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Post by cory on Aug 8, 2014 6:41:04 GMT -5
I was wondering of anyone here grew the Dracula orchids. Thinking of maybe growing some of these eventually.
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Post by paulkoop on Aug 8, 2014 14:59:21 GMT -5
Check out brads greenhouse on you tube. Lots of info on there about them as well as how he grows them and stuff
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Post by cory on Aug 8, 2014 17:40:46 GMT -5
Ok Thanks for letting me know.
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Post by paulkoop on Aug 8, 2014 18:11:03 GMT -5
He has alot of videos and there pretty helpful
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Post by 801229001 on Aug 8, 2014 22:41:19 GMT -5
draculas like high humidity and cold temperatures like highland nepenthes. and they never like to get dry.
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Post by H2O on Aug 8, 2014 23:41:03 GMT -5
A friend of mine, Mario Ferruzzi is one of the foremost experts on growing Dracula and he has corrected people that Dracula are not cold growers. They are closer to the intermediate section of temperatures and would be best described as intermediate-cool. The key to growing them is plenty of cool fresh and humid air. Lots of pure water and when you do water flush the entire basket, don't just add water to keep the media moist. Also remember all but a few species are pendent bloomer and bloom out the bottom of open baskets.
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Post by vraev on Aug 9, 2014 8:02:48 GMT -5
I met Mario at the toronto orchid show. He was a nice person to talk to. I bought a M. mendozae from him. But for me dracula were notoriously hard to keep growing well. I tried to grow 4-5 dracula species..my fav of which is dracula vampira, radiosa, radiatta? The foliage starts become spotted black and the leaves become crinkled....and end up looking diseased. Very strict on "no water" on leaves at night.
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Post by cory on Aug 9, 2014 9:35:51 GMT -5
They seem from what I have read prior to posting to be cooler growers and like to be kept on the wet side. I'm sure they are fussy as most orchids are lol. I'm not deterred by it the harder plants are to keep happy the more I seem to enjoy growing them. I like the challenge I guess. I tend to get very bored with easy growers
When I get something mastered I move on to something else until I figure that out and so on so being hard fussy and a general pain is a plus to me ironically
Thanks for all the input I appreciate it. I got a lot on my plate here to Finnish before these become a new area of growing but it's definitely something I will venture into eventually
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Post by H2O on Aug 9, 2014 10:47:51 GMT -5
I met Mario at the toronto orchid show. He was a nice person to talk to. I bought a M. mendozae from him. But for me dracula were notoriously hard to keep growing well. I tried to grow 4-5 dracula species..my fav of which is dracula vampira, radiosa, radiatta? The foliage starts become spotted black and the leaves become crinkled....and end up looking diseased. Very strict on "no water" on leaves at night. Were you trying it in your tank? My guess what be that there wasn't enough fresh air/air movement. They really are more suited to greenhouse culture. Plus they take up so much space!
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Post by vraev on Aug 9, 2014 15:44:43 GMT -5
yup. I had it in my big 2' x 2' x 3' tall tanks. I guess yup..no matter how much air movement was there, it wasn't enough for them + my humidity never went above 70%...the neps were adapted to it... low humidity, high light (8x T5HO) and that led to a lot of leaf burn on the dracula.
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Post by jjspm on May 27, 2016 19:52:13 GMT -5
H20, so are you saying that I can grow dracula if I give them plenty of r/o water and air movement?!
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Post by deanm on May 27, 2016 20:40:53 GMT -5
Mario is a master at growing Dracs. I meet Mario many years ago when I was an Orchid Judge. He is a great guy and very knowledgeable.
(I not longer judge orchids - life and kids caught up with me. I did meet a lot of great people through judging).
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