View Single Post
  #4   Report Post  
Old 15-12-2004, 10:34 PM
Al
 
Posts: n/a
Default

Doritis pulcherrima is terrestrial in nature (and maybe lythophytic: ie
growing on rocks in shallow beds of moss and humus). Never the less, it's
culture is similar to Phals which are primarily epiphytes.

The roots grow all year and it tends to produce a flush of new roots in a
collar all around the base when disturbed. This and the erect inflorescence
are some adaptations associated with a terrestrial habitat.

Can you grow it mounted? I have never seen it grown mounted. :-) It does
well in medium to coarse media that is perhaps a bit more uniformly moist
than Phals. I have no luck growing it in sphagnum moss, but this has never
made sense to me. It does well in a bark mix. It does very well in the
same type of media you might put Paphs in. I have seen it form big clumps
while grown in a High Porosity peat based "Pro-Mix" (Mud, as they call it
when Phals are grown in it) but I have never tried it this way.

It forms basal clumps very easily. It is also the one Phal-like species I
associate with "terminal spike" issues.


"wendy7" wrote in message
news:n51wd.6831$2r.4004@fed1read02...
How do you grow Doritus pulcherrima. I have read that it's culture
is like that of Phalaenopsis?
Wondering if they can be mounted as mine seems to re-root almost like
keikis & then jump out of the pot?
--
Cheers Wendy

Remove PETERPAN for email reply