Interesting. Both Dalton and Peter let their Ddc wenzeliis get cold at night, 8C and 5C in winter... There may be hope for my intermediate conditions yet! Thanks to everyone who responded. I've become an armchair traveller thanks to the information super highway. I googled Philippine geography and found a wonderful coral reef habitat protected by the UN as well as interesting rounded dome-like hillocks on Cebu. Learn something new every day! K Barrett N Calif, USA > From: Dalton Holland Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Subject: Re: [OGD] > Dendrochilum habitat question> I have been growing my D. wenzelii outside all > year around, potted in > osmunda. It's been like this for 4 years and is > growing very well and > blooming wonderfully.> > The area where I live has > temperatures like 32C - 20C (day-night) during > the Summer and 20 - 5C > during the Winter.> > I water it every other day during the Winter (for this > area is very dry > then) and every three days during the Summer, unless it > rains.> > It is under 70% screen and takes rains.> > Dalton> > K Barrett > escreveu:> > I looked up Dendrochilum wenzelii in Cootes' book and in Charles > & Margaret Baker's culture sheets. Both say wenzelii grows at about 1000m > however the Bakers say the temperature ranges from 89-90F during the day to > 68-69F at night. That doesn't seem right. Over 3300ft and so hot at night? > That would make wenzelii a warm grower, right? I've been growing it > intermediate with no blooms for years. I rotted the roots and have repotted > it, hence my search for cultural advice. My glumaceum, javieri and arachnites > have all been moved to the cooler section of the GH, too. These 3 seem to be > from high mountainous areas in the Philippines. Having no experience with > high tropical mountain areas is there some habitat in N America that would be > similar? Yosemite with high humidity? Or is there no translation? Both > authors say these don't like to be repotted, if repotting is to be done make > sure you do it with the new growth and use a long lasting medium, however the > medium was> very sour, roots almost totally gone, leaves dropping left and > right, so *something* had to be done. I put it in osmunda, tight in a plastic > pot. That's the longest lasting medium I own, other than rocks. > > > > How > do you repot your dendrochilums?> > > > K Barrett> > N Calif, USA _________________________________________________________________ Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Café. Stop by today. http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
