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Bulbophyllum pulchellum

Karma — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:39:32 +0000

Such a beautiful and exotic looking orchid…. this is one I am kind of holding on to even though I don’t really have the space. I have bloomed it sucessfully on the windowsill, but I get one, perhaps two flowers. In the warm/intermediate vivarium I get about 5 flowers per bulb, and all the [...]

Neofinetia falcata ‘Shutenno’

Karma — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:29:30 +0000

I am quite facinated by the Neofinetia falcata species, with all its forms and variations. ‘Shutenno’ has got to be among the most beautiful of them all. The elegant Neofinetia dragon shape is successfully complimented by a beautiful purple spur and an absolutley amazing scent of jasmine and sweet vanilla! So this would be [...]

Phalaenopsis violacea var. coerulea

Karma — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:21:52 +0000

For part two of the fragrance series this summer (part one), I am pleased to present this lovely Phalaenopsis violacea var. coerulea. A warm growing species from Malaysia and Sumatra where it grows at an altitude of about 150 meters. The fragrance of my close is not super strong, but it is definitely noticeable, especially when [...]

Spring cleaning and another rain system upgrade

Karma — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:01:27 +0000

Yes you heard me right, yet another rain system upgrade… I have actually been wanting to simplify the watering setup I have for quite some time now. I basically wanted to take out the drip system and expand the rain system instead. Yes, admittedly I am a perfectionist and a little bit of a [...]

Cool vivarium – some fine tuning and upgrades

Karma — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:38:55 +0000

For the past few weeks I have been working on a few long awaited upgrades for the cool vivarium. Well, long awaited for me, I am not a very patient person… Now they are finally all done and I am very pleased with the results. So here is an updated photo of the viv [...]

Masdevallia impostor

Karma — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:34:05 +0000

I got this orchid from Ecuagenera at the show in Gothenburg about a month ago. It is such an impressive species and I have been wanting one for a long time. It came with two old inflorecenses and they came to life again producing new buds as soon as I got it home. The inflorecense [...]

The great root containment project

Karma — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:29:45 +0000

I have been working on solving a problem, a rather nice problem I suppose… but a problem never the less. All the mounted orchids in the cool vivarium are doing really well and are growing like crazy. They are also putting out roots like crazy. A lot of them have grown straight through the EpiWeb [...]

Masdevallia rolfeana

Karma — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:47:54 +0000

A very nice Masdevallia endemic to Costa Rica where is grows in the cloud forests from 1400 to 2200 meters. It is fairly tolerant of warmer temperatures and I actually bloomed this on the windowsill in my intermediate growing room before moving it into the cool vivarium in April. The flowers measure about 7 [...]

Cool vivarium drain cleaning

Karma — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:21:24 +0000

Oh, this is really exciting stuff to write about right? Well, he he, these are the day to day maintenance stuff that goes on behind the scenes of running this big vivarium. I noticed the past week that what I first thought was a flair up of the fungus gnats that usually come with [...]

Cool vivarium – a photo update

Karma — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:31:06 +0000

Ok… I think it is time for a photo update of the cool vivarium. It is really starting to fill in now and I am quite pleased with how the viv is performing!! If you are curious to see exactly what orchids I am growing in there so far, you can look at this photo [...]