Ricardo's Blog,

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.

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Bulbophyllum ambrosia[Hance] Schlechter 1919

I received this orchid as a gift several years ago. Unlike all my other Bulbophyllum, it has only produced two new growths in all that t...

Monday, September 15, 2014

Ludisia discolor [Ker-Gawl.] A. Rich. 1825, a jewel orchid that is very easy to grow in Puerto Rico

Last year a friend gave me a cutting of this jewel orchid. The initial piece spent a year growing comparatively slowly and producing o...

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Tolumnia variegata, observations on a plant growing "in situ" on the Rio Abajo forest

As I walk through the forest I often see orchid plants growing in the trees. Most of them are in predictable places where o...

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Schomburgkia undulata Lindley 1841 now Laelia undulata

I brought this plant many years ago from Tropical Orchid Farm which is in Hawaii.

Monday, August 18, 2014

Stanhopea panamensis

New growths have been popping out of the sides of the basket, some three to four inches under the level of the top of the media...

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

A toadstool in the pot of Miltonia Earl Dunn

Early in the year, during the local dry season, I put a few pieces of very dry horse manure on top of the media of a Miltonia Earl ...

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