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Golden Gate Orchids - Dendrobium Lavender Star - lovely burgundy flowers
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Golden Gate Orchids - Dendrobium Lavender Star - lovely burgundy flowers
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:48:48 -0800, Eric Hunt wrote
(in article ) : This guy is 3/4 Den alexanderae and 1/4 Den bigibbum. Great series, Eric. Is the M. glandulosa as nubbly as it looks? I have to learn how to grow Masdevallias. Tom Walnut Creek, CA Nikon D70, D200 |
Golden Gate Orchids - Dendrobium Lavender Star - lovely burgundy flowers
Tom,
Yup, it is. BUT - the flower is a little less than an inch across, about 2 inches counting the tails. BUT BUT - a well grown plant can be covered in flowers. It is a cool grower and will drop leaves if the nightime temp is too high. There are more and more warmth tolerant Masdevallias out there - you'll have fun growing them! -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org "tbell" wrote in message .com... Great series, Eric. Is the M. glandulosa as nubbly as it looks? I have to learn how to grow Masdevallias. |
Golden Gate Orchids - Dendrobium Lavender Star - lovely burgundy flowers
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:14:12 -0800, Eric Hunt wrote
(in article ): Tom, Yup, it is. BUT - the flower is a little less than an inch across, about 2 inches counting the tails. BUT BUT - a well grown plant can be covered in flowers. It is a cool grower and will drop leaves if the nightime temp is too high. There are more and more warmth tolerant Masdevallias out there - you'll have fun growing them! -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org "tbell" wrote in message .com... Great series, Eric. Is the M. glandulosa as nubbly as it looks? I have to learn how to grow Masdevallias. Thanks for the response. I'm fine during the cool months, and at night most any time of year, but Summer afternoon and evening temps in my GH can at times get up to 90š F. Does that preclude Masdevallias? Tom Walnut Creek, CA Nikon D70, D200 |
Golden Gate Orchids - Dendrobium Lavender Star - lovely burgundy flowers
"tbell" wrote in message
.com... On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:14:12 -0800, Eric Hunt wrote (in article ): Tom, Yup, it is. BUT - the flower is a little less than an inch across, about 2 inches counting the tails. BUT BUT - a well grown plant can be covered in flowers. It is a cool grower and will drop leaves if the nightime temp is too high. There are more and more warmth tolerant Masdevallias out there - you'll have fun growing them! -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org "tbell" wrote in message .com... Great series, Eric. Is the M. glandulosa as nubbly as it looks? I have to learn how to grow Masdevallias. Thanks for the response. I'm fine during the cool months, and at night most any time of year, but Summer afternoon and evening temps in my GH can at times get up to 90s F. Does that preclude Masdevallias? Tom Walnut Creek, CA Nikon D70, D200 Well, now, this is a subject. Two DVOS members grow their masdevallias outside. They both live within a few blocks of me. (I'm near Hidden Lakes Park at Morello and Chilpancingo in Pleasant Hill, if that helps). We are not in any sort of a protected area. It gets hot and dry here, just like the rest of CC County, and our water just comes out of the tap. (CCWD) Dennis has a large wooden tub of Masdevallia coccinea outside on his front doorstep. Its micro climate is that the front doorstep is 4-5 steps of solid poured concrete, so it is always the coolest part of the house (it just takes too much energy to heat up that rock of concrete) and (he says the door faces south, I think it faces east) the area is mostly shaded, plus becasue os the shade the area is a bit moist (teh automated sprinklers don't actually reach the steps/sidewalk, but the yard is always nicely green and groomed, so there's a bit of ambient humidity. Now, he's not growing award quality coccineas, but they grow large and bloom large flowers. Coccineas come from peru near Macchu Picchu - cool growres. Diana lives in a condo with a west facing patio that burns up just about everything, but she fashioned some sort of a slat house and has managed to get her phals togrow and bloom well. Her entryway is where she grows her masdevallias and some bulbos, too, IIRC. Again its protected and a heat sink but the light bounces around in the entryway just enough to get the masds to bloom their fool heads off. She brought in one that Dennis and I were sure would have gotten a culture award. She's doing *great*. So, my point is that if you can find/create the right space you can bloom some of these outside. My friend Barbara has been growign her L purpuratas outside in a slat house she has on the north side of her house. She also has her bonsai collection there, so she's always outside watering them and just adds a bit for the laelias. Where there's a will there's a way. Makes me feel like a dang fool for spending the bucks on a GH. K Barrett |
Golden Gate Orchids - Dendrobium Lavender Star - lovely burgundy flowers
Tom,
What Kathy said! Seriously, she's got the best "from the horse's mouth" advice for your area. -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org "tbell" wrote in message .com... On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:14:12 -0800, Eric Hunt wrote (in article ): Tom, Yup, it is. BUT - the flower is a little less than an inch across, about 2 inches counting the tails. BUT BUT - a well grown plant can be covered in flowers. It is a cool grower and will drop leaves if the nightime temp is too high. There are more and more warmth tolerant Masdevallias out there - you'll have fun growing them! -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org "tbell" wrote in message .com... Great series, Eric. Is the M. glandulosa as nubbly as it looks? I have to learn how to grow Masdevallias. Thanks for the response. I'm fine during the cool months, and at night most any time of year, but Summer afternoon and evening temps in my GH can at times get up to 90s F. Does that preclude Masdevallias? Tom Walnut Creek, CA Nikon D70, D200 |
Golden Gate Orchids - Dendrobium Lavender Star - lovely burgundy flowers
LOL! Well, as always, case selection determines results. I've had more
success with things like Masd Redwing and Masd John Tomascke. (http://www.aospacificcentral.org/Oak...tomaschke.html) I think the leaves are a little more leathery (water storage) than someof the finer ones like most of the Angel Frost line. (If I'd water occasionally I'd have better success even still! LOL!) Golden Gate has a Masd Cinnamon Twist that I've been a-hankering for, it has (I think) abacayana in the background and so is a bit more tolerant. http://www.aospacificcentral.org/SFJ...dcintwist.html K Barrett "Eric Hunt" wrote in message ... Tom, What Kathy said! Seriously, she's got the best "from the horse's mouth" advice for your area. -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org "tbell" wrote in message .com... On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:14:12 -0800, Eric Hunt wrote (in article ): Tom, Yup, it is. BUT - the flower is a little less than an inch across, about 2 inches counting the tails. BUT BUT - a well grown plant can be covered in flowers. It is a cool grower and will drop leaves if the nightime temp is too high. There are more and more warmth tolerant Masdevallias out there - you'll have fun growing them! -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org "tbell" wrote in message .com... Great series, Eric. Is the M. glandulosa as nubbly as it looks? I have to learn how to grow Masdevallias. Thanks for the response. I'm fine during the cool months, and at night most any time of year, but Summer afternoon and evening temps in my GH can at times get up to 90s F. Does that preclude Masdevallias? Tom Walnut Creek, CA Nikon D70, D200 |
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