Karma, Author at orchidkarma

Day 12: Planning the nano…

Now the fun begins… the planning of the orchidarium. Naturally the size is very limited so I will have to study up on mini orchids. Fun fun.

I was looking at warm growing mini-masdevallias: Masdevallia lata, m. naranjapatae, m. pelecaniceps, m. weberbaueri, m. collina, m. cuprea, . guerrieroi, m. gutierrezii, m. guttulata, m. kuhniorum, m. norae, m. revoluta, m. tubuliflora, m. vieirana…

Or maybe a few of these: Leptotes unicolor, Maxillaria juergensii, Maxillaria variabilis ‘red’, Ornithocephalus manabina, […]

By Karma|2008-10-16T17:29:49+02:00October 16th, 2008|Categories: Projects|Tags: nano build, Nano-vivarium|Comments Off

Day 13: Making the selection

I have – after reading about minis until I am blue in the face – finally made my selection! Orchids and More in Germany had a really good selection and the prices were also much better than some other growers I found. I have just placed an order for the following:

Ascolabium pumilum
Ornithocephalus manabina
Leptotes unicolor
Masdevallia tuerckheimii
Masdevallia guttulata
Masdevallia herradurae
Maxillaria juergensii

Then I […]

By Karma|2008-10-16T15:38:44+02:00October 16th, 2008|Categories: Projects|Tags: mini-orchids, Nano-vivarium|Comments Off

Day 11: The nano-inspired orchidarium is done!!

Ok. Here are a few notes on the build… I have had requests for a detailed outline for how to build this so I hope this will suffice.

All in all… you can buy a beautiful nano vivarium from Dusk, so unless you are pretty dedicated and is willing to put in a lot of hours it would probably be better to go with a premade one. That said, I think my design is really nice, […]

By Karma|2017-10-13T11:26:20+02:00October 16th, 2008|Categories: Projects|Tags: nano build, Nano-vivarium|5 Comments

Day 10: aaahhh the circles are done!

After a few days of collecting my energy, the circles are now cut and done! It wasn’t really that bad, 1 hour of consistent sawing with a fine-toothed metal cutting saw. It turned out pretty good actually.

Yes! It will work.

By Karma|2008-10-11T23:14:57+02:00October 11th, 2008|Categories: Projects|Tags: nano build, Nano-vivarium|Comments Off

UK orchid babies (01): 10 weeks

After about a month I decided to rearrange in the nursery a little bit to get better humidity and to solv the temperature issues I have been dealing with…. it’s been working out really well.

I replanted the babies in tin cooking forms, then filled the mini-greenhouse bottom with leca and water. The leca works as an insulator, so now […]

By Karma|2017-10-13T11:26:20+02:00October 9th, 2008|Categories: Flask babies, Projects|Tags: Equatorial Plants, flask babies, orchid|Comments Off

UK orchid babies: 3 weeks

After three weeks, everyone is looking great!!

My only concern is the temperature in the nurseries. I will start bringing down the temp in the growing room at night soon and it will definitely be too cold for these little ones. So I have installed a heating pad, like you would use to heat terrariums for reptiles. It […]

By Karma|2017-10-13T11:26:20+02:00October 9th, 2008|Categories: Flask babies, Projects|Tags: Equatorial Plants, flask babies, orchid|Comments Off

Ecuador orchid babies: 1 week

I picked up my 3 flasks from Ecuagenera in Ecuador at the Gothenburg International Orchid show this weekend. The Masdies looked good (decumana and infracta), but the Dracula cordobae came with a 2 cm large spot of mold in the agar. So I had to deflask the little ones right away, too bad […]

By Karma|2017-10-13T11:26:21+02:00October 9th, 2008|Categories: Flask babies, Projects|Tags: Dracula cordobae, Ecuagenera, flask babies, orchid|Comments Off

UK babies: Day 1

The babies arrived from Equatorial Plants in Durham UK by the end of August 2008. I had arranged a large order (50+ hobby flasks) together with some virtual friends on an orchid forum I frequent. It was quite s bit of logistics to pull together but it was fun.

I had 5 flasks with about 5 babies in each for myself in the order. They were technically not really flasks as the guys had […]

By Karma|2017-10-13T11:26:21+02:00October 9th, 2008|Categories: Projects|Tags: Equatorial Plants, flask babies, orchid|Comments Off

Day 7: Back to hell …making circles

It seems it will be a rather costly ordeal to get circles cut by a professional… so I am thinking I will have to do it myself after all. What a bitch!

I think that the thinner 1,5 mm thick PVC I used for the tube is too thin to support for the lid/bottom so I am back to tackling the 3 mm PVC […]

By Karma|2017-10-13T11:26:21+02:00October 8th, 2008|Categories: Projects|Tags: nano build, Nano-vivarium|Comments Off

Day 6: Sealing the clay pipe

I decided that I needed to seal the clay pipe on the bottom so I can take out the pipe without creating a swimming pool in my livingroom (somewhat of an overstatement but you get the idea). The best solution seemed to simply glue a clay plant saucer to the bottom with some constructuion adhesive.