Bjorn, you triggered that poor plant to have a 2 min.s trip into the cold (about 2 Celsius outside the gh!) to have this pic!
Jean
I dream of a plant like yours.......
! though!
Thanks again!
Those who know me longer must have got the right feeling: that I do not really have a green thumb
In fact I have killed lots of plants in my culture here! I have bought more than that
As for the viets., I got 3 of them in 2006, not even knowing what their flowers would look like, from J. Schronen (just above the german/lux border); he had a lot of youngsters he had grown from a flask. The 3 grew well for some years, starting bringing up those lovely flowers! Then came a time where I thought that repotting was necessary, unfortunately, because they didn't like it at all. One broke into pieces: I was glad having 3 plants now, but all of them went downhill quickly (had same experience with other species, rhyzome breaking into parts) . The remaining got a serious sunburn in 2011.
Rick, this one was repotted into a basket in 2013, after watching the other Rick's results, Sphagnum on the outside and Orchiata inside. Even experiencing a mealy invasion, the plant resisted, and this is its first bloom since 2013.
The plant, together with another one in spike grows in low light! Feeding same as for all my orchids K-Lite alternated with other fertilizer. My gh temps are in winter lows down to 13 Celsius, and high in summer up to 38 Celsius! No profesionnal feeding/watering schedule!
Meanwhile I still have 5 viets, 2 of them in bloom/spiking.
En résumé, a very forgiving species but take extreme care when repotting; they don't (same as many other slippers) like !!
Jean
Thanks again!
Those who know me longer must have got the right feeling: that I do not really have a green thumb
In fact I have killed lots of plants in my culture here! I have bought more than that
As for the viets., I got 3 of them in 2006, not even knowing what their flowers would look like, from J. Schronen (just above the german/lux border); he had a lot of youngsters he had grown from a flask. The 3 grew well for some years, starting bringing up those lovely flowers! Then came a time where I thought that repotting was necessary, unfortunately, because they didn't like it at all. One broke into pieces: I was glad having 3 plants now, but all of them went downhill quickly (had same experience with other species, rhyzome breaking into parts) . The remaining got a serious sunburn in 2011.
Rick, this one was repotted into a basket in 2013, after watching the other Rick's results, Sphagnum on the outside and Orchiata inside. Even experiencing a mealy invasion, the plant resisted, and this is its first bloom since 2013.
The plant, together with another one in spike grows in low light! Feeding same as for all my orchids K-Lite alternated with other fertilizer. My gh temps are in winter lows down to 13 Celsius, and high in summer up to 38 Celsius! No profesionnal feeding/watering schedule!
Meanwhile I still have 5 viets, 2 of them in bloom/spiking.
En résumé, a very forgiving species but take extreme care when repotting; they don't (same as many other slippers) like !!
Jean
Interesting note.
What potting mix did you use?
Did you use different potting mix when you repotted those 3 plants??
I'm just curious here, not that different potting mix might have killed them or anything.
Or do you remember when you did the repotting? winter? hehe
I'm not big on this species flower, but I love their leaves very much!
I avoid anything that needs cool winter as I just cannot provide that conditions.
I have a few Ho Chi Minh whose leaves are luckily quite nice though not as nice as vietnamense.
It's next closest thing for me to have.
I've never had issues with repotting when dealing with mature plants, though sometimes actively growing seedlings come to a long pause after repotting.
I really don't like that.
