just to relate, when I bought some miltonopsis from trader joes back a year or so when they gave you a broad name on a tag, they said miltonia... Just recently have I relized they were something else. But they are beautiful plants (and fragrant) and therefore I give them a nice home. I keep mine at intermediate to warm temps and there just fine. I would give it a shot, you never know ;)

Looks like I have to give it a shot since no one wants to trade.

I felt like you Bea, but recently voluntarily jumped on the miltonopsis bandwagon, I'm going to see how that goes for me too. They're so pretty, it's worth a shot.

Well, I believe in weakly weekly (or somewhat like that) and I'm using clay already (because of a string of coincidences with this Miltonia), so hopefully...hopefully I have enough going for me. I'm thinking this west window may be too much for it (the isolation ward) and will probably be moving it soon to a shadier east window.

avondale, What do you put in the bottom of your cool pots? I have a couple (no miltonopsis just yet) & I believe it was suggested to place some type of stone in the bottom before adding your mix. What works for you?

Terri

I just use fine fir bark. You don't need to add anything to the bottom of the cool pots. Those cool pots have a cone at the bottom of the pot and four holes on the side of the pot. These pots are nothing like clay pots that you buy in the store. Last year I purchased eight larger cool pots and transplanted all eight of my cool growing cymbidiums in the pots. In Feb. all eight of my cymbidiums put out two or more spikes. A couple of them are still in flower.

Thanks! I'm encouraged by your success with these plants.

It is the old problem. What is easy here, might be extremely difficult somewhere else. That is why people should at least put their US State next to their name.

At the orchid society I belong to, about 1400 plants are benched at monthly meetings and shows per annum. You would be lucky to see 1 or 2 (or any) Miltoniopsis benched.

As for seeing something like a Dracula. I've seen one in 40 years of orchid growing.

Why is this so?

The Climate.

The lack of knowledge of how to grow orchids indoors.

A tendency to concentrate on "easy genera".

Rbarron I agree. Those flowers are beautiful. Avondale thanks for sharing your culture. I also grow most of my orchids indoors because north FL weather is schizophrenic and I can't be running plants in and out all the time. My plant room stays at around 80 degrees pretty much April-October when the outside is 85-90+. I will keep this plant inside in a clay pot and will let you all know a year from now how it's done. Hopefully it will adapt to that temp. My humidity is pretty high at 70-80% so that should help it. We'll see.

Hi Bea, when the other thread about Florida climate was active, I looked up the climate conditions for North Florida. Love "north FL weather is schizophrenic". Good luck and I hope you succeed in growing Miltoniospsis.

Oh Arthur. I grew up in Greece by the sea and what marvelous weather that was. Mild and stable. But no complaints. In FL it's warm/hot and it doesn't snow. I hate snow.