Phrag Court Jester

yeah, i kept my first phrag (also from woodstream) in a puddle (at their suggestion); it was a seedling that they said would bloom in 12-18 mos.

i got a jason fischer seedling from them last summer and s/h-ed it in november; it, OTOH, is taking it's own sweet time doing *anything.*

--j_a

In general Phrags LOVE S/H and they like more light than most growers give them. Could be yours needs another site. A little fertilizer to equal the additional light and it will take off. SuE

hmm. it's in an eastern window with the phals and the other phrag in MD 6b. it gets MSU at -counts on fingers- 1.5 tsp/gal drench 3 out of 4 waterings. (75-100 ppm? i'd have to look at the bottle.) i'd really like it to grow more roots, but the green parts are growing, albeit very slowly. i just put it down to being half species; anything i have that's half or more species progresses very slowly.

--j_a

Mine is in an eastern window too. I've been thinking of trying S/H with a few of the plants, but haven't actually done it yet. I assume that with the relatively low light levels available to the plants I have, I would need to keep the amount of fertilizer low. I have been checking out Ray's info on S/H. The orchids I'm thinking of moving into S/H are the Phrag, a division of a Pleurothallis grobyii, and one of my Paph delanati. I'm not sure about my Brassidium Lillian Okra - it's already big enough! I'm also worried about the light because of the new windows - low E glass - cutting back on the already just adequate lighting. I'm getting good growth and flowering with a Soph. cernua and a Christieara, but the Brassidium only flowered once, a NOID Paph hasen't flowered in a while and the Phals (also NOID) have fewer flowers than before. However, the other variable - fertilizer - I haven't fed them much in the past year. I brought Dyna-Gro (grow formula)and am using that now. I guess I'll find out over the next year. I'm starting to collect cacti - Gymnocalyciums mostly, because they're easy to grow and flower. And they look cool too. I have a G. pflanzii that I've had for several years and it flowers every summer. I just got what I think is a G. ragonesei. I was surprised that the big cactus vendor at the Philly flower show didn't have any tags on their plants (that I saw). All the orchid vendors did. I am also going to try an Echinodorus tenellus (Pigmy Chain Sword) in a water tight pot in the window. I believe it grows in the wild partially emersed (at least part of the year). I wonder - it may also be a good candidate for S/H? Anyway, thanks for listening! Bob Campoli - Philadelphia, Pa