As luck would have it, I was browsing through the Alec Pridgeon book yesterday, and actually read the text on Coryanthes species - he said that they typically grow in ant nests, so should be grown very acid with a lot of fertilizer to mimic the natural habitat. I live in the deep south, USA, and was on the verge of buying a mature plant early this spring at a show; two of my society friends dragged me away from the vendor. They said practically everyone has killed one, and nobody has ever had one bloom (or, it has chosen to die), including one of our members who operates a commmercial GH and can grow everything, literally. So, I got a seedling-size plant for $5 in March. It is still alive and is growing, mounted on TX grapevine. I've been treating it like all the others, except a weekly spray of seaweed with a buffer to lower the pH. I think I will try to go more acid and stronger fertilizer, and see. For what it's worth - Nancy
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