Angraecum sesquipedale

[Fabrice]

Not the good timing for this usually winter specie but I forgive it!

 

[Secundino]

Oh wow, happy seasons ...!

 

[NYEric]

Wow!!

 

[chris20]

Very beautiful.

 

[SlipperFan]

Great presentation!

 

[Migrant13]

Awesome specimen. How long have you had it?

 

[abax]

Gorgeous flowers and I don't think I've ever seen one with
as many open flowers...WOW is right.

 

[Stone]

Magnificent!

 

[adiaphane]

How do you grow yours?

 

[paphioboy]

Gorgeous! Seems like it likes blooming out of season..

 

[Justin]

Wow great growing!!!!! I grow this too but not to your level.

 

[Fabrice]

The secret with this one and with some other angreacoides is probably to grow them in Rockwool grow cube.

All my plants were in rockwool some years ago. As I had more and more problems with it, I stopped to use for the majority of my plants but I kept some of them in it because it's just perfect.
Sesquipedale, magdalanae, Jumellea, some Laelia like tenebrosa.

 

[Happypaphy7]

Great display!

Did you treat Rockwool every so often?
I read somewhere that they need this "conditioning".

For this particular plant still in Rockwool and doing well, how do you care for it?
Watering and fertilizing?

 

[mrhappyrotter]

I love this Angraecum. It's such a wonderful group of orchids. I assume this smells pretty divine in the evening. I have a couple of smaller growing Angs, but I don't think either of them would enjoy rockwool. My Aeranthes might be happy in it, since it appears to like a lot of moisture at the roots.

I do know Phrags love rockwool (at least the wet growers), and paphs grow well in it so long as you're cautious enough not to over water.

 

[Stone]

Great display!

Did you treat Rockwool every so often?
I read somewhere that they need this "conditioning".

For this particular plant still in Rockwool and doing well, how do you care for it?
Watering and fertilizing?

I was going to ask the same thing about pre-treatment of the rockwool and also is it the water absorbent kind or water repellent kind?

 

[Fabrice]

Yes, pre treatment with a water pH beetween 4.8 to 5.2. I add acid as pH It should stabilize at around 5 in the time.

About culture, almost like Vandas for light but need colder temperaturs ( 15°C ) some weeks in the night to spike. (But that was before its season problem! :-D )
Always wet with rockwool of course and non acidifiyng osmocote.

 

[Ozpaph]

really nice

 

[cnycharles]

It's beautiful
The one Clark gave me gave up to repeated scale attacks


Elmer Nj

 

[JeanLux]

Bravo!!!! Jean

 

[Clark]

Super!