Everyone is updating on their plants so here is how mine is getting on.
I don't think I posted pics of when it flowered last December so this is how it looked. It spiked of the main plant and from its keiki's on either side. The mama plants spike started to open first then follwed by the left keiki as you look at it, then on the right. And the scent was lovely, quite citrussy. I think it had about 70 blooms if my memory serves me correct.
I keep it in my Bathroom hanging off my Ascocenda Suksamaran Sunshine in front of a south facing window. It gets showered every morning with quite hard tap water and sprayed with a hand pump at about midday if its warm and sunny, and then again at about 3pm if its hot and sunny.
It gets fed once a week with organic liquid seaweed when it soaks in the bath for about an hour or longer if I get distracted!
Temp wise it gets up to the top end of the twenties in the summer or low thirties.
At the moment its 19 - 25 on a sunny day.
In the winter top temps are about 19 to 22c when the heating is on and lowest at night of 13 but usually about 15c.
I have put up sheets of tracing paper along two thirds of the window to diffuse the sun now it is that time of year it is getting stronger. The last third is where a couple of Ansellia africana and two Myrmecophila get lots of sun.
It is growing lots of new roots and a lot of the old ones are branching with new tips. It has new leaves and a little nub I'm hoping is a spike!
Gastro. jap dec 2011 010.jpg
Gastro. jap dec 2011 014.jpg
Gastro.jap in situ 04.2012.jpg
Gastro.jap roots 04.2012.jpg
Gastro. jap spike 04.2012.jpg
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