Its not a huge concern of mine, but I was suprised to see 40% dead, and 60% perfectly healthly. Possible just loss from greenhouse to home?
Dischidia lost about 40% of leaves and vines
Which Discidia is it?
I will have to go look it up, but its just the HD PA ones.
Dischidia ruscifolia. I am wondering if I should repot it. It looked so much healther at the store.
I used to let mine dry out a lot in between waterings....it didnt like it, now I water it more and its improving
Humm, the soil was moist, but not wet, I thought that was not bad. I am still strongly considering repotting just to see what it looks like, over fertilized, small root ball, etc.
I repotted, or should I I say resoiled it today, I found the original potting soil soggy, and 99% peat with 1% perlite. I repotted it by getting down to what appeared to be several root balls, and discarded the mess, I added my dry mix for epiphytes, which is a potting soil with liberal amounts of pumice and orchid bark. We shall see what happens. I expect the dryer soil will wick away some of the wetter, and the roots should become happier.
If it was an EA plant it was probably soggy from wetting crystals...good move repotting it!!!
It just kept dying, I stuck it in the compost pile.l think the roots had minimized. I need less high maintenence plants and more straight forward ones.
I have a D. ruscifolia that I purchased from Home Depot two years ago and it has done wonderfully well under my neglectful care. After I bought it, I immediately repotted it into my own mix that I use for almost every plant I grow, a combination of a little potting soil and lots of orchid bark mix. The plant stays out in the screened area of my pool deck in full sun most of the year. I only fertilized it once last summer and it was covered in those teeny white blooms last September. In winter I move it to the unheated Florida room. This past winter was the worst in Florida history for cold temp's ... many nights here in the mid 20's and this plant was one of the ones that survived with no apparent cold damage.
We have extremely high humidity here most of the year, so I don't water this one very often. I don't consider this one high maintenance at all ... I'm not the best plant caretaker and plants that live with me have to survive on a lot of neglect. I've enjoyed this one so much that I'm considering buying another type of Dischidia to try.
You have just the right conditions your dischidia was what I was expecting, but no, all I had was a pot of dying vines. Sigh. Some of the problem with these forums is that we live is such diverse areas of the world, and plants are pretty regional in their tolerances. Like it is still to cold to get plants outside unprotected, where south of me people don't have to bring them in. Sigh. When can I move south? My DW does not like the heat..
I'm with your wife! I've been in Florida for 43 years and the heat and humidity never bothered me when I was young but now that I'm old I can't take it for very long. Yard work that used to take me an hour to finish, nowadays takes me 5 or 6 hours. The humidity is very oppressive!
I can understand, but I still like the plants.
LIN...since when are you OLD? We are now built for comfort, not for speed and we are 'mature'....
ROFL, Carol ... some days I feel 32 instead of 62 ... other days I feel at least 92!
Yep, I think I'm built for comfort nowadays. I feel more comfortable in my own skin now than I did at 32. I don't think I was ever built for speed ... I'm a southern gal, born and raised in the south, and we tend to live a slower pace down here.
Hey, I like that "Mature" instead of old, think I will use that from now on whether I feel thirty years younger or thirty years older! ^_^
Like a Fine Wine, Lin..:))
Antone has a great selection of Dischidias Lin. The ones that are really nice are the ones that develop pouched leaves, like D major and D vidalii. If you get the variagated D vidalii it is really pretty with bright red little flowers. Mine struggles a bit here, but you might like to try it. Others are the shell leaved ones that cling to trees. D astephana also is really lovely. That one grows very well here
Dom
There are some absolutely delightful dischidia!!! I love them!!!!
I get into trouble with my nearly 70 year old body thinks my 35 year old brain is running the show!!!
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LOL Dom, I know nothing about wine, fine or otherwise. When I want to make a batch of the beer fertilizer I get a beer from a friend. He knows that my husband and I don't drink and he thought I was kidding when I told him I really needed and wanted a beer ... and when I told him it was to make up a batch of fertilizer he looked at me like I had lost my mind! ^_^
Carol ... My problem is my brain sometimes is older than my body. ^_^
Going to search for Antone's website to check out some Dischidia!
www.dischidia.com
This is my Dischidia astephana
Dom: Yes, I googled and found Antone's site last night ... spent a loooong time drooling over those gorgeous photo's! I'm trying to be good and cut back on so many plants but it sure is hard when I look at photo's of such beautiful ones !
And speaking of beautiful ... your D. astephana is an amazing looking plant! Wow!
Lin, you remind me of a funny thing a few years back. I'm also a non-drinker (of any sort of alochol). But I was being troubled by this exceptionally clever feral pig. One of the solutions I sought was to get it drunk. So I ended up in a bottle shop (liquor store) asking advice on the strongest cheap alcohol I could get for a pig. You should have seen the looks I got. Anyway, I got some vodka and soaked bread in it. Turned out a stray dog got to the bread before the pig and then wouldn't leave. And the dog never chased the pig off, probably too drunk!
:))
LOL Tropic! I can just picture the looks you must have gotten when asking for the strongest, cheapest alcohol ... for a PIG!! That is so funny! The bottle shop employees may still be telling that story, LOL! Poor stray doggie ... but it sounds like he enjoyed his meal of vodka bread!! ^_^ Maybe that dog was thinking he wouldn't chase off the pig ... hoping maybe you'd put out more vodka bread!
I think they all got the better of me, the pig, the dog, and the bottle shop employees.
You guys are really funny on this site...I love your kindnessand playfulness...i feel like I can ask the really stupid questions and not be told I am posting in the wrong thread...Thank you....