I have been trying to grow Disa uniflora . I could make them flower in the first year, but it didn't make a new growth for the next year. In an attempt to improve the environment for them, I made a small ebb-flow hydroponic system for my second year of Disa growing. Most parts are from Lowes/Home Depot. This system makes it easy to give sufficient water to Disa . The EC of the water seems to go up after a while, so I do have to change the water in the reserver occasionally, though. Currently, the plants get water twice a day. The summer is the difficult time for these cool growing Disa . The survival rate wasn't as high as I hoped for and there were quite a bit of death over the summer. But I may have some survivors which might flower for the next year. So it is a little bit of progress forward. The next step may be that I need to add refrigerated unit like what Tennis did in his informative page . I don't have e...
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