Epidendrum Parkinsonianum cultural advice please?

[pixieStar]

I re-potted my epi. parkinsonianum. Thank you all for your advice.

He is now in a smaller basket lined with sphagnum moss, loosely filled with a mix of coconut chips, charcoal and perilite. I hung the basket at as extreme of an angle as I could without the orchid and mix spilling out. I also removed the developing seed pod as I am a home grower and wanted it to establish itself and put out new growths and thought the seedpod was saping a great deal of resources.

He seems to be pleased with the new arrangement as there is a good deal of new root growth and some new little growths at the bracts below the leaves. I have been watering about once a week and mist every morning. Hopefully things will continue going well and I will have exciting news to report in the future.

[Epicatt2]

Hi pixieStar,

I know this thread is about four years old, but . . .

I am just curious as to how your Epi. parkinsonianum progressed after you put it into that smaller basket. It should be well established now.

Since this species has a pendent habit in nature I would guess you could tilt the basket more to the side to let let the leaves hang down in a more pendent fashion, as it would do in nature.

I bought a large bare-root seedling about four years ago and put it into a 3-inch clay pot into sphagnum, then hung the pot at a 45-degree angle. It has taken a good while but has now started to show more vigourous growth and should bloom in another growth or two. [Fingers X-ed!]

It will also need to be repotted at the next new growing cycle and I'm thinking of munting it onto a piece of hard treefern with the fiber hung vertically so it won't become waterlogged.

Hope your plant is doing well. Maybe you will offer us an update on it.

Cheers!

Paul M.
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