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Oncidium Alosuka ‘Claire’

Big, small, I love them all.  Today small is cute and makes a great windowsill or tabletop display in the form of Oncidium Alosuka ‘Claire’ growing nicely in an 80mm pot.  As you can see from the photos that’s not a big pot, but boy is it putting on a display.  Now just a quick pointer for anyone that has purchased one of our 80mm Alosuka’s, it will most likely grow for another 12 months in that pot before it needs potting up.  One of the hardest things to learn about growing your orchids is when not to over pot them.
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Oncidium Alosuka ‘Claire’

Oncidium Alosuka is one of the typical yellow skirt dancing ladies which everyone thinks of when you say Oncidium.  Alosuka is a hybrid from what is called the Varicosum group of Oncidiums, or the group that loves its water during the warm months but hates water around its roots during the night or during the cooler months.  The Varicosum group make great epiphytes on trees or mounted on tree fern slabs (see photo).  During the warm humid months with plenty of rain about these Oncidiums will grow masses of aerial roots over their tree or mount, so always water every...