Macodes Petola Precious Orchid
Rare precious orchid. The homeland of Malaysia and New Guinea, grows in the lower rainforests in the shade of trees. At home it grows in conditions of high humidity on a litter of fallen leaves. The orchid is vlago and heat-loving, optimally 22-29 C. When dried, it drops leaves and loses decorativeness.
It has a light lime leaf background with bright gold streaks that shimmer in the sun. In height reaches 7-8 cm (miniature). It blooms in nondescript small flowers, after which the rosette dies, giving lateral processes (children). The roots are hairy.
Easy to grow. It develops slowly, but if you put it in a small aquarium or greenhouse, then development will accelerate.
The substrate should be breathable but retain moisture. Usually planted in pure moss sphagnum, but you can make a mix of fine pine bark, moss sphagnum, spruce needles, leaf earth, mix everything in equal proportions, and the substrate is ready for use.
A pot in diameter should not exceed 6 cm, otherwise the orchids will not be cozy, Petola loves cramped. The pot must be plastic, it does not retain salts.
Watering should be regular, soft water, as the substrate dries. The substrate should not be wet, but should not be dry.
You need to feed Macodes Petola very carefully so as not to burn tender roots, 3-4 drops of fertilizer per 2 liters is quite enough. It should be fed from spring to autumn once every 3 weeks, and from autumn to spring once every 5 weeks.
The plant is shade tolerant, so it can be placed deep into the room so that only scattered light enters it.
Propagated by children formed from internodes, after flowering or drying.
Macodes sanderiana precious orchid
It is the largest and most spectacular precious orchid. Very rare, native to New Guinea. It grows in tropical rainforests.
Plant with oval, almost round leaves. The background of the leaves in young plants is light green with pink-gold veins, with age the background darkens. In this orchid, the leaves grow up to 15 cm in length and 7.5 cm in width.
This orchid is terrestrial, heat-loving, shade-tolerant. The substrate for landing must be breathable and moisture-retaining. I grow in moss-sphagnum, but you can plant it in a substrate of bark, spruce needles, moss-sphagnum, coal, mix and plant everything in equal proportions.
The pot should be plastic, 7-8 cm.
Water, moderately, so that the substrate is wet, but not wet.
It is recommended to grow in high humidity in terrariums or greenhouses, although I calmly grew on the windowsill.
If the temperature of the content is high, then it is necessary to water abundantly, if the temperature of the content is low, then watering should be reduced, but this will be fraught with the fact that the plant can throw off all the leaves.
Goodyera hispida precious orchid Goodyera hispida
Small precious orchid. It grows in India, Bhutan and Vietnam in the lower reaches of evergreen forests. The plant is warm.
The background of the leaves is green, pierced by cold platinum veins burning in the light. The plant has leaves 7 cm long and 3 cm wide, if the plant blooms, then the peduncle grows to a height of 10 cm and blooms with green and white flowers.
The orchid is terrestrial and can grow, both in moss-sphagnum and on stones, that is, it can be lithophyte (I grow in moss-sphagnum).
After flowering, light drying is recommended so that new growths form from the rhizome (the base of the bulb-stem). True, after drying, the orchid can throw off most of the foliage, which will somewhat spoil the appearance of the plant. After the appearance of a new growth, watering resumes in the same mode.
Since the plant is shade tolerant, it is better to place the orchid not in direct sun, but deep into the apartment, where there is scattered light.
The substrate for planting is identical to Macodes Petola.
Propagate identically.
Watering is regular, before flowering, so that the substrate is wet, but not wet, after flowering, light drying, before the appearance of new growths, then watering is resumed.
Fertilized as Macodes Petola.
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