So hard to photograph these little buds, but I wanted to take a shot to show how tiny the buds are!

http://www.lienluu.com/sof/oaxaca.jpg

Wow Lien, those are wee! I wondered when you mentioned the other day how small they were, so I thank you for posting.

You've got quite the stolonorific little plant there! :D Lovely foliage, I think.

Very tiny!

Actually, I think this photo shows it even better. This is a regular pencil next to the buds that are just starting to open.

http://www.lienluu.com/sof/ox1.JPG

and a shot of the entire plant, very prolific grower!

http://www.lienluu.com/sof/ox2.JPG

Wow that is awesome lien! I need to get one of these!

NICE...I need one as well. :clap:

I think those are neat plants even if the blooms only are less than 2cm. An Antec distributor sold a seedling today on eBay for around 35 and I've seen larger ones go for a lot more while surfing. Compared to most other orchids, that one does seem a bit tough to please with media conditions though.

wow! nice :clap:

Thats a great little plant . I passed one up on Sat. because I had bought others and the price was a little high I thought for the plant but for an in bloom plant I guess $100.00 was the right price. Ray

Is that a 4" pot!? What's the potting media made of? How often do you water it?

I had one that attained 15 or so growths, but new growths were always on the end of long stiff 4 to 5 inch stoloniferous runners and there is no way I could have kept that plant in a 4" pot; each new growth was a whole pot size further from the previous one. I was always afraid if I tried to bend the runners back around to the same pot to root that they would snap. I am wondering if your culture, which looks like it is somewhat wetter than the way I grew it, has something to do with how compact it grows.

Hi Al,

It's in a 6" pot with 2 blooming growths, 5 old growths, 5 half grown growths and a bunch of new stolens starting.

I had just watered before I took the photo, which is why it seemed so moist :) I do grow it on the drier side with high light.

I found that if you let the rhizomes harden they're much more flexible. Newer growing rhizomes are very brittle but once they mature and harden and form that brown outer sheath you can bend them fairly easily. On a few occasions, i've snapped the rhizome and just left it without any ill-effects. I also pin the new growths down with a modified paperclip. I just clip the paperclips off at the bottom so that they form two U-shaped things and I use that to anchor the new growths down.

Some new growths just grow too far up in the air to do anything with and those I just leave alone. I find that not every growht needs to have roots, as long as its attached to the main plant.

Here's a photo:

http://www.lienluu.com/sof/ox3.jpg

Here's a photo of a broken rhizome that i left after i broke it:

http://www.lienluu.com/sof/ox4.jpg

A six inch pot is only a little less surprising.
For comparison, here is a picture of mine
Phrag. xerophyticum ('Oaxaca', CBR/AOS x 'Windy Hill' HCC/AOS)

it is growing in a shallow 18" flat made from 1/2 plastic wire sheet I got at the hardware store. You can see how this little puppy likes to roam. I grow mine in 20% shade, (very bright) and very dry. Very far from my other "Phrags"


http://www.orchidexchange.com/images/web340c.jpg

It looks like our plants have more or less the same number of growths but yours is definately much more spread out. I don't have too much space, so i have to force mine to grow in as small a pot as possible!

You should try (if you want) to play with bending the rhizomes, but wait until they are mature enough so that they have those brown sheaths covering the rhizome, rather than red/green and growing. They're very brittle at that stage and become quite flexible once they've matured.

I just add a little sheet moss under the new growth (to help it root) and pin down with the clips.

Lien

very different :clap2: