KAMasud said:Noel, could you please do some of us a favor. When 
you go on your plant collecting trips please take some photographs along with the plant so that we can also get insight on to what exactly these plants like. General area, plants growing around it, shady or sunny, loamy or clay you know, some thing for a plant enthusiast. 
Getting quite fascinated with what ever you are doing.
Regards,
Masud.
In the coming year I will do that as I have to purchase a camera. If you are not aware, all of these photos have been taken with a webcam in my house. I am planning on making many more collecting trips after I begin purchasing my permanent home here. I can tell you I have not seen any clay whatsoever since I arrived here. The soil that adult plants eventually send roots into has dust that makes mud approximating clay, but nothing I would identify as clay. Also, nearly all of the plants I collected had roots embedded in live, moist moss of one type or another. My wife tells me she does not like how it looks, so I do not have any to photograph at the moment (this will change soon).
Thank you for the advice about the soil also. I am trying to use a natural cycle to force my plants to bloom yearly is why I was interested in LariAnn's regimen. I had not thought of using that method until reading about her success with it, but I am pretty sure I know why it works. In nature all of these plants grow in leaf & bark litter slightly above the actual soil. 1 of the plants I found growing up a tree had roots 2 feet from the actual soil only rooted in the tree litter. Since this stuff will rot through the rainy season, nitrogen will be rich. As the dry season kicks in the plants begin to draw less nourishment from the tree litter, & more from the air around them. The "dry" season is still pretty moist in the actual forest. The stuff in the air is more mineral based from dust blown in from other locations...I have been reading a lot about plants ,& this region since I arrived here. I hope I am understanding this correctly, so that I can duplicate the process correctly.
