Maxillaria sophronitis - Orchid Board

s.kallima · #1 (**permalink**) 11-06-2009, 05:01 PM

young plant, first bloom at home (I bought it 1 1/2 year ago).
It is growing on treefern slab, outside all summer with east exposure, inside the rest of the year hanging 6 inches under T5 HO lights. Intermediate temps, spray every day and soak every 2-3 days. The treefern slab dries in about 2 days.

It is a fast grower : 3 generations of pseudobulbs in one year !

and each psb grows 2 new psb each time. From 3 mature psb last year, I got 24 growing already !

the same plant exactly one year ago

RosieC · #2 (**permalink**) 11-06-2009, 05:05 PM

Wow, what a great colour! Fantastic plant!

kinknstein · #3 (**permalink**) 11-06-2009, 06:54 PM

Beauty!!

PitcherASAMD · #4 (**permalink**) 11-06-2009, 07:32 PM

WOW! She's gorgeous! Looks like a very extremely happy and healthy plant! Great growing! Thanks for sharing

--Katie

Paul · #5 (**permalink**) 11-07-2009, 04:15 PM

Beautiful!

harrywitmore · #6 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 08:17 AM

That's really nice. I bought one of these from Andy's this past spring and it absolutely hated me. Not sure what I did wrong but it's all but dead now. I tried bright light, low light, moist dryer nothing seemed to help. Can you tell me how you grow yours?