Ted,

Zygos are notorious for rotting (including in S/H) if the rhizome is planted
too deeply, so I'd guess the zygoneria is similar. Keep it no lower than
the medium surface or slightly elevated.

Soak the LECA at least 24 hours before potting up, or it will take weeks to
stabilize its moisture content in the pot.

If you have the GreenCare MSU fertilizer, it is designed for use at 125 ppm
N at every watering. It does little good to dilute it to 25%, other than
starve your plant.

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"Ted" wrote in message
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Well, I attended the COOS show in Cambridge Ontario yesterday. Great
show, and I took some nice pcitures. Since I am presently using
google, I don't have access to the abpo, so I'll look into putting them
opn my website. I didn't take down the details of the dislays, but
maybe I can get that from COOS and some of the growers/societies that
put up displays. In almost all cases, the owner of the display is
legible, so from that the IDs of the orchids visible should be
obtainable from the folk who put up the displays. Lots of awarded
plants.

And I picked up some vigourous catts, bare root, at a price that I
won't care if they end up as compost fodder, so I'll try them in
semihydro too.

I got plenty of clay pellets to use in semi-hydro, and the first plant
on the list to be put in semihydro is this Zygo. cross.

The bad news I got yesterday is that what I am seeing is not normal.
Instead, it is really bad in that the leaves that died were destined to
produce a new pseudobulb. The most likely explanantion appears to be
that it didn't like have the base of those leaves in contact with the
moss the plant was potted in. The alternate explanation was that I got
water trapped in the leaves, but I am careful to apply water only to
the surface of the growing medium. Tomorrow, it will be the first
plant I work with, and I'll remove all the dea material, soak the clay
pellets in water, pot this plant up in the pellets and give it a
quarter strength watering with the MSU fertilizer. Hopefully it will
send out new roots first, and then one or more of the eyes on the back
bulbs will sprout new leaves for new pseudobulbs.

Cheers,

Ted


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