Encyclia tampensis

Another Florida native! We received a small one in a 4" basket planted in moss from someone at Steven's work. It just did not do very well from the start. It got an outbreak of scale which got on our other plants because we had been dunking all of our plants in the same bucket of water to water them. THIS IS A BAD IDEA! They will get cooties! We didn't realize until we had an outbreak. We also lost a couple of pseudobulbs to some kind of rot as well as the scale problem. The poor plant only ended up with a couple of pseudobulbs in a rehab chamber for months. The rehab chamber was a tiny 2" plastic pot with extra slits cut in it for ventilation growing in moss. The plant eventually made a few roots this spring. We also bought a new small Encyclia tampensis a couple days ago at the Redland Orchid Festival that we potted into a 4" clay orchid pot potted in bark alongside the rehab pieces. We are going to water it when it dries out and fertilize with every watering while in active growth. See the post on Cooties for more about dealing with bugs.