Time to reconfigure the cool vivarium for winter

I gained the room back again!So the weather prognosis is predicting a lot cooler temperatures from now on, down below 10 C at night and below 20 C during the day. So I thought is was time to pack up the air conditioning unit for this season and reconfigure the cool vivarium for winter. A fairly easy job actually, I […]

Phragmipedium besseae

Phragmipedium besseaeI have been looking forward to this one all summer, it is such a strikingly beautiful flower and the first time it blooms for me. I bought it last fall and I think I actually stalled it a little bit by repotting it, but now it is fianlly blooming and it is also coming with three new shoots at the same time!

Phragmipedium besseae […]

By |2017-10-13T11:25:56+02:00August 28th, 2010|Categories: My orchids|Tags: , , , , |4 Comments

Aerangis mooreana

Aerangis mooreana
This is a lovely little epiphyte hails from the Comoros and Madagascar where it grows in humid forests from sea level to 600 meters. I got mine from the German grower Karge a couple of years ago and have since been growing it mounted in the warm vivarium. I grow it fairly bright, perhaps 10 cm from the light (9000 lumen), […]

By |2017-10-13T11:25:56+02:00August 26th, 2010|Categories: My orchids|Tags: , , , , |2 Comments

Technical difficulties

Apparently I was experiencing some technical difficulties after the transfer of this site to a new webhost last night… but it is finally back up now. Thank you for your patience!

By |2010-08-26T14:46:13+02:00August 26th, 2010|Categories: A day in the life of...|Comments Off on Technical difficulties

Masdevallia guttulata

Masdevallia guttulata
This is a small epiphyte from Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador where it grows along streams at altitudes between 400 and 1100 meters. Since it grows on pretty low altitudes it is also more tolerant to warmer temperatures and do well in intermediate culture. The small flowers are perhaps not as showy as some other Masdevallia, but […]

By |2017-10-13T11:25:56+02:00August 22nd, 2010|Categories: My orchids|Tags: , , , , |2 Comments

A humid lift for the room

Humidifier system upgradeAlright… I have spent so much time on the cool vivarium lately that I have kind of neglected the rest of the room a little. So today I took some time to spruce things up a little. The humidity delivery system needed an upgrade, so I got the humidifier all cleaned up (soaking it, well at least the membrane, in distilled vinegar), […]

By |2017-10-13T11:25:56+02:00August 21st, 2010|Categories: Projects|Tags: , , , , , |6 Comments

A pollinator with gyroscope troubles

Cattleya Dahlenburg MiniTime for orchids at summer camp – part two. My little Cattleya Dahlenburg Mini had a curious visitor yesterday while hanging outside soaking up some rays. The tiny hoverfly crawled into the flower many times before he decided that the back the flower was where all the action was. He sat there for a long time and his body was, […]

By |2017-10-13T11:25:56+02:00August 15th, 2010|Categories: A day in the life of...|Tags: , , , , |2 Comments

Prosthechea cochleata… or the clamshell octopus

Prosthechea cochleataClamshell octopus, that sounds like something our of a B-horror flick… but the common name for this species is the cockleshell or clamshell orchid, although we tend to call it the octopus orchid (bläckfiskorkidé) here in Sweden. It is not hard to see why, either name fits the bill. The flowers are about 9 cm tall and are actually quite unique as […]

By |2017-10-13T11:25:56+02:00August 8th, 2010|Categories: My orchids|Tags: , , , , |4 Comments

Phalaenopsis bellina bud drop

Phalaenopsis bellinaIt’s bellina season again… It smells lovely in the warm vivarium right now, although I think my particular clone has a pretty weak scent for a bellina. Some say one flower can fill an entire houses with its fragrance, mine is definitely a bit more shy than that but I do not mind. This species likes it hot and humid, why I keep mine in […]

By |2017-10-13T11:25:57+02:00August 5th, 2010|Categories: My orchids|Tags: , , , , , , , |6 Comments

Ecuador orchid flask baby report

Masdevallia infracta seedling (2010-07-30)It was finally time to repot the little seedlings I bought from Ecuagenera in flasks at the orchid show in Gothenburg 2008. Since deflasking them I have grown them intermediate/warm in a small mini-greenhouse and communal pots with sphagnum moss. It is recommended you grow all small seedlings, even cool growers, a bit warmer but now I thought they […]

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