Heating season is upon us, and the orchids hate that dry air, so I tented the tank with some clear plastic to help keep the humidity in. I have the humidifier blowing some mist into there twice a day, but without the cover, it’s pretty much gone within an hour.
I tried having the maxillaria out of there, on the shelf nearby, and it just dehydrated to prune-like state within two weeks. So back it went.
The brassidium seems to be okay with dry air, as long as it gets its water. Semi-hydro’s been working out great for that one.
So I planted some stuffs in that broken pottery skull that I bought a while back. Sedum in the nose cavity, cryptanthus in the left orbit, and a sempervivum in the right one. Put two segments from my echinopsis chamaecereus (peanut cactus) into the hole where the horn broke off. Nothing much to look at right now, but I bet it’ll be pretty in about six months if I’m lucky, and a year if I’m not.
In a fit of cleaning up my plant collection, I repotted a staghorn fern into a large bowl-shaped pot, together with a bunch of hoya cuttings I’ve been growing for about a year.
I used a mix of coarse coconut chunks and coco coir for the medium.
Both species are epiphytes, so I hope they will get along well. Guess we’ll see.
Look at this cutie! Pinguicula pirouette is blooming for me. Her tiny root system actually makes her a good candidate to live in a glass bubble. Unlike succulents, that I see in them all the time.
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