Vanda, should i bother try any longer...?

[CTB]

If you have been trying for a year, why quit now, see it to the end and you might be surprised. Thanks for sharing.

Did it survive??????????????????????????

[beanluc]

heh, here I was, all set to give advice... then to see that the thread's a year old except for CTB's bump.

What the heck... someone will find this thread through Search. So here goes

From the photos, I judge that the vanda just wasn't absorbing enough water. Leaves looked wrinkled and dry, instead of thick, full and plump.

So my question to Lene Th. would have been: "I know you're watering it every day, but, *how* are you watering it?" My own typical protocol is to let certain of my orchids *soak* in water for anywhere from 10 to 60 minutes when they look shrunken like this. Give them a chance to drink it up and fill the internal stores.

Especially with Vandaceous orchids: I've found that just wetting the roots by spraying, sprinkling or dipping every day, or even several times a day, does not seem to give the plant a chance to absorb as much as it needs. So the root-soak several times a week has become my fix for a dry-seeming vanda-type.

It also could be that Norway is just way too high of a latitude for an equatorial Vanda. Long, long winter nights and long, long summer days might be too much disruption of its cycles.

I predict that such a plant in such a place can be kept alive and maybe even encouraged to grow at a healthy rate, but that flowering is unlikely, without a fully climate controlled room with artificial lights, heat, humidity and air circulation.

[beanluc]

PS I do hope that we find out how Lene Th.'s vanda has been doing!

[CTB]

Me Too!

[BobInBonita]

Just my 2 cents here, but....
In your picture the vanda is with phals, and the phals have a dark green color.
In general, my vandas grow in light that would fry a phal, and my phals turn dark green when they need more light.
Everybody seems worried about water and fertilizer, but give that baby some sun. Especially in Norway where the sun is always a bit lower than here in Florida.
Wish I could have said this a year ago, but maybe it will help another northern hobbyist. Hope you found a way with this one.

[Anisa]

If the vase and terrarium didnt work try something different. I would put it in chunks of lava rocks or bark. And keep on sunny window. Apparently it wants to live perhaps change in conditions would five it a bust. BTW i grow my vandas in pots with lava rocks. I have found that it is the best way for me to keep them hydrated - just soak a pot when roots seems dry - usually one per day, maybe twice then it is over 90F.
Good luck with yours. She is not giving up neither should you