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Originally Posted by Pilot
Adrienne it is heartbreaking isn't it? Especially when you look back and see what all you've grown and grown so well! But these guys seem determined to perish. I hate to say it but if these don't survive I will need to seriously consider just wishing everyone else well with them and stick to what does respond to my usual treatment. It is just that they are so unusual looking and quite beautiful but what can you do? There has to be a trick or situation in whichever hey thrive otherwise they wouldn't be so beautiful when they arrive at our homes. What that is, I could not tell you.
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Is this happening with just the miniature variants of Sedirea or regular ones as well? Forgive me for not being able to keep straight the names of all the varieties.
EDIT: Reading the thread more carefully, I guess the problems are only with minis. I haven't got around to trying one of those yet.
My regular Sedirea japonica seems to be surviving okay. I got it in spike in April. It lost one lower leaf to normal senescence, but grew a new top leaf in that time. This one is from SE and is in a solid moss mound inside a 3" net pot. I water only when crispy and the pot feels light, but mist the exposed part of the roots most days. Light levels are relatively low. I just have one of Ray's 13W LED lights above this one Phal table (plus spill-over light from nearly adjacent terrarium).
But again, mine isn't one of the mini variants. I wonder if there's something in the genetics of those that makes them especially fragile.
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