Maxillaria tenuifolia (Project 11 - Summer 2010)

[Call_Me_Bob]

hi all, glad yours is doing well camille! as you can see, i got my username changed, it used to be "help" im making a thread right now to explain the change its still just me though

mine has alot of new growths as well! im repotting it to a larger pot and moving it to S/H because i think the reason mine isnt blooming is because ive been keeping it too dry and without enough light. so this summer ill increase the light

[Zoi2]

Mine is also looking better with more light. I have it in a South window getting direct light about 6 hours a day. I thought these guys were supposed to be medium light plants. Hopefully this spring/summer we'll start seeing some blooms!
Joann

[camille1585]

On sunny days that's how many of sun mine gets as well. As the days lengthen it'll get more and more. No risk of burning, there's a screen that automatically comes down when the sun is too strong, so it's pretty much like automatic shadecloth for my orchids!

[RosieC]

Mine's not doing so well just now, but it's my own fault.

Recently all my orchids have been neglected and the lack of water (especially as it's mounted) means it's gone quite wrinkled.

Still alive though and in the brightest spot in my house. I'm hoping the neglect is over now, so hopefully it will pick up again. I have trouble waking up on dark mornings and mornings before work is the only real time to water everything so winter is always hard on them, but the neglect has been worse this year for various reasons. Now it's starting to get lighter again I've doing better for them all

[Call_Me_Bob]

Well I repotted mine to s/h tonight. Took forever!! There were soo many roots on this stud, it was heck trying to get all the moss out!! And then I took a division of it. It's a pretty good sized division, but you can't even tell that the mother plant is missing anything! And a few pieces fell of here and there, so I potted those all up together.

I also repotted and divided some other things. I did the
Max, a bc kosh wallis that i divided and repotted both halves, and a phal baldans kaleidoscope. I started at 10:30 and didn't get done until 12:30!! Phew that took forever!!


so here are pictures.



















The shelf is so full only have room for about 5 more plants. But I plan on getting rid of some. Especially the divisions I made tonight.

[Discus]

I didn't get this as part of this project (I acquired it last year) but it bloomed for me in December).

See more about my Maxillaria tenuifolia here.

[camille1585]

Bob, yours is huge!!! Your plant was among the largest at the start of the project (mine is still smaller than that despite crazy growth), and it really grew very well for you. I hope that it will adjust fine to S/H for you.

Discus, nice bloom on yours. I hope mine will do the same this year...

[Discus]

Mine is still quite small, perhaps 10-15 or so pseudobulbs. They're very cute little plants!
It was this size when I bought it in March last year

- it's grown a few new pbulbs since then

[Call_Me_Bob]

Originally Posted by Discus

I didn't get this as part of this project (I acquired it last year) but it bloomed for me in December).

See more about my Maxillaria tenuifolia here.

Hopefully I can bloom mine this year! I loooovvveeee the fragrance!

[RosieC]

Wow Bob, that must have grown like crazy. I thought mine was growing well with lots of growths but those growths are developing slowly.

I have the yellow version as well now and that's also growing quite slowly. I might put that in S/H as it's potted now and might do well that way. The project plant is mounted and I re-mounted it a few months ago and I quite like growing it that way so won't change it again.

Discus, great to see that even if it's not a project plant