Sure, these are from Sunday 12thDid it open any more?
Wow, I would be interested to see if one of those would survive in my gh, with my viets !!!! Jean
Do you know the clonal names of the parents?
About watering... I read you water often in summer. Do you keep your plants on the wet side if you campare with other Paphs?
I also read you use urea as fertilizer. Do you water to foliage and the mix?
And there is a very nice Charlie-group in background!
The compost is mostly marble gravel With some sand, moss and bark so it does not adsorb much water anyhow. But yes I water almost every day. Try to restrict myself to every second/Third day, but its difficult. And its overhead with a hose. Since the pots are small and the leaves overlap quite a bit they may experience drier conditions than I believe though. When I see obvious cases of the latter, I relocate a bit and try to give more water. Winter is a much drier story though.
All my water contains fertiliser at a low level (<100ppmTDS, some 15ppm N perhaps a bit less) that is added through proportioners connected to the hose I use for watering. No weekly fertiliser, just always fertiliser, but little. The same water is used for all my orchids including phrags like kovachii, andrettae and fisherii that seems to like it as well. If this info is connected to the fact that I overhead water with a hose,,,well its justifiable to claim that to some degree also foliar feeding is going on. And btw. water in the crown is unavoidable so it happens at every watering with no particular amount of decease incidents. But that is a different story
Good stuff. Too bad judging is based on "Natural Spread", because those wings on the viet would make it huge if held out straight.
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