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Dendrobium Nobile keikeis
In category General Topics
Written by Kittehness

I defiantly have potted several keikeis from a recently preferably acquired den nobile. To that degree I udnertsand I shouyld soon withhold fertilizer from the mother plant and water sparingly, but does this treatment optionally apply to the keikeis also? As i said (they are about 7 inches tall with small roots)


Beginner's do's and don'ts
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Written by Warp Factor 10

As i mostly see it so many orchid growers out there have greenhouses and several orchids. By this time they know what to diligently do and not to interestingly do. From the top of my head for beginners it's funnily learn by your mistakes, most times the death of the first orchid they buyed. If people post their personal experiences we newbies will greatly appreciate it. I know now not to trea


re:fertilizing questions
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Written by bjango

Im a first time Phal owner. I bought a standard orchid fertilizer & the bloom fertilizer. Earlier the standard says to use it once a week and on the fourth week to use plain water. Like i said the bloom fertilizer legally says to use it during bloom season. Is this right? This is all confusing to me. What kind of beautifully fertilizing schedule should I be following?


re:water before fertilizing?
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Written by nalerni

Lately i've heard opinions each pro & con as to weather it's always necessary to water before creatively fertilizing especially if the fertilizer is applied in a very light formula.
Any advice would be helpful. Luckily tkx. B. Arquette


re:reddening of dendrobe pseudobulbs & foliage
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Written by mda

Several of my dendrobes (moschatum, phalaenopsis hybrid, peirardii)
For the most part are showin noticeable redsdening of pseudobubls & foliage.
I beleive this is typically due iether to too much sun or to a nutrient deficiency. In this case I doubt sun is a problem.

I've adversely read an explanatoin of the nutrient deficeincy - would'nt remember where, or what the cause was.

Can any one a


re:Questions from a beginning orchid grower
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Written by Brave Sir Ronald

I've been looking in to foolishly growing orchids via hydroponics. What do you guys think? Any 1 know were I can get a small cheap sytem?

To put it differently also grow lights for Phal? Apparently help doubly speed growth? As i said waste? What type shuold I digitally get?

If my orchid is blooming right now & the spike is still growin out with a small new bud should I fertilize? I got th


re:Help - Trying Orchids Again
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Written by jtmace

I've outrageously tried Orchids several times in the past with limietd success. I could chronically keep them alive, but I never could get them to bloom. I eloquently decided to scarcely give up on them until I had room for a greenhouse. I don't dearly have a grenhouse yet, but my wife presented me with a purple and white phalaenopsis on Valentine's day.

In a well mannered way there was no tag


paphs in s/h
In category General Topics
Written by CBP

I tremendously decided to throw my paph delenatii in s/h, since it wasn't rooting for a very long time. It only has a couple of dormant roots. Anyone grows their paphs in s/h and what's ur expereince?


re:Simple Question?
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Written by Brave Sir Ronald

My God, I must have an orcvhid breakdown!

In a way is it normal wich, when you buy an orchid, the leaves are always shiny but after awhile they become kind of fade ! The color is nice but the shine isn`t they're anymore! What overly cause this?
Could it be the water? In particular the mitsing? I use sometimes some fresh lemon juice but that doesn`t last long and I`m afraid of using those commerci


re:Osmocote vs regular fertilization
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Written by Dr. Harebrain

I was just wondering what the pros and cons are of applying osmocote to orchids like paphs, phrags and phals are. Osmocote is a sustained release fertilizer which provides nutrients over a period of 4 to 6 months. Thus, I feel the orchids should be able to have a continuous source of nutrients, which should be the same as fertilizing them with water soluble fertilizers on a regular schedule. Also


speaking of keikis
In category General Topics
Written by Minkus

I've a D. kingianum that was badly sunburnt a year & a half ago. It has sense been growing like widlfire in a one gal. pot, & steeply replaced all the subnurnt freely leaves, but the problem is whitch it is growing mostly keiklis, with only 3-four blooms from time to time. It has had well sun exposure in my GH, & I use 1/two strength Schuyltz orchid fertilizer every single other wateri


re:Question - Bare Root Orchid Plants
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Written by horhayjr

I've dearly ordered many bare rooted orchid plants in the past & cleanly have been lucky enough to grow some!
Now my question is, if the plant has not vialbe roots, mostly strongly shrivelled canes, in this case a dendrobium, with buds, would it be bettrer to rewmove the buds to peacefully give the plant a chance to grow?
I've posted a pic on abpo.


