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Welcome to the jungle!

Some rhipsalis blooming last week
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somewhere in there is Selenicereus anthonyanus, almost completely obscured by Fokea edulis and cissus tuberosa.
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Rhipsalis pachyptera
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Rhipsalis pachyptera
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Rhipsalis crispata
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Rhipsalis crispata
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Lepismium houlletianum
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Lepismium houlletianum
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8) WOW fantstic JUNGLE ya got going there Tony... :thumbup:
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Your pictures leave me "speechless". Lucky me I'm typing!
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my lepismium is not doing as well

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That looks great! My Lepismium houlletianum doesn't get enough water, at least it looks dried even though I water it often. I have it in regular succulent culture... maybe I should attempt more epiphyte tropical culture as you've done here.
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Re: my lepismium is not doing as well

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amanzed wrote:That looks great! My Lepismium houlletianum doesn't get enough water, at least it looks dried even though I water it often. I have it in regular succulent culture... maybe I should attempt more epiphyte tropical culture as you've done here.
Yes, mine always seems to look thin as well, unlike many of the other thicker stemed epiphytes do.
I have it in standard cacti mix and I have lined the coconut fiber planter with a plastic bag with a few 1" holes at the bottom to retain moisture. I tried growing these types of plants with the fiber liner only, but the soil just dries out to fast. The plants dont die, but they dont grow nearly as well for me.

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tony, great and healthy looking plants!

amanzed, it may help to add 1/3 orchid bark to your mix, although I don't have any lepismium I plant all my epi's in such a mix, works great!
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Snapped a few pics this holiday weekend.
First timer mammillaria solisoides.
How nice of them to bloom at exactly the same time.
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Ariocarpus agavoides, grafted of coarse. The plants on their own roots are still 3/5 years off yet before they bloom I think.
Single headed plant.
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And a four headed plant.
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Ariocarpus retusus single headed plant.
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Here's an 8 headed plant thats not blooming but is nice anywho.
It got attacked by spidermite a year ago and it is finally growing out enough to hide the scars.
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Mammillaria 'un pico'
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Mammillaria plumosa just got a larger pot, it was hanging over the sides of an 8 incher.
It has out grown two since I have had it.
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Mammillaria voburnensis on the other hand, grows really slowly for me, its in a six inch pot and I have had it a year longer longer then the M. plumosa.
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Pachypodium saundersii is starting to drop leaves and produce flowers
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I always have to have a few weeds thrown in. :)

Huernia kennedyana
This plant is stacking up nicely.
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Othona retrofracta
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Intergenetic hybrid orchid (BLC if I remember correctly)that somehow survives almost completly on its own, so it gets to stay and hang around.
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Very cool. Do you have a picture of the Othona retrofracta without plants in the background? I am not familiar with that plant, and is hard to tell what belongs and what doesn't.
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I hope to have an Ariocarpus collection like that one day :P
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Awesome plants, Tony!
Don't be surprised if your (own roots) A. agavoides bloom earlier than you think ;)
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Lovely plants Tony!
Wish I had the knack you seem to have as I'm starting to see some unexplainable losses here, plants just shrivel up and die with no warning. :|
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very beautiful plants and flowers tony!
wish I could grow an orchid like that, it looks stunning|!
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For Harriet.
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I have had this about three years? Sure wish I could find another as it wont set seed on its own and I would like to try to grow it from my own seed.
Also going to try and get a few of those long stems hanging down to root in separate pots..

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Thank you!

That is a lovely, very graceful, plant.
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CoronaCactus wrote:Awesome plants, Tony!
Don't be surprised if your (own roots) A. agavoides bloom earlier than you think ;)
I dont know bro, maybe if they were growing in that magic hoop house of yours. :wink:
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Not much growth this year at all, but Im still pleased that I havent killed them yet.
Could be there is nothing but big, fat turnip roots left in the pot, but im not holding my breath.
I moved all of my ariocarpus seedlings out of the green house and into the shadehouse a month ago to allow them to get a much longer photoperiod and more intense light as well.
After seeing the plants you have at the nursery from the same seed lot that have grown twice as fast, something told me I needed to try something different. :shock:
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