King, only question I have is regarding the light, what is your suggestion for these plants, is it ok to have little bit more than my phals light? but not sun the whole day? or do they need at list little bit half shade and some filtered sun as well? thanks much

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Actually If I may bother you little bit more, I do really value your opinions very much, I have tried to google and find out what are these light requirements, I do not mean foot candle measurements, I want to know what each means. In my research I thunk I found this:
SHADE/FULL SHADE - place where there is no sun at all the whole growing season
PARTIAL SHADE / HALF SHADE - shade combined with some sun
FILTERED SUN/LIGHT - longer period of sunlight, filtered with trees or shade cloth

Is this pretty much it? I wish someone here wrote exact specification of each category, and I do not mean foot candles, but actually outside locations for each one:-))))

Definitely a little more than Phal lighting. Do not go overboard with the lighting. By default, the lowest amount of light it should receive is the amount adequate enough for a Phal.

Like I said, moderately bright indirect light.

Some filtered morning sun. Some filtered late afternoon sun type lighting.

Lighting should not be on the extreme end of either spectrum. Meaning not too shady and not too bright. Just right - (like in Goldie Locks and the Three Bears). :)

Many thanks.

*shade or full shade means the plant does not get direct sunlight at all.

* partial shade means you have direct sunlight at some point in time of the day ( in my fire escape my plants get direct sun from sunrise up to 11am then the tall buildings shade the plants from the sun up til 4pm)

* filtered sun is when you hang the plant under a tree where the sun gets filtered by the leaves or if you put a plant by a window with transparent diaphanous thin curtains

Those terms don't resonate with me, therefore I don't use them.

I used to mess up a lot with the lighting because these terms didn't make any sense to me at all.

This is why I use lighting terms that mean something to me, and I do my best to convey it.

I feel that many people tend to understand moderate lighting means that it shouldn't be on either extremes. Not full sun or extremely bright and not full shade or very shady.

I also feel that many people tend to understand "indirect light" better than "partial shade" or "partial sun". Indirect means that it's not getting a direct source of lighting - not full sun. The light is more or less ambient.

"Filtered light" is more understandable to me. But in the beginning, I kept asking myself "Why use the word 'filtered'?" The context of the word "filtered" would be best understood in natural terms versus in terms of household furniture. Here's what I mean:

Think about how most small plants grow.

Many of them grow under the protection of larger plants - namely, trees.

These plants growing under the canopy of trees still receive light, because if they didn't, they wouldn't be alive for long. This light is getting through the spaces in between the leaves and branches of the trees above these small plants.

This is the context by which "filtered light" should be understood as. Try not to think of "filtered light" in terms of window blinds and window screens and such; it just doesn't make much sense to me.

Just reading through old threads, wondering how everyone's plants are doing. I have 5 Chilo's, 2 Taenio's, and a Solenangis. I'm looking to get a Dendrophylax and a Microcoelia, but I haven't been able to find Micro's, or Dendro's at an affordable price.

Sad to say I lost my big lindenii to the cold but I still have a good 20 left or so and and a bunch of protocormbs growing in my vivarium haha ... They Benn there for a looooong time and I lost my Choloschista lunifera as well to the cold.


However in good news I think my fawcettii .is in spike I believe unless. It's going to be a keiki like this species is know for lol


Also my other smaller lindenii are happy just in rest period the chiloschista segawai is happy too and so is my Microcoelia bulbocalcarata ... So I would say pretty well except for that really big loss off my 9 inch lindenii

You ever take cuttings from the Micro? I also wouldn't mind buying one on those Dendro's from you either haha.

lol I will keep you in mind, they are way too small to even make the trip i believe only about 2 inches accrosss is the biggest.. but when they grow I'll let you know


and the micro.. that one still growing too not much to it yet small seedling in winter rest not doing much growing lately, its been a couple of months since i've taken a look at it and it looks exactly the same lol...

all the leafless are just sleeping.... that's about all haha