Caught the orchid bug

[coastal20]

Just got two new orchids today and I was very happy that they made it alive. They are Lepanthes Calodictyon and Lepanthes Telipogoniflora.
Here is a picture of how they arrived.

I am in the process of remounting them onto ecoweb covered with hygrolon.

[deranged chipmunk]

Sweet! Who is the supplier? And what's their native zone?

[coastal20]

Sweet! Who is the supplier? And what's their native zone?

The supplier was ecuagenera.
The telipogoniflora is native to Columbia and the calodictyon is native to western Columbia.
I have to say remounting them was a pain, took me about 1.5 hours.

[deranged chipmunk]

Very cool. I bet most of the time was spent removing them from their mounts? Lol they really grow themselves on there.
Are they a seasonal bloomer? I'm not very familiar with that family of orchidae

[coastal20]

I have another lepanthes calodictyon that always has one leaf with a flower so I would say that they bloom all year long. Yup I spent all my time trying to get the roots of the mounts with out damaging them.
The telipogoniflora actually arrived in flower, but was wilted bc it was bone dry when I got it.

[deranged chipmunk]

Very cool that they are a year round bloomer. I hate buying mounted orchids for that reason, but sometimes it's the only way to get some species. It may have wilted because it was bone chilling cold when you got them. I know it has been here, and since you're north of me, i can safely assume you had the same weather?

[coastal20]

Very cool that they are a year round bloomer. I hate buying mounted orchids for that reason, but sometimes it's the only way to get some species. It may have wilted because it was bone chilling cold when you got them. I know it has been here, and since you're north of me, i can safely assume you had the same weather?

Come to think of it the weather was really cold, I am surprised they made it in such good condition. They were not even wilted except the one flower.

[deranged chipmunk]

the weather was the reason i told the supplier i went through to ship me ones that were pre-spike. he sent one that was in spike, and now she's starting to grow new buds. it should bloom in a few weeks