This one lives in my kitchen window. In the summer, I have an umbrella up on my deck outside that keeps it from getting a ton of direct sunlight. I also water it a lot more on hot days. I think the trick to keeping the roots cooler is air exchange around them. The masdies I have in net pots seem to do the best. The ones in clay don't do as well, but clay is supposed to stay cooler. So I'm not sure. Right now I have one in each in this window and both are doing well. My veitchiana, I nearly killed. It's recovering from my poor treatment of it. It started out with mealybugs and then got a case of leaf dropping that I managed to stop when it had two leaves and about five good roots left. It's on the mend. I potted it up in a pot with hydroton, mixed bark, topped with moss and put it in a clay pot and kept the saucer filled with water all summer long and that seemed to work. It now has about a dozen leaves. I'm so bummed. It was a gorgeous plant, in bloom when I got it. Now I won't see blooms for several years. The Maui Lollipop though... I'm in love. It's a hybrid of Masdevallia Mendozae and something else, so the flowers look like little goldfish. The first bud opened today. I have about ten spikes on this plant, all told.
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