emydura
Well-Known Member
Currently in flower. It did have a second bud on the same spike but it aborted at the last moment.
This is one plant I have experimented with using the basket treatment. Initially I used the wooden slat baskets but I found the mix just dried out too quickly. So I changed to these deeper plastic pot baskets (145 mm across). I lined it with sphagnum moss and then filled it with 9-12 mm orchiata bark. It has been in this basket for about a year and seems to be doing quite well. I've noticed the mix stays more evenly moist while at the same time the roots get a lot more oxygen. I seem to be getting better root growth as well. I think I will need more time before I'm 100% confident but initial results are encouraging.
I have worked out why these photos I have been posting lately are so crap. Photobucket automatically resizes the photos and hence changes the resolution. I for the life of me can't work out how to stop that happening. From what others have said I will need to start paying if I want to have more control. It seems these photo hosting websites are now basically forcing people to pay for there services. I only went to photobucket because Imageshack is no longer free.
Paph lawrenceanum
This is one plant I have experimented with using the basket treatment. Initially I used the wooden slat baskets but I found the mix just dried out too quickly. So I changed to these deeper plastic pot baskets (145 mm across). I lined it with sphagnum moss and then filled it with 9-12 mm orchiata bark. It has been in this basket for about a year and seems to be doing quite well. I've noticed the mix stays more evenly moist while at the same time the roots get a lot more oxygen. I seem to be getting better root growth as well. I think I will need more time before I'm 100% confident but initial results are encouraging.
I have worked out why these photos I have been posting lately are so crap. Photobucket automatically resizes the photos and hence changes the resolution. I for the life of me can't work out how to stop that happening. From what others have said I will need to start paying if I want to have more control. It seems these photo hosting websites are now basically forcing people to pay for there services. I only went to photobucket because Imageshack is no longer free.
Paph lawrenceanum