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Feb 18, 2011 7:38 AM CST
Name: Susan B
East Tennessee (Zone 6b)
Charter ATP Member
The Professor!! Rolling on the floor laughing

My Dichaea was just a houseplant that had southern exposure on occasion. Later I moved and it was in an east window and I don't remember it flowering that much. Sorry, I'm not an expert on it, I only liked it because it stayed alive through my care for so long. Unfortunately it didn't survive the move to TN. I did buy a small one from ebay last year, but I had my doubts it was glauca, because it was totally green. Either way it got burned up in the fire. Crying

I bought my original plant growing in bark/perlite/charcoal mixture, in a plastic pot. It was pretty rootbound but maybe that was one of the flowering keys? I've read a few things on orchid boards about it, and (if I remember correctly) they all say not to grow it that way. It also received very little fertilizer under my (uneducated) care- mostly just water, and not very often.

OOh, love that neglecta with the purple striped flowers! I don't grow it, or anything other than that Noid you ID'd for me. But we got some $1-$2 throwaways at Lowes last fall so DH and I have a budding interest. I guess we always thought all orchids were very expensive and extremely hard to grow.

Oops, correction- it did flower in the eastern window- just found a photo of it.
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