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I recently bought a beautiful little serrissa covered with amazing double blooms at a nursery recently. I read up on it and saw that it is a finicky species. I noticed reading through posts that everyone that mentions that their serrisas grow like weeds also mention that they live somewhere with high humidity. After about a week, many of the beautiful blooms on my serrisa began to turn brown and fall off. So I had the idea to flip a fishtank that I had sitting around and put the serrissa under it with a bowl of water next to it and suddenly all the buds on the thing opened and it is covered even more than when I bought it. It is quite breathtaking now. Long story short, it seems they really do love the humidity.

2-Apr-2008	#17
luft bonsaiTALK Neophyte Join Date: Mar-2008 Location: San Bernardino, CA Country: USA Posts: 8	I recently bought a beautiful little serrissa covered with amazing double blooms at a nursery recently. I read up on it and saw that it is a finicky species. I noticed reading through posts that everyone that mentions that their serrisas grow like weeds also mention that they live somewhere with high humidity. After about a week, many of the beautiful blooms on my serrisa began to turn brown and fall off. So I had the idea to flip a fishtank that I had sitting around and put the serrissa under it with a bowl of water next to it and suddenly all the buds on the thing opened and it is covered even more than when I bought it. It is quite breathtaking now. Long story short, it seems they really do love the humidity.