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Originally Posted by kmarch  Dear taradale,
I have grown Paphs and Phrags for some time now (nearly 10 years) and I have completely stopped fertilizing them. The mix I use for both of them contains a fair bit of organic material, leaf material, peat, sphagnum, bark, so organic nutrients are available to the plants through the mix. I once used a bloom-booster at half strength but then stopped and noticed no appreciable difference. So, now i rarely if ever fertilize my slipper orchids and when I do I use only a balanced or bloom boost at about half strength.
Hope this is helpful.
-Kevin |
i just bought my first paphs two in fact a Paph. Vanguard 'Dark' x Paph. sanderianum and a Paph Black Brier X Grand Master 'Candor Autumnal' AM any info you can give me on these. i have both of these in sh and i am using msu fertilizer for ro water at 125 ppm. i understand if i have read correctly that the first one takes awhile to bloom mine, it has a 25 inch leaf span on it.the second one has two buds on it and both are doing quite nicely