That's growing really well there. Are you spraying any fertiliser onto it? (When/if I get around to it) I spray the leaves and roots of my epiphytes with weak fertiliser. Looking at your Phal I was starting to get tempted to give it a try, until I noticed the healthy looking Tillandsia usneoides hanging in the tree nearby.

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This is the 3rd year on the tree . Was given to my wife for Mothers day in 82,grown in a pot in the shadehouse where it often double spiked but never failed to produce less than 12 flowers less than 6 inch span. Only complaint is the quanity and quality of the flowers knowing what it done in the past.

Have always used "Better Grow " "Weakly weekly" for all my orchids save the terrestrials. Thinking of increasing the strength in the next growing season?

you don't like Tillandsia?? That particular clump is a central Amer. type looks identical to the N Amer. until it flowers ,bright purple and around an inch accross rather than an eight and green .lol I also keep the N. Amer.type which tends to become weedy but is easy to harvest . I also have a S. Amer which has poked along for years and never flowered looks much like the others but leaves are a lustrous silver I suspect it's a high altitude type so hates my heat. Have never been able to identify them except to genus, exactly

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Nothing to be jealous of lol nature does all the work I just provide some guidance lol My personal favs are the "floofy" catts ,gigantic flowers in gaudy colors often with heavenly aromas but also a bit tempermental. To my mind the best cross of all time was Epidendrum X Cattleya have the form of Catts BUT with hardiness of Epidendrum though nobody ever calls them "floofy" lol Phals are spectacular for sure but a large heavily flowering Cymbidium blows them all away but the really "floofy" ones require a "Cool /cold rest period " For that I'd have to move lol Thanks gary

Don't know whether upping the strength of the fertiliser is such a good idea. Most epiphytes are adapted to low nutrient levels. High concentrations could have a negative impact.

It's not that I "don't like" Tillandsia, I do have a few of the larger ones. Just that usneoides only dies on me. I don't know which variety it is that I get. It's often attached to larger bromeliads when I buy them. The last lot was on a Tillandsia I bought start of the wet season. Now, as the wet season is ending, the usneoides is virtually all dead and the larger Tillandsia looking good. I had friends in Sydney who grew it, but is was becoming a pest and spreading all over their yard. Birds used to pull bits off for nest building and also drop bits everywhere.

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Always found it interesting that the "Spanish moss" is so common in the deep south growing on almost every horiziontal surface yet the further south you get into florida the rarer it becomes being replaced by other types yet it grows very easily here but doesn't seem to spread as it does in the north .

The central /S american types are very scant growers for me The clump in the pic is well over 10 years but it has been moved several times grows vertically drops off then dies though if I move it by hand it will grow lol . There are so many kinds of Tillandsia and at least for me very hard to identifylol I intend to add more types as my garden goes up unless Ma nature decides to flatten my trees again lol gary