Orchids for FOLIAGE

[Mantellaprince20]

Originally Posted by mitcholito

@ Mantellaprince - Are you planning to keep these in a cooled viv? Because all of the shown are strictly cold growing from 2000 meters or above. Just so you dont put them in a normal temperated viv =)

no worries my man, i've got it covered..... and only 1 is listed as only occurring over 1800meters . The lanium is actually a warm-hot grower, and I have had great success growing Dresselerella. I'll admit the myoxanthus is the only genus I haven't worked with and haven't had success stories for yet, so I will keep it with my cold growing masde's until I can determine how it does.

[curlykid]

lol @ me i thought it was normal for the Dryadella leaves to be purple. frogparty, is the bacteria you mentioned symbiotic with the orchid? Or is it not a bacteria at all and a chemical in the orchid's leaf structure? thanks. PS i'm sure it's not harmful because the orchid has been flowering vigorously and still some more to come! i love it's flowers.

[TDK]

Here's a couple of photos of a stump I have orchids planted on and keep in my garden window in the kitchen above the sink. I can't tell you the plant names but thought someone might find it interesting.

[frogparty]

Anthocyanin is produced by the plant. Non hArmful

[EPI]

Originally Posted by TDK

Here's a couple of photos of a stump I have orchids planted on and keep in my garden window in the kitchen above the sink. I can't tell you the plant names but thought someone might find it interesting.

TDK, that is very healthy looking! Are you getting them to bloom?

[TDK]

Some of them sometimes. right now Max. variablis is blooming (yellow) and an orange Sopronitis. The Bulbophyllum frostii blooms also.

[Shinosuke]

Originally Posted by TDK

Here's a couple of photos of a stump I have orchids planted on and keep in my garden window in the kitchen above the sink. I can't tell you the plant names but thought someone might find it interesting.

That is really interesting! Would you give us some more info on what this is / how you made it and how you keep it? I'd love to have a living, beautiful piece of art like that in my home.

Originally Posted by flyingSquirrel

Dresslerella pilosissima

Spiffy. Is that viv-friendly?

[frogparty]

A Viv is probably the best place for that plant

[TDK]

[QUOTE=Shinosuke;697110]That is really interesting! Would you give us some more info on what this is / how you made it and how you keep it? I'd love to have a living, beautiful piece of art like that in my home.



My neighbor had a stump he collected in the woods from behind his house and it was an interesting piece and I was able to talk him out of it. I keep it in a garden window in a tray with a tray underneath for some evaporation/humidity. It has natural South Western exposure plus fluorescents for lighting. It's also over the kitchen sink that helps some. It's just orchids I've bought over the years and some a friend gave me. I usually add an orchid by bunching some sphagnum moss and stapling the moss onto the stump then put a bunch over the roots and staple again until it roots to the stump. Smaller one I use the sphagnum but wrap to the wood with fishing line. Large orchids on the bottom, medium in the middle and smaller ones on top. You could do the same thing in a terrarium and control the humidity and lighting better. I usually mist ever day or every other day. The first photo is more recent and you can see how it has filled in.

[flyingSquirrel]

I got it.

Pleurothallis resupinata





And for size reference