Friday, June 21, 2013

Ionopsis utricularioides

We got a little Ionopsis at the Redland Orchid Festival in May 2012 that was just out of the flask. We thought it was cool because it was a FL native. We tied tucked it into a teeny tiny pot with a few chips of bark in it, and hung it up with our vandas. It bloomed as soon as we got it. It was really beautiful and surprising because we didn't know it would flower so small. We had to spray it every day with the other vandas. It never really seemed to make much in the way of roots at all. It lived for almost a year at our house. It started making new growths, but they never really seemed to mature. It started making some new roots finally, but I forgot to water it for a couple of days and I think that just put it over the edge and it died. We had tried looking it up a few times to see what it wants, but were never really able to figure it out. Maybe we will try again some day.

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