Indoor Orchid Garden

[ari]

hi, im Ari, Malaysia staying in Jakarta,here are some photo of my small indoor orchid garden, most of the species i have are wild Indonesian orchids, its quite easy and cheap to get wild orchids here except you need to be care full not to buy fakes, but on some lucky days you could find some rare and new stuffs.




















el cheapo hybrid orchids section...belongs to the wife so dare not throw them away..






i like this very much...cool eh ...mini rubber tree










the wild section....many of them are not properly ID until they flower, cant really trust what the seller tells you as most collectors are simple village folks


this one i collected myself in Garut ,West Java...Malleola ligulatta



this one is from Tasik Malaya, West Java.......Bulbophyllum macranthum


got this last year from Irian Jaya, i collected quite afew from areas around Sorong, but this the is only one that survived....Bulbophyllum arfakianum


Cymbidium Rossum....a new find from Jambi , Sumatera. it was said that the flowers will grow up right vertically...well thats what the man said...


bulbophyllum laxiflorum....got it from the nusery...it looks wild to me
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luisia javanica...collected this from Cianjur West Java...a common plant in this area


this is my favourite....simply cos i paid quite abit for this...Ascocentrum Aurantiacum



another rare one Dendrobium Anosmum "Ambon" from Leste Timor...rare bcos Timor is no longer part of Indonesia


























some of my pitchers









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[kit1212]

OMG!!Your indoor garden filled with orchids,ferns and some neps are so NICE!Really like orchid paradise.Thanks for sharing.

[atmccmn]

Hi Ari,

You've really done well in decorating your airwell. It certainly does have the serene atmosphere with the addition of Buddha statues . I see you are having a vertical garden in the making. Very nice!

[ari]

thanks guy..actually i would have done more except the house doesnt belongs to me, sort like rented, well, in Jakarta when you rent a house its not like in Malaysia where pay monthly, here you pay everything in advance, for example 3 years, no choice la since my business is in Jakarta so need to rent and theres not much one can do to the garden if its a rented one...soon or later you have to give it up
One question i need to ask the experts and sifus here, do orchid do well in cooler climate? i have a house , a retirement home actually in west java, its about 1200 meters above sea level, temp about 20`C to 24`C all year round, misty in the morning up to 9am and its quite wet has it does get a lot of rain ...i know hybrid pitcher plants dont do well here expect for the local species ( they it call highland pitchers)
is it possible or anyone has any experience planting wild lowland orchids in these condition?

thanks in advance

[atmccmn]

Hi Ari,

You are very lucky to have a retirement home there. With that kind of temperature provided with excellent ventilation, you can grow almost everything.

Originally Posted by ari

thanks guy..actually i would have done more except the house doesnt belongs to me, sort like rented, well, in Jakarta when you rent a house its not like in Malaysia where pay monthly, here you pay everything in advance, for example 3 years, no choice la since my business is in Jakarta so need to rent and theres not much one can do to the garden if its a rented one...soon or later you have to give it up
One question i need to ask the experts and sifus here, do orchid do well in cooler climate? i have a house , a retirement home actually in west java, its about 1200 meters above sea level, temp about 20`C to 24`C all year round, misty in the morning up to 9am and its quite wet has it does get a lot of rain ...i know hybrid pitcher plants dont do well here expect for the local species ( they it call highland pitchers)
is it possible or anyone has any experience planting wild lowland orchids in these condition?

thanks in advance

[funkychips]

OMG Ari, this is exactly what my dream space is like!!! I've always wanted a house with an 'airwell' section. It's like a house biosphere, the air within the walls is always humid. One thing though, does the sunlight shine through the section all year round, I mean like when the sun rays shift during certain parts of the year?

Like Andy says, your retirement home is a dream garden waiting for you. The only limitation is space. Most lowland orchids can be grown from anywhere at sea level to highland conditions.

I really really love to grow orchids too, but currently I do not have enough niche space to grow wet sensitive orchids like paphios. I hope to grow them this way where they get enough bright light but won't be overexposed to rain. Or do you control their watering? Please advise, I'm already head over heels looking at your garden space!!

Alvin

[kentosaurs]

I can never seem to grow orchids but when i look at normal houses all around i see orchids in direct sunlight vining high up and flowering....

[ari]

Originally Posted by kentosaurs

I can never seem to grow orchids but when i look at normal houses all around i see orchids in direct sunlight vining high up and flowering....

its easy actually...just leave them alone, minimal care and dont move them about
i used to live in cheras many many years ago before moving on, its quite hot there but orchids do grow except its quite diffcult to get the orchids i wanted in KL ...so i was confined to mostly hybrids and bloody expensive too

[ari]

Originally Posted by funkychips

OMG Ari, this is exactly what my dream space is like!!! I've always wanted a house with an 'airwell' section. It's like a house biosphere, the air within the walls is always humid. One thing though, does the sunlight shine through the section all year round, I mean like when the sun rays shift during certain parts of the year?

Like Andy says, your retirement home is a dream garden waiting for you. The only limitation is space. Most lowland orchids can be grown from anywhere at sea level to highland conditions.

I really really love to grow orchids too, but currently I do not have enough niche space to grow wet sensitive orchids like paphios. I hope to grow them this way where they get enough bright light but won't be overexposed to rain. Or do you control their watering? Please advise, I'm already head over heels looking at your garden space!!

Alvin

Yea man i didnt gave a thought about the direction of light when the earth shift...thanks for reminding me and now i got another headache to deal with sort like when you dont know you wont do anything about it, but when you do know you will roll on your bed thinking on how to deal with it

my airwell do get a few hours of direct sunlight, the left gets it in the morning around 10am the right gets it around 3pm...thats why all the good stuff are on the left side , many years ago the nusery aunty told me afternoon sunlight no good

about paphios, the ones i saw in the wild (west java highlands) they are found among the roots of big trees and rocks, the ground is indeed wet or covered with moss...very little direct sunlight ever reaches them if it reaches them at all. i have collected them many times...but it seems they never can survive the hot climate of Jakarta which is below sea level, in the end i buy them from the nusery (rp20,000...abt rm7) and to my surprise the nusery man told me that he got them from the same place where i had collected only he collected the baby ones and grow them to proper selling size....guess i was greedy taking the daddy ones..well human la, when its for free, always take big ones
actually i do have a watering system.....its call PRT...'pembantu rumah tangga'...or indo maid as you call them in Malaysia, she waters them once evey 2 days in the moning before sunrise


yea the retirement house does have alot of space ...3.25 hectares of sloping land with 2 small spring water streams cutting thru and feeding Lake Saguling 6km away...this sort of land is not suitable for cultivation so to the mind of the kampung folks its worthless but to someone with a view to build an old english country home ...this is it man...a jewel. i got last year at 7000rupiah per sq meter( rm2)...so im broke now after paying for this and no more money to build any home yet.

[caseyhoo]

Hi there, you have a nice "airwell" area!!!!

BTW, you are ari that into planted tank sometime ago? You know Dom, stanChung they all?