Psygmorchis pusilla-longevity?

[Traci]

Thank you Harvey and Sriram for your replies. I am encouraged to hear about the keiki. I am taking a chance and buying one that is planted in a little orchidarium bottle. It is growing in what appears to be nutrient agar of some sort. Supposedly the agar and the bottle both make it require less care. Hopefully I will be able to supply it with enough light to get it to bloom. If it goes well I am sure that I can make more agar for it in the future if I can get the recipe. I have made agar when I worked in a biochemistry lab with fungi and bacteria. I have seen it done a few times for genetically modified plants as well and they do seem to grow well in it. None of them were orchids though. As I recall for the plants the fertilizer had to be mixed just right as did the auxins and other hormones.
Isn't it funny that we all seem to have a plant or two that we cannot grow yet others that we can grow that those around us cannot? I cannot seem to grow a Venus fly trap no matter what I do. I really like them so it is shame they don't like me.

[sciencegal]

Isn't it funny that we all seem to have a plant or two that we cannot grow yet others that we can grow that those around us cannot? I cannot seem to grow a Venus fly trap no matter what I do. I really like them so it is shame they don't like me.

I have been collecting succulents lately since they do not mind my dry conditions and I have lots of room for them whereas the orchid tent is full. They all do well if I can restrain myself from watering except for Lithops - the stone like one. I received one in a wholesale lot of other types a few weeks back. The Lithops took one look at me and keeled over and died. I knew it would. They always do.