Quote Originally Posted by ozorchid View Post
hello there ntgerald. I have just scored one of these wonderful vandas for my collection of species vandas and am wondering how you grow it... I heard that they like same temperatures as the V. coerulea but deferent in that they need deep shade???!!!, can you shed some light on this for me? bit confused as my my coerulea is growing perfectly and flowering in the glasshouse which is not heated and experiences anything from 5C to 44C centigrade in winter lows and summer highs respectively.
Hope to hear from you as my plant arrives this week and already in flower!
Cheers
So, it does need cooler temperatures. I don't know whether they should be needing temps as low as coerulea, though.

And, bright shade is better.