{"id":37752,"date":"2021-04-28T20:49:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T04:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=37752"},"modified":"2021-05-01T08:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T16:06:04","slug":"orchid-post-mortem-ada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/28\/orchid-post-mortem-ada\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Post Mortem: Ada"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Brassia<\/a>\"Brassia<\/a>\"Brassia<\/a><\/p>\n

Every now and then, I manage to kill an orchid. Recently, it was my Ada aurantiaca<\/em>. The species has been renamed<\/a> Brassia aurantiaca<\/em>, but I bought it under the Ada name, so that’s how I usually refer to it. After it died, I realized that we didn’t take many photos of it over the years. Fortunately, I have enough to illustrate it here, and also a few more from shows and gardens.<\/p>\n

\"Brassia<\/a>\"Brassia<\/a>\"Brassia<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Brassia<\/a>\"Brassia<\/a>\"Brassia<\/a><\/p>\n

This great cool grower<\/a> really stands out with its brilliant orange flowers. I had repotted<\/a> it before without problems, but a couple years ago, after repotting, I left it in a damp, shady location for too long. When I finally realized it after a few months, most of the plant was rotting. That’s an uncommon issue for me, especially for my outdoor plants<\/a>, which live in windy conditions near the ocean. I doused the orchid with hydrogen peroxide, rinsed it off, and coated it with cinnamon powder. Those natural remedies are very effective in stopping fungal and bacterial rots. Later, I moved it back into a sunnier spot<\/a>. However, the remainder of the plant never thrived again. Two years later, it died during a heat wave.<\/p>\n

\"Brassia<\/a>\"Brassia<\/a>\"Brassia<\/a><\/p>\n

To supplement the first three rows of photos of my plant, in the fourth row, there are two pictures from Dave’s trip to the Cloud Forest Conservatory in Singapore<\/a>, and one from the 2018 Pacific Orchid Expo. The Singapore photos show yellow varieties. If I ever buy another Ada, orange or yellow, I’ll remember to take more pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every now and then, I manage to kill an orchid. Recently, it was my Ada aurantiaca. The species has been renamed Brassia aurantiaca, but I bought it under the Ada name, so that’s how I usually refer to it. After it died, I realized that we didn’t take many photos of it over the years. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-photos","category-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37752"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37821,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37752\/revisions\/37821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}