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Had the same thoughts. Good Idea to propagate it!good petal colour
Shade, like barbatas, foliar feeding with rain water+ peters excel calmag, cc. total 400 uS every second day in summer, every week in winter, watering with pure rain water.Most important, that this one and rung are living on rock in nature and both suffer in standard paph mix.They like pure inorganic media, i use pumice+ gravel or pumice+ perlite, they love few moss around leaves.Very nice Istvan. What conditions do you give it please?
Thank you Istvan for your answer. However, my English is not good enough to understand "cc. total 400 uS". Are you talking about conductivity and if yes should I understand 400 µS/cm? And so you never feed this plant by its roots, you only give the fertilizer solution by spraying its leaves with it?Shade, like barbatas, foliar feeding with rain water+ peters excel calmag, cc. total 400 uS every second day in summer, every week in winter, watering with pure rain water.Most important, that this one and rung are living on rock in nature and both suffer in standard paph mix.They like pure inorganic media, i use pumice+ gravel or pumice+ perlite, they love few moss around leaves.
I water them once per week in winter, twice in summer, but humidity never drops under 70 percent.Thank you Istvan for your answer. However, my English is not good enough to understand "cc. total 400 uS". Are you talking about conductivity and if yes should I understand 400 µS/cm? And so you never feed this plant by its roots, you only give the fertilizer solution by spraying its leaves with it?
Is it possible to see a photo of the whole plant with its pot? Finally, how often do you water it?
Many thanks or these details.
Yes, uS/cm.Thank you Istvan for the photos, and also for the composition of your media. The one for my rung is made of 4 parts of pine bark, 2 parts of sphagnum moss, 2 parts of perlite, and 1 part of pozzolan, but it doesn't seem to like it, and is a very very slow grower in it, so I will repot it in pumice + perlite as you advised.
Is my understanding about conductivity correct?
Regards.
I can't for the life of me fathom, how such plants in any ways legally can enter any country outside the country of their origin? Even export/import of seeds or for that matter dead tissue from such species would to my knowledge be excluded due to CITES-regulations.May not be forbidden for long. Rumor has it legal plants just came into US from China.
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