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I'm with SlipperFan - who knows a viable source for those not living in a humid forest area?
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I'm with SlipperFan - who knows a viable source for those not living in a humid forest area?
Any thoughts on culture for this? I have the opportunity to get some and am just wondering how to grow them before I order 1 or 2.
Thanks guys, I know i can count on you!
Paph. ooii is standard growing Paph.Is well known to be difficult to grow because all plants collected and distributed,first have been taken to lowland malaysia and grown for a while there...with the result of dehydration.
Also collectors use to cut off a lot of roots when they collect and so the plants have no roots.Paph ooii have a huge rhizome and huge aerial part(leaves) and with no roots have compleately no equilibrium.As start to loose water,the process became very difficult to stop...so plants became smaller and smaller takeing food from the leaves remaining with no ability to put out new wealthy roots...
In my opinion plants from flask will be quite easy to grow.
I suggest the same conditions of Dend. cuthbertsonii.
I will use a mix of lava rock,white marble,perlite and charcoal....a lot of water but extreamely good drainage.
I, too, would like to know where one can get live sphagnum. I really don't like the dead stuff for orchids.
cuthbertsonii needs cool conditions and the leaves kept dry but lots of moisture at the roots. So is that what you're suggesting? I am still waiting for them but they are seedlings that have come from flask. I think I am getting 3 plants so it gives me a little room to experiment with conditions.
Seeing you are suggesting similar conditions to cuthbertsonii, are you suggesting similar conditions to Masdevallia and Dracula then?
Thanks, this is most interesting.
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