Recent content by cosmic charlie

I so want some of these!

Thank you. They really aren't that hard. you just have to do your research and give them what they need. I have never bloomed Dracula and Tolumnia. I found out that even cool growing Dracs will still bloom with 65 degree nights. The biggest thing to get them to bloom is keeping the humidity high...

Just picked up to 2 Dracula species, 1 Restrepia, 1 Cirrhopetalum tingabarinum All Intermediate growers with exotic flowers :)

https://www.facebook.com/mel.cioffi/media_set?set=a.1065730811945.12684.1486263678&type=3. This is a link to some of the orchids I have bloomed. :)

sadly no, my pair was older I did get 3 eggs but only one of the babies survived. She was very small. she was a little over a year old when I found her at the bottom of the cage :(

I would love acuminatus again and the viridis. hopefully people will have babies :)

That's a big misconception about getting them to bloom. True, some are more difficult than others. The big thing is a difference in temperature. That is what gets orchids to bloom. I had around 300 orchids that I grew indoors in my house. I grew the whole spectrum from warm growers to cool...

I still have a male left from my WC girl that passed. I sold 2 girls to Chuck G awhile ago and 2 females to chris Anderson. hopefully all the ladies are doing well. I love this species. They were fun to work with.

yes jann i do. she is very good. the only thing that seemed wrong with him was his phosporus was slightly elevated. we used binder and i made sure to gut load with high calcium foods. near the end no matter how much he ate. he never gained weight.

Charlie was 4 years old. He was my first panther. He had been fighting some type of illness since 18 months. Near the last few months he would not eat or drink . We never found out what was wrong with him. Sadly I feel like I failed him. He was too young. I have 2 others that are 2 1/2 and 2...

make sure it gets a temperature drop. thats will induce spiking

yeah florida is not the place for cool growers. If you have a basement that usually is good enough for the intermediates. I never got my draculas to bloom. I was going to set up fans to bring in cool air so I could get the air around the draculas down to 40. but sold the house instead...

spinosums for me. Plus a house again so i can do orchids again too.

Charlie is there every show. He usually has panthers and jacksons but sometimes with have carpets and pygmy species. I saw the campani the last time he had a pair. They were in good shape. I may be tempted if he has them at the show in January.

My second hobby as well. i had to scale down my collection to just a few since i am in an apartment at the moment. I had around 300 at one time. I have grown a few of the catergories. cool growers in my basement under lights. intermediates and warm growers in most rooms of the house :)