You have a nice, small clump of Polyrrhiza Lindenii growing there. I don't think it needs totally zero air movement since this encourages rot. I mean, in nature ghost orchids grow on the side of trees in the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve around a swampy area and I don't think that there is zero air movement over there. I guess the trick is to keep the moving air to a minimum, it should be very warm and humid to keep the plant from drying out. Strong air circulation has a tendency to reduce the temperature and dry up the surrounding air.
I used to have a small, ghost orchid thriving here in my growing area (and I'm in Manila, Philippines!) that I originally obtained from a Taiwanese grower-collector-friend from Taiwan. Our climate here is somewhat similar to Florida although I think it rains more often in Florida and the humidity is a bit higher (I was in Orlando, Florida way back in 1999 on vacation). What we have here is a wet and a dry season and during the dry season it does get hot and very sunny here (specially in lowland areas) so during the dry season I mist the growing area often. It was doing very well and slowly growing for about three months until some damned birds got into my growing/patio area and plucked the plant off its wood mount thinking it was nesting material. Super-duper Bummer indeed!
I am expecting a new plant to arrive this week or next from a grower-friend in Florida. I was successful with my first plant but am wiser and will be more careful now - - if it wasn't for those darned birds!!!! Geesh!
My friend told me that in captivity, the ghost orchid rarely sticks to the wood. In the wild, it grows on trees that grow out of the water, so the orchid leeches the majority of it's moisture from the wood and the air (with the occasional rain)....this causes them to stick to it. In captivity, most of it's moisture is supplied by misting or wetting, so the plant never really has to search for the water and draw it out of something else. He adds that he hasn't seen very many captive ghost orchids that have attached itself firmly to the mount....most of them kind of dangle (like an epiphytic cactus).
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Originally Posted by Brutal_Dreamer
It just got too wet. But this guy, who I purchased at the same time is doing really well--and he is just hanging there. It is hard to tell from the picture, but it really is a very shady spot--just the bottom corner of the greenhouse. The shelf it is hanging on blocks nearly all the light and nearly all of the air movement from the fans and humidifiers. So far so good anyway. 