Not orchids?

I bought a Platycerium bifurcatum division from a street vendor in 1976, and planted it in a coconut husk-lined basket of sphagnum moss. As the plant penetrated the moss and emerged through the coco mat, new fronds would emerge and the thing became a spherical specimen.

I never repotted it, but did add a chain mesh way of hanging it, as - at the time it was lost to my greenhouse heater failure in 1994 - it was 12 feet in diameter, supported by a 2x4 tripod.

 

How cold did your greenhouse drop? Mine has tolerated frosts, maybe a freeze.

 

It was a 7F night. I saw the temperature after the sun had risen, and started to warm, and it was 15.

Everything was frozen solid, and when the temps came up, they all collapsed into mush.

 

Haha, when people from California say things about cold.

 

No, that was a total loss.

I bought a new heater and alarm system, and reopened the greenhouse as a business later that year, and I've never replaced the staghorn.

Now that I'm downsizing in preparation for relocating south, I've sold off all plants - except a few keepers - and the greenhouse is gone. Now to get the foundation excavated...

It's tough not having a greenhouse after 35 years or so of having one, although it'll be nice not to pay to heat it!