At 11:10 AM 4/15/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>*********** >What have been your successes and failures with North American terrestrials >? >How long have you been able to grow a North American terrestrial before it >died ? >Any species your would recommend that, properly grown, should last 'forever' >? > >*********** I have had pretty good success with many of the acid bog-loving terrestrials (rescues from construction and other human activity). You have to make sure that they stay moist at all times and get full sunlight. If grown in pots, they should be protected from extreme cold (such that it would freeze through the pot - temps of 20 degrees F or lower). The one orchid that I would most heartily recommend is Pogonia ophioglossoides. It is nearly impossible to keep it too moist, so setting the pot in a shallow dish of water and keeping it filled will keep this orchid happy. It also has the lovely habit of reproducing vegetatively, so the number of flowering stems of a properly grown plant will increase over the years...sort of like a terrestrial pleurothallid. Here is a photo of Dr. Wil Neptune's plant... all those growths are from one original individual: http://www.orchidspecies.com/orphotdir/pogoophisioglossa.jpg ---Prem www.premdesign.com _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
