Mastersianum- What Makes Them Difficult??

[Happypaphy7]

Oh, wow~ You are the plant master!
I love looking at your plants.

BTW, is this typical size of this species? It is bigger than I thought.

Mike- I think he uses very open mix, but the moss just grows on top of the potting mix rather than being part of the mix inside the pot.
I could be wrong, but that's how I remember about his growing technique.

What are all those paphs underneath your hand? makes me curious.

 

[Bjorn]

Mike, he is right, its moss growing on top of a basically bark based mix (the one of Lance Birk) At such low TDS and so moist conditions as I have, the moss comes spontaneously.
The plamnts below my hands are mostly superbiens and braemii with a posibility of some dayanum sneaking in. A bit uncertain of the braemiis since I have not seen them in flower yet.

 

[Bjorn]

Think that mastersianums can get quite big. The picture is a bit misleading though, it is a bit smaller than it looks but still pretty big. What I particularly like with this species is the thick, "fleshy" leaves. Never had one in flower but think this one is ready.

 

[Rick]

http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28653&highlight=mastersianum

Ever since I cut the feed way back these have been doing well for me. Back in my high K days they were stumpy slow, disease prone. and short lived (even though I eventually got one to bloom).

I managed to get a compot off of a flasking and got a few to go from flask to bloom in under 3 years with a leaf span about 14 inches.

I haven't been getting much clumping, but consistent new growths after blooming.

Also weird is that every bloom spontaneously produces a viable seed capsule. So hopefully I'll be getting back some new seedlings to play with.

 

[Rick]

Here's my two biggest plants. The one on the left is 14" leaf span, and did not bloom this summer. The plant on the right bloomed this summer, and is holding a capsule (that I did not pollinate). They are not holding old post bloom growths, but the plant on the right is just starting a new growth.

They responded nicely to the lemon juice trick as far as greening up goes, so maybe that will improve clumping capability.

 

[Happypaphy7]

This is way off topic, but I'm curious what in lemon juice makes plants greener?

I don't think lemon juice or greening up has anything to do with clumping of plants. I believe it is mostly in the gene. I find some plants clump and others don't no matter what you do.