Now, all interior for the new vivarium is finished. I am just going to run it overnight to check how hot it gets in there with the ceramic heatlamp (60W). Tomorrow a few orchids can move in. I am plannign on hanging some orchids on the sides and back wall then keep pots on the bottom.
Mother and child (and grandma) are doing fine. (keiki >>)
I have experimented a little with my new orchid vivarium and I have not really solved how I will heat it sufficiently… I want to keep it in my intermediate/cool growing roomwhere nighttime temp can dip down to 15 degrees in the winter. So the room temperature is definitely not helping. I am aiming for a medium temperature (at night) of 19-24 degrees inside the cabinet (while the room stays at 15-19 degrees) in the colder months.
I don’t think the heatmat I use for my flask babies […]
I was window shopping at terrariums on “blocket,” kind of a Swedish version of Craig’s list… I saw one, the guy lived 10 minutes away and I gave him an offer of half of what he was asking and he took it!! … soooo it just kind of happened….
Ehm… anyhow, the dimensions are 75cm wide 80 cm tall 40 cm deep […]
Time for another update on the flask baby project. Yesterday was a big day! The first few teenagers got to move out of the community pots and into a little pot of their own today. 🙂 Granted, I still placed them in sphagnum moss and keep them in a […]
It is slowly starting to open and the colors are really intense, and the flower looks really waxy and fleshy. I can’t wait to see the whole creation when it is open.
It is my first maxi, so it’s special.
Enjoy!
I have just uploaded the new blog design I have been working on for a few weeks now. I am still working out a few kinks with the CSS but all in all it’s all there. The real pain in the A#@!! was that the simple blog software I was using did s not have an export funtion, so I had to transfer all the posts over to this wordpress blog manually… sigh! But it […]
Roellke in Germany usually has a sale on young plants for xmas and the more plants you buy the better the price… this year a few people on the forum i frequent decided to go in on an order together. We all ordered a bunch of plants so they only cost 5 euros per plant which is a pretty good deal (almost half price). Two species we all got as a common project. […]
My lovely little mini, Ornithocephalus manabina is blooming. It has actually been blooming for quite som time but the darn little thing is near impossible to photograph!! Of course it doesn’t help much that it is living in a half-meter wide tube (the nano)…
I fell in love with this specie at the Gothenburg international Orchid Show in October, but the grower was all out of […]
I just finished reading the book I got for xmas and can warmly recommend it to orchid lovers as well as their more skeptical friends. The author tells of his experiences when meeting various orchid fanatics around the world, one chapter per person. Some chapters are a little drier than others and he really goes off on the whacked out CITES laws (but who can blame him), but the book is very engaging and sometimes […]