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To all Paph sanderianum growers
I split a flask from Sam w/ a friend. We asked him to ship w/ agar on the
roots. Plants were beautiful when they arrived - big and in excellent condition. We potted them up in one big compot (agar and all) in seedling bark mix. My friend was moving fairly soon (and opening an orchid business ) so he only kept them in the compot for a month or 2 then potted them up. In retrospect, I would have grown them on in the compot much longer... anyway, we got I think 27 plants. I took 14 and he took 13. I have 12 still alive although one is just hanging on. They're growing well but slowly - I think they're around 3 inches across max now. I grow them in a mostly enclosed table w/ 3 levels of plants. each level is 8' x 3' and has 16 4' flourescent tubes... Temp goes down to maybe 65 at night and up to 80 or so in the day from the lights. Humidity ranges from 90-95 at night down to 75 or so during the day. I water 2x per week and have been experimenting w/ different fertiliziers and am currently using something suggested by Antec labs - a Michigan State University formula purchased from Robert's Flower Supply. It has good quantities of macro nutrients including Mg and Ca which is lacking in the water here in Seattle (33 ppm of TDS right out of the tap). So, they're growing well although if they'd stayed in the compot a bit longer, I think they'd be doing better but who knows. Oh, last bit, I have REALLY good (maybe too good) airflow in the table - one of those whirl fans or whatever they're called on each level - top and bottom going to the right, middle to the left. Good luck! ps: just start w/ the Sanders "Elpaninaro" wrote in message ... Good evening all, I posted here about this time last year to see about getting a group together to guide ourselves through some of Sam's flasks of sanderianum. Unfortunately, an extended illness and eventual death in the family kept me from proceeding as planned, but I am now ready to get back to work on this. Going to order a couple of basic flasks (sukhakulii and maybe the new PEOY or lowii) in a couple of weeks and do some testing before I do the real deal in 8-10 weeks or so. Hopefully this is where I will figure out if there are any imminent threats in my apartment to small seedlings (ie fungus or pests) that I am not currently aware of. And if I am lucky, they will be resolved and I will have all the more seedlings to consume my living space In the mean time, would love to hear from others about your success and obstacles to date. I have saved some of our earlier emails and have been reading the info again wondering how everyone's game plan worked out- especially in terms of survival rates in the first few months. From what I have gathered and prepared from last year- seems I am covered except on the matter of temperature. I am thinking of getting a small space heater to run in the apartment right by the shelf to keep around an 80-85 degree range (my apartment runs 68 most of the time.) Any thoughts on that? Has temperature been a big issue for any of you with these seedlings? Looking forward to finally joining the struggle! Take care, Tom. |
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