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Growth containers

Discussion in 'Growing Areas' started by Morgan Ruben, Nov 23, 2013.

  1. Nov 23, 2013 #1
    Morgan Ruben

    Morgan Ruben New Member

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    Hello!

    I am currently growing several orchid species on hygrolon for a nano vivarium. These pictures below show the growth containers. They are kept in these containers in the conservatory, as they dont have additional lights yet. The eventual vessels that will keep the orchids will be slightly different. They will be hand blown by a glass blower.
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    Hapalochilus Dolychoalottis, tropical moss, Angraecum spec.?? (The somewhat yellowish color on some leaves was already there when I got these.)
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    Restrepia Antennifera, tropical moss
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    They have been like this for 4 weeks now and seem to be doing well! Lots of new leaves forming!
     
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  2. Nov 23, 2013 #2
    KellyW

    KellyW Orchid wonk Staff Member Supporting Member

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    Morgan, those are great. Do the tubes have bottoms or are they truly tubes? Is this your graduation project you mentioned in an earlier post?
     
  3. Nov 23, 2013 #3
    Marni

    Marni Well-Known Member Staff Member Supporting Member

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    Thanks for the interesting post! That might be Angraecum distichum.
     
  4. Nov 24, 2013 #4
    Morgan Ruben

    Morgan Ruben New Member

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    Kelly, thank you, this is indeed the very first set up of my project! The tubes are solid with hygrolon going all the way to the bottom, same as at the top. In this way they easily wick water all the way to the top.

    Marni, thank you about the name.

    In the upcoming weeks I will make many more of these. I will probably move them to a slightly warmer surrounding and use a growth lamp for lighting. I am also looking a lot into led lights and approached a research institute about flexible organic leds. Unfortunately oleds have only a light temp of 3000k, emit very few lumen, no IR and no UV. But maybe in the future they will. At the moment they are still in the research fase.