Unless it's a big plant where nothing really matters, I usually remove seedpods. They serve no purpose unless you wish to develop them. I prefer the plant to spend it's energy on making new leaves thus growing.

It shows you have perfect conditions for the plant.

Nick

Nick, they are flower buds! Tropicbreeze lives in the NT where it is currently somewhere in the mid 20's C and it is the dry season.
Outside here, same time, just before dawn it is 13C.

He? is growing the orchid in a tropical savannah climate which is not its natural habitat. I have it in a slightly warmed glass-house where it flowers twice a year.

Thanks for looking in and commenting.

The weather bureau classifies the climate here as Equatorial Savanna (as opposed to Equatorial Rainforest). Our rainfall only comes with the monsoon, so the dry season (winter) is very dry. Minimum temp this morning was 22.0C, maximum yesterday was 33.1C.

Arthur, I've seen this species growing about 100 kms west of Ravenshoe in Queensland, so still basically tropical savanna, although a bit cooler and a bit more humid than here. Otherwise, I've mainly seen them in the canopy gaps over creeks/rivers in rainforest.

Mine is in the shadehouse so more sheltered and humid than outside during the dry season. I did put one piece of it in a tree, on the sheltered side and so far it seems okay. I give it an occasional squirt of water and fertiliser, maybe once in a month or more.

The flower buds are opening now.

A flower opened right up.

David L Jones in Native Orchids of Australia says "A widely distributed species which is common in coastal scrubs and particularly the drier types of rainforest. It extends well inland onto the western slopes of the dividing range."
I'd rate it as easy to grow.

This post was edited by arthurm on Mon, Jun 10, 13 at 0:52

Ravenshoe is at the top of the Great Divide which slopes away very slowly to the west. In that same area there's a lot of Dockrillia linguiformis as well. It's an isolated pocket of vine thicket. Would be interesting to explore it during the wet season to see what else is there.

I'm hoping it'll be easy here and so far so good. But it'll start to really hot up late August and on through to early December when hopefully the rains will set in.