Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Some of the Babies got Cooked :(

We forgot to turn the fan on in the greenhouse one day and it got way too hot in there. A couple of the orchids that were on the top shelf got cooked.

Rhyncholaelia digbyana had a few leaves burn and turn black. We have since cut off the bad parts.

The seedling Dendrobium spectabile's newest growth cooked right where the leaves attach to the pseudobulb. I had to cut those leaves off so now it's just a pseudobulb stump. The older set of leaves is still okay though.

The psychopsis I think got the worst of it. The tips of most of it's leaves cooked. It also got a few spots on it, from water sitting I guess?






We have now put the fan on a timer so it comes on automatically. It still gets hotter than we want in the greenhouse. It gets about 103 degrees Fahrenheit as the max. We are going to switch out the cardboard floor for gravel/rocks because the ground underneath will I think wick the coolness up and lower the temperature. At least I hope that will work. We are also trying to figure out some kind of mister to put in front of the fan to lower the temperature. 

We are having to water more often because it gets so warm in there. That's okay though.

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