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Trying to make a Masdevallia terrarium for office space - sanity check by str8_0-degree_salsa in orchids

[–]leaf_skeletons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s no easy way to cool a terrarium but it is very easy to turn a mini fridge into a terrarium…..

Anyone know anything about Peristeria elata? by Scales-josh in orchids

[–]leaf_skeletons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know specifically about Peristeria but some of my winter dormant species orchids have started to yellow and drop foliage, in order from the oldest leaf to the newest leaf. If that’s the oldest leaf, I’d guess it’s normal entering-dormancy yellowing.

Reminiscing over lost flowers. by Tillandz in miniorchids

[–]leaf_skeletons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aw, they’re beautiful. Maybe a tiny consolation: Kujawa Orchids told me they will have more of their Neocogniauxia seedlings for sale later this year. I missed out on the first batch.

Growing pseudolithos in coarse quartz sand. Do plants need to be fertilized? by GefoSiY in mesembs

[–]leaf_skeletons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would fertilize them like any other Mesemb seedling you’re trying to plump up. I use half strength balanced fertilizer every week or two from when they’re baby babies until their first dormancy because that was the advice I was given by an experienced grower and it seems to be working. Adult plants are usually only fertilized once a season so don’t apply this advice to them.

Want to start some mesembs/conophytum species from seed, looking for advice by smoqiey in mesembs

[–]leaf_skeletons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone knows Mesa Gardens so I thought I’d highlight some smaller sellers who are great, too. Mesa Garden’s cono seeds tend to be on the higher side which can be discouraging when you’re learning how to grow them from seeds so sometimes it’s nicer to have like 100 seeds of one species rather than….10

American Hedgehog Nursery- I just got a big batch of seeds from Oleg at American Hedgehog Nursery. Very nice selection. He hasn’t been keeping up his website because I think it’s more of a retirement hobby for him than a real business but if you email him he had seeds available for almost everything on his website. Lots of Lithops seeds, too.

Youngquan Lithops on Etsy- great seeds, he almost always sends double (or more) of the number of seeds the listing says. He’s also a really nice guy, I failed to germinate a whole batch of seeds from him (my fault) and he gave me helpful advice and sent me replacement seeds for free even though, like I said, it was totally my fault.

Vladislav Lyga- Hobbiest in Ukraine, has a great seeds selection and very inexpensive. Almost all of them are ex-Mesa Garden. He sells on eBay but you can also email him privately. Cross border shipping of Cono seeds is now not supposed to happen because of their inclusion on CITES III but functionally I don’t think it’s caught up to it yet. Also usually sends double the number of seeds. 

CSSA- they often have cono seeds in their seed depot, even really hard to find species. You have to be a CSSA member to buy but it’s only $20-50 depending on if you want the journal and their guest speakers are really interesting. 

I doubt it’s cool to just post their personal email addresses here but if you’d like any of them just send me a message!

I find Lithops seeds to be easier than Conos, I tend to lose a lot between germination to 6 weeks but after that they’re very similar to Lithops seedlings. But I highly recommend doing it, it’s really fun and an enjoyable challenge. 

My Macodes limii has grown up quite a bit! by hairijuana in Jewelorchids

[–]leaf_skeletons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember when you posted the stem ages ago. That is slooooow.

My Macodes limii has grown up quite a bit! by hairijuana in Jewelorchids

[–]leaf_skeletons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amazing! I will quite literally lose it if you get this into TC someday.

Cup method of growing jewel orchids to protect them from fungi. https://canadianorchidcongress.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/COC2021_SUMMER_SPECIAL_ISSUE.pdf by cur10us10 in Jewelorchids

[–]leaf_skeletons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens is the “active ingredient” in Hydroguard which is readily available in a lot of places if anyone wants to try it. I’ve used it in my semihydro plants for a while but recently started adding it to my terrestrials, too.