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Originally Posted by naoki
I'm curious about this. What kinds of terrestrial orchids are you referring to? Also where is the massive fertilizer coming from?
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Elephant, deer, buffalo, sun bears, and lots of other things.
Erias, dendrobium, cymbidiums, doritis, coelogyne, thunia, pleione and just about any other lithophytic or ground dwelling species, of which there are many.
Some of these are grazed on periodically by dear, noteably erias, and there's often deer crap right on top of the plants as the deer just stand around there munching.
I normally grow doritis in gravel trays or attached to sandstone slabs about 1/4 inch under water, for a few years i've taken to throwing in undiluted urea containing fertilizer neat into the water and draining out a week or two later. They love it.
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Here's doritis and some other orchids just sitting around sun bathing, waiting for something to poop on it, it might not happen very often, once every few years at most, but when it does i'm sure they take full advantage of it.
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