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04-08-2007, 10:55 AM
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Csweinfia pusilla has done awesome for me in a couple of vivariums. Forms a big grassy clump, blooms in profusion
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Whats that! Incredibly beautiful!Can someone enlighten me more about Csweinfia pusilla? To me this orchid appears to be growing rather too luxuriantly and surely smother other plants of a terrarium. I strongly reccommend slower growing and showy orchids like Sophronitis, Paphiopedilum niveum, Dendrobium jenkensii, D. crepidatum and a variety of jewel orchids for terrariums. |
04-10-2007, 03:10 PM
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This is actually a miniature. I have one as well. With less luck. I almost killed it when I first got it and has bloomed for me only 1, rather recently. THe flowers lasted a good month though. It has not smothered other viv plants becuase I keep it in a small planter which is mounted to the wall on the vivarium. So it cannot take over. However, if it did, I would not be sad about it  Supposedly its also fragrant, but I was unable to detect the smell, I think I could not get close enough to smell it though due to its placement in the viv.
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04-10-2007, 04:07 PM
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Roots are good
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Unfortunatly, mine isn't doing all that well. I just about killed it before I placed it in the Orchidarium so I think it is getting used to the new-found humidity. Here's hoping.
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I don't do most Dendros or large, "floofy orchids". For me it's minis (like Angraecoides), Masdies, Paphs, and others that crept in somewhere along the line. See my orchid list for complete collection (usually not current.)
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04-10-2007, 05:04 PM
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Ross, thats the exact same thing that happened to mine. When I first got it, I tried growing it in the open, and it lost its leaves like a bald man looses the hair on his head. It was scary! It took a year for it to recover. THis is a good terrarium orchid cause its the only place I can put it in where its happy as opposed to dieing.
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04-10-2007, 05:06 PM
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Roots are good
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Hear ya! I really think (hope) mine is getting accustomed to new (and better) conditions. Only thing is... it keeps browning leaves  so I just keep hoping it will get better..
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http://orchids-ross.blogspot.com/
I don't do most Dendros or large, "floofy orchids". For me it's minis (like Angraecoides), Masdies, Paphs, and others that crept in somewhere along the line. See my orchid list for complete collection (usually not current.)
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04-10-2007, 05:08 PM
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Mine sulked for a month or more before it got better. Stay patient.
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04-10-2007, 05:08 PM
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Roots are good
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Will do!
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http://orchids-ross.blogspot.com/
I don't do most Dendros or large, "floofy orchids". For me it's minis (like Angraecoides), Masdies, Paphs, and others that crept in somewhere along the line. See my orchid list for complete collection (usually not current.)
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04-28-2007, 11:21 PM
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Adding to the list:
Enc polybulbon
Enc porpax [think this one got renamed again] --growing well but no luck blooming it yet ... any words of wisdom?
Paphinia 'Majestic' seems happy so far.
Phal 'Lovely Kid' [parishii X lobbii]
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04-29-2007, 01:35 AM
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Ooh, thanks for the advice! I think I want a Phal 'Lovely Kid'  hehe.
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04-29-2007, 02:03 AM
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Adding to the list:
Enc porpax [think this one got renamed again] --growing well but no luck blooming it yet ... any words of wisdom?
seems happy so far.
[parishii X lobbii]
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Paul what size do Enc polybulbon, Paphinia 'Majestic' & Phal 'Lovely Kid' get to? I thought Paphinia's were fairly big?
The latest name I have for my Enc porpax is Neolehmannia porpax Chiruitta, common name Mexican Jellyfish.
Mine is growing well- no flowers.. I just got another division [freebie thanks to a generous friend] and I've mounted some on paperbark and a little bit on some cork. The one on paperbark is in my Jebo fishtank terrarium.
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