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Ed M
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My Mexipedium xerophyticum continues to do well, this year producing the most flowers yet. One stem has produced two open flowers and a bud.
This diminutive relative of the Phragmipedium "ladyslipper" is native to just a few mountains in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, where the species was discovered only in 1995. It grows directly on rock outcrops, so the leaves are thick and very stiff, similar to a Cattleya or Laelia. The small plants produce flowers only as big as your fingernail.
My Mexipedium is growing in a 12" plastic bulb pan in a mixture of seedling bark, seedling coconut husk, perlite, and charcoal, with a very heavy top-dressing of cracked oyster shell. Probably the mix ends up being 25% oyster shell. I grow it with my Vanda orchids...so, very high light and humidity...lots of water during the summer...watering about three times per week...and during the winter perhaps once every ten days. This mimics how they grow in nature. However, Marilyn Ledoux told me to grow it "just like a Phrag".
This diminutive relative of the Phragmipedium "ladyslipper" is native to just a few mountains in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, where the species was discovered only in 1995. It grows directly on rock outcrops, so the leaves are thick and very stiff, similar to a Cattleya or Laelia. The small plants produce flowers only as big as your fingernail.
My Mexipedium is growing in a 12" plastic bulb pan in a mixture of seedling bark, seedling coconut husk, perlite, and charcoal, with a very heavy top-dressing of cracked oyster shell. Probably the mix ends up being 25% oyster shell. I grow it with my Vanda orchids...so, very high light and humidity...lots of water during the summer...watering about three times per week...and during the winter perhaps once every ten days. This mimics how they grow in nature. However, Marilyn Ledoux told me to grow it "just like a Phrag".
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