Well I use a combination of bark, sphagnum, charcoal and seaweedlime. I use
it for all my plants and they all like it except the Phal's and paph's. It's
the same medium as a professional grower that I know, uses.

I keep a 112 plants in a windowsill and about 60 plants in a mini greenhouse
that I have made out of plastic and 2 wooden racks. There are ventilators
and a fog machine, just to get the air moving and the humidity up.
The light comes from the east, west north and from above. the plants react
well to it, there are now burn marks or any rot whatsoever. In the mini
greenhouse the temperature is about 25-30°C during the summer and during the
winter it goes down to 16-18°C. The humidity is somewhere between 70-95 RHS.
The windowsill is a lot dryer so I chose those plants very carefully. My
cattleya's likes it there and so do my dendrobium's.

My cold plants go outside in the summer and I have a cool place for them
during the winter.

I fertilise my plants every two weeks and when they're actively growing I
sometimes give them a little bit of honey in the water. It's tap water and
I let it stand for a night. I have no other water right now.

Finaly I use stone pots for all my plants. For some reason plastic pots
don't do well at my place. The roots start to rot and the plants just don't
seem to like them.

That's about it.
Peter


"Geir Harris Hedemark" schreef in bericht
...
"Diane Mancino" writes:
If a typical European home you usually keep your home cooler than we do
in
the US at 65-70 F, maybe not warm enough, but everything else your
growing
would need similar conditions- maybe too much light?

Possibly. I have given phals everything from 3000 to 10000 lux. They
don't survive either way.

What medium and pots do you have your paphs and phal in.?

I never get them to hang around long enough for repotting to be an
issue, so for my part it's the shop-delivered moss/bark mix with
plastic pots.

Geir