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Miltonia, Vuylstekeara, and Miltonidium
I grow warm/intermediate orchids. As newbie, I foolishly bought some
Miltonia, Vuylstekeara, and Miltonidium orchids because they were beautiful and I was hopeful and the vendors told me they were easy to grow. (There's a lesson here.) The Miltonia did great over winter then died when the summer heat in the sunroom became too high. However, the Miltonidium next to her grew very well and even rebloomed. The Miltonidium (Rosy Sunset) stayed in the sunroom until July, then I moved it to the living room, which gets A/C and is cooler in general--from reading the AOS literature, I knew that the plant wouldn't like the low humidity, but it was a tradeoff between the plant cooking in the sunroom and having low humidity in the livingroom. Suprisingly, it did very well and now has three bloom spikes. It is a robust plant. The Vuylstekearas (two of them, both Mary Kavanaugh) looked as if they were going South and were buggy to boot, so in desperation, I nuked the insects and then put them in PrimeAgra. (Yes, I know that you're only supposed to pot plants when they're in active growth, but I was desperate.) Then I put them outside for the summer. The Vuylstekearas are still alive, but they are the rattiest looking plants that I've got--shrivelled pseudobulbs and streaked leaves from various pest/diseases and a wind storm. The healthier of the two, which I brought indoors last week, actually has a rather pathetic bud. Since all these plants are in the Odontogloss/Oncidium alliance, I would have thought that they would have reacted similarly to my environment. Guess not. It's probably a miracle that any of them survived my care. Has anyone who's an intermediate/warm grower had luck with Vuylstekearas? I'm at the point of thinking that I should donate them to person who's a cool grower, rather than continuing to torture these plants. |
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