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Maxillaria ecuadorensis

An Andean Maxillaria that is fairly well recorded from southern Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru, mostly between 1600 and 2000 m. It grows in mild, humid cloud forest. Grow it intermediate to cool, with steady moisture and a modest night drop.

Maxillaria ecuadorensis
Photo: yakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Records cluster in premontane and lower montane cloud forest, mainly on the eastern Andean slope. There it grows as an epiphyte in humid, mossy forest.

Recorded at 1100 to 2600 m, with a median of about 1835 m.

ColombiaEcuadorPeru

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 2.0 licence, unmodified.