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Originally Posted by katrina
Playing devil's advocate here...is it possible many of those sellers thought you'd be growing the cold growers outside year round? In the heat of south Florida?
Growing them in your cooler apartment vs the hot outside is the key to your success w/these little cuties. If you were to put them out on your balcony all summer I'm betting you'd see radically different results.
You have gone to great strides and a lot of extra work to grow these in your location and it's really paying off. Great job!
BTW -- please keep us posted on the cuth as I've been tempted to get the species a few times but have hesitated. I grow outside in the summer and it can get quite hot around here. My understanding of this species is that it can do ok under warmer than ideal conditions for a time but getting it to bloom could be difficult. A fellow club member grows 2 color varieties of this one and I don't remember what he does but he does do something special w/them in order to get blooms. ?? I'll have to ask him again. So, yea, please keep us posted on your progress and what you're doing...I'd be very interested to hear how things are going.
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Thanks katrina, will keep posts about cubi here. I would love to hear from you what "special" he does for them to bloom.. I think, for these the key is humidity, I know many people in Czech growing these, I am talking really about pretty much every second person growing orchids have them (it may be shocking but they have such a better opportunities to purchase orchids that we can here only dream about!). Many grows them only in houses or apartments, and it can get really hot in summer, there is nearly no A/C existence still, the temps can go over 30 Celsius (over 85F) some days in summer, they told me the key is to keep it moist and high humidity, they have it mounted and the mounts stacked in the plastic cups with moss on the bottom, it seems like they can survive even these conditions for summer, of course in winter they have much better temps for them than I can provide.
---------- Post added at 11:07 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:06 AM ----------
regarding sellers, they knew it will be kept inside, these were some that I do talk a lot and know personally already too, they just did not believe I can grow cold growers without special setups like cool growing vivariums made from vine coolers etc!
---------- Post added at 11:08 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:07 AM ----------
regarding sellers, they knew it will be kept inside, these were some that I do talk a lot and know personally already too, they just did not believe I can grow cold growers without special setups like cool growing vivariums made from vine coolers etc!
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