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Old 02-27-2008, 02:11 PM
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Congratulations, Patticake! that's really encouraging that you got the seeds to the point of putting up a tiny leaf. By the way, Bletilla are terrestrial orchids, so your method of growing them in a soil mix probably approximates the conditions that they would get in nature. For epiphytic orchids, you could do "wick-watering" on a mount by placing the whole mount back side down in a pan of water. The water would then be wicked up by the mount, to a greater or lesser degree depending on the material.
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