Moose
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Engulfed by bromeliads, I had assumed that this orchid was a goner. It was in too much shade to begin with. Then boom - looked what popped out. Looks like I need to dig it out and find another tree to mount it on.
Very nice MooseMan - I have just started in earnest on my eventual plan to get orchids mounted anyplace I can - hoping to have hundreds, if not more, everywhere in my little forest. There are so many types, varieties, and colors that I still haven't exhausted all the different ones we see at the local stores, and even Costco. So we buy them, enjoy the flowers indoors for a month or so - then move them outside to take up residence on a tree fern or other available tree trunk.
Do you guys bother to fertilize yours? And if so, how do you do it?
I am finding out that the Phalenopsis (Moth Orchids, like Scott's above), are much more tolerant of cooler weather than I imagined, or have been lead to believe. Over the last two years I have taken all of the ones that stopped blooming, after serving as "temporary" house plants, and placed them out in the garden on tree fern trunks etc. I gave them a little attention this time to see what would happen. Now I have just noticed, many of them are sending up new spikes and leaves. I thought these were strictly full-on tropical, but seem to be doing much better in my "cooler" location than I ever thought possible.
Just goes to show that you never really know what will grow for you unless you try. I think too many of us have been discouraged based on marginal information. So, push that envelope. What do you have to lose?
Moose,Here is a Vanda growing around the trunk of a Bismarckia.
Moose,
How did you "attach" that one? Did you place it on or near the ground, and it grew up. Or did you tie it to the tree and just let it hang on? I'm so used to seeing those roots just hang down from baskets I never knew they were such avid attachers and climbers. Are all those roots Vanda roots?
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