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Originally Posted by FL_Orchid_Collector
There was another Dracula in the same pot and I've mounted it in a drier location where I need to mist it but it looks like the lighting is a bit too low or I'm not watering enough (I've been letting it dry or almost dry - I'm thinking about going daily but I've had a leaf rot already so I'm hesitant), and it's growing very slowly.
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Dracs like to be pretty wet. They don't grow fast... Mine are growing under very different conditions... outside. In plastic baskets with sphagnum, in a shady area that gets watered daily, so the sphag stays quite damp. Don't know how that translates to your "tank" but their roots definitely don't like "dry". Maybe more sphag on the mount? Would keep the roots wetter while letting the leaves dry. Mine seem to put up with the heat during the day but appreciate the nightly cool-down. (The flowers are open in the morning, partially collapse during the heat of the day, and open up again the next morning)