sm1mex Posted July 8, 2023 Report Share Posted July 8, 2023 Looking for Vanda or asdocenda Vanda orchid at lakeside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibarra Posted July 8, 2023 Report Share Posted July 8, 2023 Call them and ask or go there : Vivero Azucena Nursery Javier Mina #43 • Ajijic Open 9am-3pm / 4pm-6pm Contact 331-894-0744 VIVERO LAS PALMAS. Carretera Ajijic-Jocotepec #648. Telephone: (376) 766-0504. Hours Mon-Sat 9-1, 2-7; Sun 10:30a-2pm. Vivero san antonio, 246 San Jose Open 8am Coming from Ajijic, turn right on San Jose towards the lake..... at the traffic light just East of the Coca Cola Plant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floradude Posted July 9, 2023 Report Share Posted July 9, 2023 Vanda's are a little tricky here and are usually expensive. $1000 is not uncommon The best option if from one of the local growers, but the nursery mention does get them from time-to-time. Just keep looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinR Posted July 14, 2023 Report Share Posted July 14, 2023 Not ti hijack this... But there has been a Mexican guy walking around the Aijijic Plaza & Malecon on weekends that has been selling what looks like orchid plants (not booming)... Does anyone know what he has?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natasha Posted July 14, 2023 Report Share Posted July 14, 2023 28 minutes ago, KevinR said: .. Does anyone know what he has?... What he has are orchids harvested illegally from the wild........ has been doing this for years and years. Must be well-enough "connected" because he's never been stopped........😒 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibarra Posted July 15, 2023 Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 We bought two of them 16 years ago. Never bloomed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm1mex Posted July 15, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 He gets them illegally from the trees in the mountains. Please stay away. The species are protected. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyvmx Posted July 15, 2023 Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 The Vivero just west of Mom's restaurant and nextdoor to the Wizz office in Riberas usually has Vandas and several other orchids. Doesn't open until 11 or 11 30. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floradude Posted July 15, 2023 Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 Vandas are from Asia. The Vandas sold here are hybrids. What makes you think they grow in the trees locally? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Posted July 15, 2023 Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 Nobody said that. Yes, the OP is looking for Vandas but the comment made was about the guy who walks around selling orchids and those are the orchids that grow in the trees locally and that are harvested illegally. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm1mex Posted July 15, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 Vandas don’t grow in trees. Bromeliads stag horn ferns and some species grow in trees and wild orchids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmh Posted July 15, 2023 Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 wild orchids also grown in the ground, it depends on the type of orchids. Both in CHiapas we have wild orchids growing in the ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floradude Posted July 15, 2023 Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 Orchids belong to the largest group of plants. They are found on every continent, except Antarctic. They grow naturally everywhere--on the ground and in trees, etc. Most of the orchids we grow are epiphytes....they grow in trees. This includes. Vandas. . There are 65 some species in this Asian Genus that are mostly epiphytic, although there are some lithopytic and terrestrials that exist, but they are all monopodial in growth habit and are Asiatic in origin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm1mex Posted July 15, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 I never knew vandas would grow in trees. We always had to grow them in wood slated box baskets with a media they grew well in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floradude Posted July 16, 2023 Report Share Posted July 16, 2023 It is not that they would grow, but the evolved thousands of years ago growing in trees. I have been growing orchids for more than 40 years. Most of the species (Cattleyas for example) that we grow at home for their beautiful flowers evolved in trees where they grow today. We grow them in pots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmh Posted July 16, 2023 Report Share Posted July 16, 2023 yes orchids aare fascinating, I found out last time I was in France that a specific orchid grew in my ssister lawn and she kept cutting it with the mower, now she mows around it but I never knew we had orchids in France and even less growing in lawns. An enthemologist friend of mine tells me they are endangered.. no wonder if they grown in lawn... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm1mex Posted July 16, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2023 Floradude: where do you find your orchid growing containers/and wood slated square baskets and media they need to grow in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeside7 Posted July 17, 2023 Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 We currently pay 300/400 pesos for good size orchids. This summer we visid friends in S. Carolina and surprised to see th3m on offer for $10-14 in the supermarket stores Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyvmx Posted July 17, 2023 Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 I was using the wood slat baskets with coco coir and redwood chips. Now I've switched to the baskets with the molded coco coir liners. They will also hold soil as well. I have two large fiberglass bowls filled with orchids and shredded coco coir. This year they produced 10 to 12 stems with blooms each. Last year I wrapped PVC pipe with the coco coir and attached the plants. These hung from the railing of an upstairs balcony. They did well but required daily watering. In Florida I visited an orchid nursery. The shade house was filled with baskets mounted 15 feet high and the roots hung down almost to the floor. The watering system misted the room every half hour without warning. The vanilla bean comes from an orchid and each bloom lasts for 24 hours. It must be pollinated by a particular bee to produce one bean. Now they are in shade houses and women with very small hands do the pollination. Originally they worked with the orchids in the trees on the mountain. This was where they were discovered in Papantla, Veracruz, Mexico. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmh Posted July 17, 2023 Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 I have a vanilla orchid on a tree here and it has produced beans without help but better polinated them by hand if you want beans for sure.In cuestzalan and Chiapas there are great pots made out of fern roots but I think it is is illegal to ship them unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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