Brassavola cordata - roots or leaves?

[andy83]

Alright,

I've had this in the viv for a little while and it has put on a lot of new growth.

At first I thought that the new little green guys that were coming out were roots. But now they're longer than ever and still quite green. I've recently noticed a groove in the root/leaf that would indicate to me anyway that this new growth would be three new leaves.

Another point to this is how this orchid grows. I have it mounted in a funny position in the tank but the leaves grow upright. These have followed the bulbs around a bit.

Leaves or Roots?








Thanks,
-Andy

[quiltergal]

Looks like new leaves to me.

[andy83]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. I can't believe it's doing so well with the light it has now. Three 26watt spiral cf's. I'm getting ready to put a coralife aqualight fixture on there that puts out 192watts at 6700k. I won't be able to keep up with the pruning.

I've heard that this orchid needs a lot of light to bloom. I'm going to try to get it to bloom in the vivarium. I'm just please with the new leaves. They get fatter by the week as well.

Some of the green tipped white roots are going into the tree fern panel. That's good.... yayyyy