Seeking advice from experienced growers re: orchids suited to my environment

[jrodpad]

Hi ElanaMarie,

Happy New Year. My growing conditions are almost identical to yours. Same temps, same humidity and same light. I supplement light too. I'm near Boston. Happily, I can grow almost anything with a little effort. If your growing phals and milts, you can also grow things like paphs, and phrags with no problem. With a bit more light added artificially, you can grow oncs. Complex onc hybrids do extremely well for me in these same conditions with a bit more light. If you supplement a bit of humidity when it's particularly dry (in the 40s), you can grow lots of other types. I do well with bulbos and restrepias and neosts with a bit of artificial humidity in the winter.

The only things that I stay away from are very high light plants, cool growers and very high humidity plants that do not suffer swings well. So vandas, certain catts, certain bulbos, masdies, draculars, etc. don't do well at my place. At least until I get a greenhouse. Some day.

Hope this helps.

-J