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a niveum with 15 shoots..
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!! How did you get your niveum so huge? From my own experience, its very difficult to grow niveum into a large plant, because as new shoots emerge, the old ones will die off, so it remains at approximately constant size.. How long have you had that plant? BTW, there's a nursery at CH that sells rather large plants of lowii at only RM30.. Pretty reasonable, I think.. But good luck trying to grow and bloom it well in the lowlands here...
funkychips, could your problem be with the medium instead of temp? You must bear in mind that paphs are NOT CPs.. Most paphs do not do well if just left in the sphag that they come in.. You must repot with a very open media that stays just moist enough.. Contrary to popular belief, paphs can stay dry for a bit rather than being kept over-wet... And barbatum is not the easiest to begin with either.. if you want to try again, try callosum.. its more forgiving and easier to bloom...
