]

I can't help but am giving you a bump.
Joann

[flyingSquirrel]

Originally Posted by Zoi2

I can't help but am giving you a bump.
Joann

Thanks Joann.

[Bud]

According to IOSPE: This plant is originally found in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia, warm to cool growing miniature epiphyte in damp forests, often with mists and fog late afternoons (it means you have to water it in the morning and spritz it late afternoons) with a rest period in late fall to winter and resume the watering regiment early spring until fall ... this specie will grow in a cool, humid, semi shaded sun and this plant loves to feed and drink a lot; its best put in a fibrous well drained medium...
and, yes to your flat horizontal surface...cause this baby can be mounted or potted

[flyingSquirrel]

Originally Posted by Bud

According to IOSPE: This plant is originally found in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia, warm to cool growing miniature epiphyte in damp forests, often with mists and fog late afternoons (it means you have to water it in the morning and spritz it late afternoons) with a rest period in late fall to winter and resume the watering regiment early spring until fall ... this specie will grow in a cool, humid, semi shaded sun and this plant loves to feed and drink a lot; its best put in a fibrous well drained medium...
and, yes to your flat horizontal surface...cause this baby can be mounted or potted

Thank you!

[Paul Mc]

I have mine in my terrarium where it gets about 1500 footcandles and stays at 80 percent humidity. The fogger turns on in the morning, but I also hand water (spray bottle) in the morning and the evening. I have started to reduce the watering though (skipping once a day) now that winter is here. I have it mounted flat.