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By Heron Wing at 2012-04-10 15:14
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Hello!
I am very new to this website, but I've been happily growing orchids for over ten years now. About six years ago I purchased a Ren. Nancy Chandler 'Red Dragon' both because I have a *thing* about the way vandaceous orchids look, and because I saw another one in flower - what a beauty! I have had some success with other vandaceous, most notably my Neostylis Lou Sneary, which blooms for me about twice a year and has been a prolific keiki producer (I've left the keikis on for now, just because I'm hoping that one of these days I'll get blooms from multiple plants, but that's another thread...)...but the Renanthera has never flowered for me. I originally had it in a wonderful SE window where it got loads of filtered sun all day, and it has grown leaves, but at that point I don't think I was misting enough and it would lose one or two leaves every so often. Also one winter in that location it was against the window during the night and got frost burn on one side, which looks terrible but the plant survived. Since then we have moved, and I now have it in a SW facing window, with several hours of direct sun and several hours more of reflected sun. It is about 4' tall, which makes it a little unwieldy to water, especially since I prefer to soak it in my shower regularly and then return it to it's current location. Right now it has about 6 or 7 good strong air roots and it has bound itself nicely to the pot it has always occupied, but I would love to try to get it to flower. From the pot to the first leaf is about 1 foot, because it had lost so many leaves, but the stem is healthy.
Another thing I'd like to try is to divide it into three plants. I was thinking that if I can get the top two sections, which are fully leaved, to be their own plants, they might flower more easily, and I could then nurse the bottom section back.
Any help or advice you have is much appreciated! I live in Northern Virginia, and I don't have a greenhouse, so I am a little limited, but I am very creative and willing to try and make this plant happy!
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