03-13-2014, 09:56 PM
Our local Home Depot has quite a few very nice looking orchids. I was thinking of bare rooting one or two, giving them a cleaning, and using them in my 120 G viv. I have multiple mount points in the viv on my cork bark background, and I can place them in the drier areas. They are definitely too big for my smaller vivs, but I think they will work in the big one.
I've read that most HD orchids are likely Phalaenopsis. There's some question as to whether or not they would bloom again in the viv. I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on these orchids and if I should waste my time with them or not I will admit I have a brown thumb - I operate on (1) buy plants that look cool, (2) see what lives, (3) propagate. I'm not keen on shipping high dollar orchids in that will most likely end up a dead brown heaping mass in my viv. I figured these may be a good test for me. Am I just wasting my time? Has anyone gotten them to bloom again?
I've read that most HD orchids are likely Phalaenopsis. There's some question as to whether or not they would bloom again in the viv. I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on these orchids and if I should waste my time with them or not I will admit I have a brown thumb - I operate on (1) buy plants that look cool, (2) see what lives, (3) propagate. I'm not keen on shipping high dollar orchids in that will most likely end up a dead brown heaping mass in my viv. I figured these may be a good test for me. Am I just wasting my time? Has anyone gotten them to bloom again?
Jim from Austin | https://www.oneillscrossing.com/dart-frogs/
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fantastica nominant | summersi | reticulata | A barbotini