r/Jewelorchids

I'm new to jewel orchids indeed this will be my first one and I saw a disclaimer where I was going to buy my first macodes petola "dark". It says plants shipping with no leaves due to import.

Why they are shipping it with no leaves and can plant survive that way?

Update: I talked with the supplier he told that they generally do it for big leafed plants to decrease cargo fees he said macodes won't come leafless.

I'm about to get my first Anoectochilus what should I use as substrate I was planning

2 sphangum peat, 2 coco fiber and 1 perlite with some bark.

What's your success with plantkeeping/plantcare when going on a long vacation?

I just went on a one month long vacation this summer and specifically showed the person taking care of my plants how to water and wrote approximately how often to water (but also how to "check the soil" manually). Well... I lost 3 of my small jewel orchids for good (2 dried up/got cooked and one got overwatered).

My cystorchis stenoglossa dried up, one small special ludisia discolor hybrid rotted and one anoectochilus also dried up. One other plant is still fighting for its life now. Some others looked a bit worn out but are now well again. Only the big and established multi stem plants looked "okay", but most single stem ones suffered.

I know that watering and grading soil moisture levels is hard for "non plant people".

But a lot of times additional stuff happens I never thought about before: The person had to take the plants out from a shelf to water them and for some reason did not put them back into the same place: Bigger plants were put on the top shelf, even if they sat in some of the lower shelves before. Something I never thought about could happen. So some jewel orchids got about 1500-2000FC light and dried out fast thanks to a small mounted pc fan, because they now sat in the phalaenopsis shelf spot. But well, I also didn't tell the person that the light levels and fans actually differ and the placing actually matter a lot for these plants...

I've been successfully growing a variety of different houseplants for a while, including a few tropical species, and figured I'd love to try and grow my first orchid. I was browsing orchids online and absolutely fell in love with the golden jewel orchid (anoectochilus chapaensis). It's arrived today and is absolutely beautiful. I've set it up in a bright area, but not near a window, and in it's own little makeshift terrarium. So far I'm struggling a little bit to maintain it's humidity levels, my hygrometer is registering between 60-70% humidity, though I know it prefers more 70-90%. Any tips for increasing the humidity without risking rot? ☺️