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Please read all info below. Five phrags, bare root. Photos available if you are sincerely interested in purchasing. 1. Phrag richteri, many many growths, bloomed summer '17. ($40) 2. Phrag Piping Rock, one healthy growth. Had more growths but got some rot, treated with physan drench...

Hey just because you or I can't bloom that - hahahahahahaha :rollhappy:

I grow them indoors ~6 months a year, sitting in a windowsill; sitting in ~2" of water that is sometimes standing and sometimes circulated with a small pump; I spray them occasionally; and I run a humidifier in the room. If I had to guess what causes rot, occasionally, in a couple of the...

Sold Sorry, sold.

oh circulation. I have one pump. I move it between the two trays every couple days, when I think of it. Probably no harm in getting another one of those cheap little pumps!

OK, thanks. Correction - it's a little over two inches of water when the trays are full, after evaporation they get closer to 1.5". By and large I'm using rainwater, though in summer it's filtered tapwater, PPM ~125. In Northern California, our susceptibility to drought, R/O isn't an option, and...

By and large they are doing OK. Maybe I should avoid species. Too bad because I just spent $50 on a caudatum in bud. Urgandiae, Giganteum, Inca Embers, richteri, Geralda, and Franz Glanz have all bloomed, some of them more than once (in 2.5 years).

At my local orchid society yesterday, I purchased two Phrags from the speaker, a regional expert (more in Paphs than in Phrags) - Jason Fischer and Caudatum. He said Jason Fischer and other Besseae types do fine in my conditions, sitting in 3" of water (a humidity tray with the grate...

(See price at bottom of listing). Plants are in SF Bay Area. I'm selling these because: a) I want to make space for oncidium alliance plants, which I'm more interested in now; b) 3 of these now have blasted their buds for me, and when it happened this week I threw up my hands [not interested...

Get rooting hormone, apply that, give it the right conditions (potting media, humidity, water to roots) and then WAIT. It will root. Plants want to grow, they're genetically programmed to do so under the correct conditions. Patience is the orchidist's greatest ally, and the one of the hardest...

I bought this in bloom a little over a year ago, first reblooming. The dorsal sepal is doing a crazy swoop to the side thing, as if the lip is an attention-hungry diva. And the bottom sepals seem to have a kind of magnetic attraction to each other! Sadly, I knocked off the...

Great Eliseo! And great photos, too. What camera/lens are you using?

Thanks! I second that. So impressive - great work.

phrags v. paphs Yeah, as you know I have phrags too. And though I have many in bloom at the moment, they too drive me crazy. Lots of little rotty places on them at the moment, but then I grown them in 3" of water and mist them all the time, and they live outdoors in cool Northern California...

We are unsustainable. And "we" is the current dominant biome with humans at the peak and base of the pyramid. Mother Nature is winding this little experiment down.