Project 2023 Spring Sarcochilus

[Hazeldazel]

Yeah the things I’ve read is to treat it like a cymbidium and a neofinetia had a cute baby. I’ve reported mine into 3” net pots in orchiata bark with lots of perlite and I’ll probably put them outside on my covered patio. I’ve kept my cymbidium outside all year round just pulled in to a more protected spot. I’ll probably bring the sarcos inside since it’s gone down to 28*F the last couple winters.

Edit: forgot to mention that when I repotted the two I got SVO last weekend, there wasn’t one dead root between the two of them. 👍 There was a moss plug at the center (which the roots were avoiding) that I removed. They came with smallish bark with a lot of decent sized perlite.

[OrchKid]

Hi, all!

This is my second posting %^) and I'm interested in joining this project! But I need to check a couple of things.

I would need something that will work in a terrarium (have to go out of town for about 6 weeks).

I'm looking at Sarcochilus olivaceous.... but does anyone know if that will work in a cool terrarium?

The terrarium is 12x12X18, and gets a 2-min misting every morning. All but one item is mounted, so they get fertilized weakly weekly with MSU. To give an idea of what's in it now:

- a lepanthopsis astrophora that's flowering now
- a haraelle odorate that just finished blooming (one flower; it's young yet)
- an ornithocephalus gladiatus that bloomed in March
- a leptotes bicolor that is happily growing but not blooming yet
- a dendrochillium parvulum that had a hard start (it was pre-terrarium) so will be recovering from that for a while.

(There was an angraecum somalensis too, but it started turning a little yellow so I took it out and moved it to a place with more light.)

So: does sarcochilus olivaceous have a chance here? (fingers crossed)

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[Roberta]

Looked it up... I think that it would work in your environment, it likes humidity. Range is very wide, so cool should be fine. Go for it!

[Clawhammer]

Just received my sarco! I potted it up in a mix of medium/large bark (75%) and river rocks (25%), which was the general advice I encountered on Aussie care sheets.

First time trying sarcochilus, looking forward to experiencing it with y'all

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[WaterWitchin]

I've never grown sarcochilus either! Just finished repotting from the bark-perlite mix they were in. A moss plug in middle was removed from the two I potted into semi-hydro, and the third I left as is other than shaking it a little and mounting it. The mounted one is hung under auto misters that will actually hit the mount and the other two are underneath and will only get high humidity that results. From reading a bit, I may have too much light on them so I'll just watch for awhile and see what happens. Roberta will put up the pics for me when she has a minute.

[camille1585]

Here's mine! It's a Sarcochilus Kulnura Treasure. I had a really, really hard time choosing because Akerne Orchids has a huge selection of them, and many are grown from seed so there's a huge amount of variation even within one cross. The Sarco didn't travel alone, I also got a Prosthechea cochleata (last photo is one in the greenhouse) and a Lycaste campbellii.

The greenhouses were really nice, I wasn't expecting to see such a large greenhouse (700m2 from what I read), in someone's backyard.

[estación seca]

I can't find my notes but I hope I will eventually. Mr. Barrie said they potted in a mixture of 5 inorganic substances: Large perlite, polyfoam pellets like used for bean bag chairs, glass wool cubes, and two I can't remember. They used this mixture because they reused potting material after unpotting plants to move up into larger pots. They sanitized the old media first. I can't recall whether he said they used heat or bleach. He said they saved a lot of money on media with this approach.

[Keysguy]

I'm in with (Sarco. Kulnura Dazzel 'Midnight' x Sarco. Sweetheart 'Speckles') that I got from Tim Culbertson (via Barrita and SVO) this weekend. His talk on Sarco's was great and highly informative.

I had him pick me which cross he thought would do best. Once we got past the color option, this is what he picked. He warned me I'd likely have issues getting it to bloom well in the Keys although getting it to grow well should not be an issue.

His blooming aid suggestion was to stick it in the fridge at 40 degrees every night for 2 weeks in Nov. He thought that would work for me. He also cautioned to make sure it was dry when I did that because they HATE cold and wet.

Under lights for the summer so no stress growing until late October.

[SADE2020]

Originally Posted by camille1585

Here's mine!

how I can be!! ....

Super nice looking plants! and the Greenhouse is huge, I though it was a small place as well.

ENJOY!!!!

[OrchKid]

So my Sarcochilus olivaceous came yesterday!

They were nice enough to send a care sheet, too... although the care sheet says it shouldn’t be dry for more than 24 hrs - and they wrapped it in dry newspaper for a three-day trip.

This might be over before it started.

For now, I’ve soaked it and will see what happens.