Monday, July 22, 2013

Leptotes bicolor

So we are kind of into miniatures. It's sort of like baby shoes being the cutest thing on earth because they are so tiny even if you aren't that into babies. Leptotes is a miniature that we got at the Venice Orchid Show in February 2013. It wasn't in flower then, and hasn't flowered since. It was and still is planted in a 1" clay pot in sphagnum because it's so small it still dries out quickly. The plant has put on a lot of new growths, although you can hardly tell because the whole thing is so small! I often water it by spraying it because it's so tiny it's hard for water to soak in quickly. If it dries out too much I sometimes have to soak it to get it to absorb water again. I think we will have to repot it soon, because it is starting to grow over the edge on one side of it's pot. The guy who sold it to us said to grow it just like a cattleya, so that's what we have been doing. It gets good light and dries out between waterings.

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