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Орхидея Epidendrum centropetalum

Acquired an orchid Oerstedella centerdenia. Tell, how to care for her, how to propagate. Better to plant in the bark? Thank you in advance.

Tatiana GUBANOVA (e-mail question)

Oerstedella centerdenia (Photo) planting and care

Oerstedella centradenia originally from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama. Grows in the lower tier of mountain evergreen forests at a height 1200-1500 m, more often as an epiphyte. The genus was singled out as an independent 1981 r. from the genus of epidendrum, but after carrying out phylogenetic studies in the modern classification "returned" back, so the correct name for your orchid is Epidendrum centropetalum.

LANDING AND SUBSTRATE

Oerstedella can be grown on cork bark blocks, ensuring regular, almost daily, watering in summer. When planting in a pot, the substrate needs a loose, quickly passing excess water. A mixture of medium-sized pine bark with the addition of moss is suitable. A good time to transplant is the period after flowering ends..

ORCHID FRAGMIPEDIUM – CARE AND FEATURES OF GROWING

Fragmipedium photo

The shoe fit right

When I saw the bloom of this orchid - a relative of papiopedilum (venus shoe), then fell in love with her forever. Now I can't imagine my collection without these luxurious, relatively unpretentious and willingly flowering plants.

FRAGMIPEDIUM – LANDING

Young specimens are recommended to be replanted annually at the end of winter-spring, mature - every two years, better after flowering. Fragmipedia, usually, transplant well. The plant is shaken out of the pot, examine the roots, remove rotten and damaged ones and plant in a new container with fresh substrate, after laying drainage on the bottom.

The mixture for planting phragmipediums is based on the bark of the medium and fine fraction, charcoal, perlite, pieces of lava. Also, the composition may include fragments of the roots of tree ferns. Plants are planted in a pre-moistened substrate. It is important to tamp it well, the pot by weight must be heavy. The soil is kept moist all the time, a little water is left in the pallet at the bottom.

During transplantation, orchids can be propagated by dividing the rosette, but experience shows, that undivided plants are stronger and more resistant to disease, bloom long and profusely. So it is undesirable to bother them with such a procedure without unnecessary need..

Fragmipedium – cultivation