{"id":819,"date":"2024-04-21T19:20:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T17:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/?p=819"},"modified":"2024-04-21T19:20:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T17:20:50","slug":"miniature-orchid-in-a-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"Miniature orchid in a bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I bought a cute little orchid at a plant meet, it&#8217;s an <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orchids.org\/grexes\/acianthera-sonderiana\">Acianthera sonderiana<\/a><\/em>. Apparently they grow easily in Sphagnum moss, kept very moist, with low light. It&#8217;s an epiphytic species that in the wild (Brazil) grows on branches of trees in cool moist forests. I asked the seller and he said it would be great in a terrarium, so I&#8217;m trying a bottle terrarium. I&#8217;ve got a few discarded laboratory reactor bottles, I think a 1L one would be a good fit. I only just managed to get the little orchid through the GL45 mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"818\" src=\"https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420567-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-822\" style=\"width:466px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420567-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420567-1-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420567-1-768x628.jpg 768w, https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420567-1-210x172.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I used some Sphagnum at the bottom (I hope it will come to life again), some lichen covered grape vines, and some pieces of moss from our balcony. I like how it turned out, I hope the orchid likes it too because I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be able to get it out again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420568.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-821\" style=\"width:273px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420568.jpg 563w, https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420568-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/invar.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/P1420568-118x210.jpg 118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also trying a few small vining aroids (a Rhaphidophora species and a Monstera species) with some Sphagnum in a 500mL and in a 2000mL lab bottle. I hope they take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a cute little orchid at a plant meet, it&#8217;s an Acianthera sonderiana. Apparently they grow easily in Sphagnum moss, kept very moist, with low light. It&#8217;s an epiphytic species that in the wild (Brazil) grows on branches of trees in cool moist forests. I asked the seller and he said it would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houseplants-hydroponics","category-terrarium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}