What a great overview on S. lutea!! Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to find online. I have a nice little guy living in my shower. He gets a shower as often as I do and seems to like it. But so slow growing! I've had him since before Covid. Wish I could find more.
So I'm having some sort of epiphytic cactus attack and I'm binge watching your videos. I cant believe you're putting that in a biorb! I'm coming from the begonia world, but It started with a dragon fruit this summer, then an epiphyllum oxypetalum, and I was hooked.
Hi Amy! Begonia are amazing 💚! The smaller Schlumbergera lutea did not like it in the biorb but the larger more established one is doing ok. They are so finicky. I recently put small ficus trees in the biorbs and they are doing well. I found to make them a little less “sopping wet tropical” the way to go was not to fill the reservoir because it is just way too wet. I do really love the aesthetic of the biorbs though. 😂 wait until you see a big hybrid in bloom... it will just be over. I’ll never forget the first epiphyllum hybrid bloom I saw 😍 nothing else would do after that!
@@EpiphyticCacti oh dear. Well I was lucky enough to buy a 10 year old epiphyllum oxypetalum this summer. It had 16 blooms. I lost my mind! I was having my neighbors over to view. I am and ALWAYS will be a foliage gal but damn those blooms got me good
@@EpiphyticCacti the biorb is great! Definitely not without its faults, how great you were able to make it work for you! A friend of mine has one for her terrarium begonia, solineras and sensitive philos and it's really a sight to behold. I bet the ficus trees look adorable!!! I bought my oxypetalum with 16 blooms. The first night 6 opened and I had my neighbors over to stare at it. I've never seen (or smelled) anything like it. You are right, since then I just keep thinking about them. I've purchased 8 more🤗
"You have to be good with it costing a lot of money and then in your normal plant/home environment it will die." Convinced! I don't want one!! Except "it might do well in a BiOrb." - Which I have. (oh sweet jeezus was my actual comment... lol :) ♥
It didn’t do well in BiOrb, well at first it did but eventually it started dropping big chunks of clades in there too, eventually I had to take it out and while it’s still alive it looks terrible. This species is easy to grow if you can grow it outside year round. You can grow it easily indoors if it’s grafted or if you grow it in semi-hydro. It’s extremely finicky about it’s roots having a lot of aeration but also wants to be evenly moist.
Here in the southeastern United States, the humidity tends to be very high and our dry season short. Our temperatures in the Piedmont are too cold for outdoor cultivation after mid-October. And I would love to see how growers along the coastal plain of Georgia and South Carolina fare with this. Hatiora salicorniodes thrives here if that is any indication.
Some growers have luck with this kid but so far he has just been nothing but temperamental! It’s just a matter of figuring out exactly what he wants. Hatiora salicornioides does very well here both outdoors and indoors, much less temperamental.
Greatl video! Thank you! The more recent video on the lutea species shows you really figured a lot of things out! Heck yeah. Any thoughts or findings on AIRFLOW requirements for ssp. bradei? Doesn't seem like the BiOrb moves much air. In my setup, I can raise humidity a bit via enclosure, but that really means really still air unless I get a small fan for the enclosure... I humbly seek your counsel.
@@EpiphyticCacti thanks so much! since my question, I've installed a tiny 40mm pc fan in my terrarium and find that it helps prevent mold than anything. hopefully my Schlumdawgs take:)
I saw in another video that had a lutea grafted on pereskiopsis. Do you find it is more stable to humidity and moisture or does it still need an extremely humid condition? Thanks love your videos
Hi! I’m not sure yet! I have a few grafts of S. lutea ssp. bradei on Pereskiopsis but I’ll need to see how they do over the winters here indoors with the dryer air from heaters. Grafts of some of the the other species do well over the winter though.
@@EpiphyticCacti oh hey, here I am a year later and mine has grown great! It's a grafted one, I'm coming back to try out rooting a cutting in semi hydro
@@laurie.n2487 excellent! I replied to you on Facebook about starting in semi-hydro 😊. I did find that geolite works a bit better than hydroton but I’m sure other things work too.
@@EpiphyticCacti yes ty! I would go with pon which I believe is just pumice and zeolite? Have you heard of stratum? It's used as gravel in aquariums, so far everything I've rooted in it loves it so might experiment with that too
