Angraecum sesquipedale

[nenella]

Great Growing! super plant & flower.

[Tindomul]

Originally Posted by Discus

I've had one sitting about doing very little for a year. It's just decided to put out a new root in the last couple of weeks. Pondering a move from CHC to hydroton!

Somewhere recently I read a hypothesis that the long spur on orchids may have come about through an "arms race" between the moths and the orchids - because of spiders! Theory goes that moths originally evolved long(er) proboscis not for sipping long nectaries, but so they didn't have to get too close to flowers and risk being munched by spiders that lie in wait there. The orchids weren't too happy about the moths being so far away and never pollinating them, so the long spurs came about as a way of drawing the little buggers in closer! (I paraphrase of course, but that's the gist).

That sounds intriguing. Thanks for bringing it up!!

[Bud]

That is quite an info...I always thought moths had stingers like the bees...they only have long sipping curled up straws

[Paul Mc]

Bud, I just got one of these myself. How do you grow yours? I was told to grow them along side my phal's.

[Bud]

Yes this is beside my Phals on my windowsill and I give it the Baker culture...I wait til it is dry and then water it every other day(my apartment is dry and too hot this winter). Weekly weakly fertilizer alternated with seaweed mix&worm tea mix...I seem to have the regimen correct for it to bloom on me(altho I was expecting it on christmas but it opened its blooms late)
In the summer this goes out to the fire escape shaded by the vandas but loves the Manhattan humidity