water culture miltonopsis in Moscow :lol:

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Wow! Or did you just break off a division of a milt, and put it in the jar to amaze us? :poke: That is great, any luck with other genera? Never have to worry about watering, how do you use fertilizer? Thanks for sharing!

Interesting.

I've seen this done with Phrags, actually, though I know of several that didn't like it much (posted at other forums) Some one at GW has I think mayb a Don Wimber that looked pretty happy though.

Tadd, I think you have to change the water fairly frequently.

That is something...
I have a Phrag. richteri in a jar that doesn't look too bad. I make sure the water only covers the lower half of the roots and doesn't get near the base of the plant to prevent rot. The roots wick the water anyway so you don't have to completely submerge them. I also use a drop of MelaFix in the water...it's a natural bacteriacide made from melaleuca that is sold for aquariasts, but it works well in keeping the water fresher. I only change water when I remember to, usually once a week at most...but that is probably not the ideal.
I only tried it because a while back I had them coming out my ears when a compot of "amazonica" matured...couldn't give them away fast enough. So one went into the mini vase when I heard of someone growing pearcei in an aquarium filter. Fun experiment, but I wouldn't try it with your prize plant. Another thing on the photo list...sorry for being so slow lately.

Jon

In the jar one pseudobulb is put.
In 9 months it has blossomed.
Now prepares for the second, more potent, to flowering (in year after the first).
Generally nobody trusts me :) , but here there is no dirty trick.
In water at me this plant grows only. On experience, only this genus is good for a water culture. Hybrid paph in water, at me was lost :cry:
Once a week water varies. In flow of week - it is added. Supplementary feeding 1-2 times a month, conventional fertilizers.
I bring apologies for bad English. :embarass:

Interesting.

I've seen this done with Phrags, actually, though I know of several that didn't like it much (posted at other forums) Some one at GW has I think mayb a Don Wimber that looked pretty happy though.

Tadd, I think you have to change the water fairly frequently.

Actually the only way I could grow Dendrobium phalaenopsis (or bigibbum) was to grow them in pure water culture. It works for a lot of different kinds of orchids. I think the 'semi-hydroponic' method might be a little easier though, it is hard to keep the plants from sinking to the bottom in pure water! *grin*