This blog is an eclectic mix of orchid culture, tropical fish keeping and Amazon parrot behavior. It also has stories just about anything I find interesting. Este blog es una mezcla eclectica del cultivo de las orquideas, el cuidado de los peces tropicales y el comportamiento de las cotorras Amazona. Tambien tiene historias de todo lo que encuentro interesante.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Dendrobium formosum Roxb. var giganteum Roxburg ex Lindley 1832, in my experience this one really hates being put in a pot
This species has nice flowers reminiscent of a white Cattleya. It can produce foot long canes that will bear short inflorescences that with several relatively large white flowers. In my experience it will only grow well if it is mounted in a plaque, all my potted plants either languished producing poor growth or died. Plants mounted in tree fern plaques grew larger and thrived for a years but eventually deteriorated as the tree fern plaque decayed and started retaining too much water. So my advice is to mount these orchids in a plaque and be watchful for poor growth, that will be a warning sign that the mount needs to be replaced.
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