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Re: Dischidia and other exotic plants; two mail order sources.

At 10:07 PM 6/16/97 -0700, Keith Dabney wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Judy Showers wrote:
>
>> To Keith & all others interested in this subject:
>
>> Now they are growing all over, blooming and just being neat.
>
>	What do the flowers look like?  
>
>  I saw my first
>> Dischidia at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens growing up the posts that
>> hold the greenhouse up.  It was probably D. imbricata.  I grow my
>> Dischidias on hanging pieces of bark, just like I do my small orchids,
>> and they get watered once a week.  
>
>	I have 3 or 4 mounted orchids, but I grow indoors, under lights
>and in windowsills.  I have Leptodes unicolor thriving simply mounted on a
>stick (from, appropriately Andy's Orchids, aka Andy's Orchid on a Stick). 
>I find that I have to water that nearly every day, even though it is
>hanging over a humidity tray, and has a lot of other plants nearby to help
>generate humidity.  Same sp. mounted on cork bark with a little pad of
>moss only requires soaking every 2-3 days.
>
>	Anyway, I don't want to get a lot of mounted plants going if I can
>avoid it.  It is a great way to grow, but is better for greenhouse
>growers.  Have you grown any of your dischidias in pots?  I assume that
>hoya would probably grow mounted, and it certainly grows in pots.  I'm
>hoping that dischidias are the same.  
>
>> I would be interested to find out the nurseries that sell Dischidias,
>> other than Ted Green in Hawaii.  
>
>	I ordered mine from Lauray of Salisbury, a nursery in CT.  The
>plants have not arrived yet, but I have ordered from them before, and was
>happy with my order.  They sell gesneriads, begonias, orchids (only about
>20), cacti, and succulents.
>
>Lauray of Salisbury		catalog: $2
>432 Undermountain Rd
>Salisbury, CT  06068
>
>	The begonia selection is extensive, with lots in each category,
>and a brief description of each one.  Also a good selection of gesneriads,
>of all the other categories, too, it looks like to me.  One of those
>catalogs which is good to keep as a reference it is so well done.  No
>photos, nothing snazzy, but good information.  
>
>I paid $ 30.00 for that Dischidia years
>> ago and I guess it was really worth paying more for a plant that was
>> acclimated to our hemisphere because it didn't take long for the plant
>> to start growing. 	
>
>	Lauray charges either $3 or $4, they are starter plants.  They
>offer D. rafflesiana, D. bengalensis, and four un-named species. 
>
>	The only other catalog which I have that includes dischidias is
>that of Rainbow Gardens ("Flowering Jungle Cacti and Other Succulent
>Plants").  They seem to be THE place to order orchid cacti (epiphyllums
>and their relatives), Xmas cacti, Thanksgiving cacti, and all related
>plants.  Their catalog is neat, filled with color photos and excellent
>cultural info.  A few photos of the hoyas they offer, but no photos of
>dischidias, of which they offer six spp., for the same general price as
>Lauray.  
>
>	If you are at _all_ interested in epiphyllums and related plants,
>this catalog is a must, really informative.  Also costs $2.00, or at least
>it did last year (I have the 95-96 one).  I have not ordered from them,
>but their catalog exudes professionalism and good service.    They also
>send a copy of their book catalog, which has books on all of the types of
>plants which they sell, and then some.  Remember when I listed the name
>and address of Joe's Nursery, as a place which offers lots of sanveverias,
>cycads, succulents, and myriad more succulents? Also in Vista, as is one
>of the most famous gesneriad/begonia/other exotic plant nurseries, Kartuz.
>Must be quite a town to visit.  Most of us would need a couple of hundred
>dollars and at least an empty car to bring the plants back.   
>
>Rainbow Gardens
>1444 E. Taylow Street
>Vista  CA  92084
>
>  That's my 2 cents on Dischidias.  Judy Showers
>> (Greenhouse grower in Pennsylvania, zone 6)
>
>Thanks, it was good to hear from someone who grows them.  You seem to be
>the only person in the Indoor Gardening listserv group who does, so far
>anyhow.
>
>Cordially,
>
>Keith Dabney
>San Francisco  
>
>I do. i am crazy over epiphytes. most hoyas wind up growing epipytically if
they can. i have some in 2 inch pots wchich are uncountable yards in legnth
growing into the greenhouse rafters with an amazing epiphytic root system;
the roots in the two inch pot having perished years ago. Dischidias are
excellent under same conditions as for  say, staghorns. Very high humidity
and circulating air, the higher the humidity the brighter the light they
take and the more growth and flowers. Ant plants!

hermine
http://www.endangeredspecies.com
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