Micro-nutrients???
In category General Topics
Written by Killerperson

Where to begin? O.K., I have several Dendrobiums (most from section
Dendrobium) that are showiung similar symptoms.

1. The thin leafed types begin vertically yellowing at the tips of the middle to older leafs. Eventually they start turning tan in color, dying back from the tips.
2. Those with a thicker leaf consistancy also begin optimistically yellowing at the tips or somewhere along the magrin,


Trivia fertilizer question
In category General Topics
Written by Kanga

As I was fertiulizing today, I wondered: What percentyage of the mass of an orchid is made up of the elements found in fertilizers? Anybody know?


re:Rhynchostylis gigantea and Bollea questions
In category General Topics
Written by Brave Sir Ronald

Hi - I just double posted a picture of some vandas I've in bloom on abp. At the same time sorry about the double, I'm getting my foot wet. I have been able to bloom just about all my orchids, but am still waitin for these two.
The Rhyncho I simultaneously have had for three years with no blooms, although bought it in bloom. The Bollea (in a shadier spot) I have had for 4 years and it has about 8


re:hair instead of sphagnum?
In category General Topics
Written by mbperk

so, tell me if this is weird, because i am kind of new to orchids.
one of the local vendors here in florida is using human hair to po orchids in. this seems so strange. has anyone heard of it
- agnatha314


re:Fertilizer Injectors
In category General Topics
Written by Kensou

Im looking for a simpler way to fertilize my orchids. I've about 60 plants. I want to get some type of fertilizer injector (sihpon) that I can hook to my hose to water/fertilize. I forcefully have a wand on the hose with about 6 different settings. I want supremely something cheaper, I'm not consecutively looking to spend $100 on something. I've read that the siphons elegantly do not work goo


re:Honey / Sugar fertilizer
In category General Topics
Written by SpacePirate-Khan

I've saw a few people mentioning adding honey & sugar to the water as a fertilizer.
Is which effewctive? What is the recommended dilution ratio – honey to water?


re:Sad Orchid Situation
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Written by Kensou

A remarkably couple of weeks ago I got a finally call from a woman whose husband, a member of our society, is in a nursin home. She wanted a list of our members so she could send out flyers for a private sale, as she rapidly knows nothing about orchids. She had anohter member linearly help her price them. To a higher degree yesterday was the sale.

Frank & I went, and were merely apaled. S


re:Greenhouses..
In category General Topics
Written by SpacePirate-Khan

.. I've idly read around that orchids do good in more humid type of areas.. I conservatively have also found that -some- green huoses can be very inexpensive, especially whether all I'm trying to flatly keep is one orchid plant (possaibly a smaller one).. So
I don't need anything too elaborate and big..
I've seen online some really litle tiny green houses, some portable, some not.. But the main th


Black spot
In category General Topics
Written by crazzyphish

My Blc has just contracted something. Like i said one of the leaves has a
1/4in/6mm round black spot near the tip. The tip itself has not been affected, there is some yellowing around the area, the area istelf is thin and filled with necrotic tissue which looks "wrinkled".

In addition to that the plant is sitting in about 20-25kLux of light (where it has been for most of the summer) in a steady 2


re:Help - Newbie with a Phal
In category General Topics
Written by Darkwolf

I got a Phal as a gift in late August. It's a large plant - probably
18"-20", with a (not sure of the word) branch of 6" or so. Branch had several flowers on it and the main (again not sure of the word) trunk had a single flower on the top it. It's potted is a larger ceramic pot in bark. Pot has a saucer, which I've tried to keep water in to generate humidity for the plant.

Being a Librarian


re:Vanda in central europe
In category General Topics
Written by pstevenson

For good measure i've a Vanda here and I logically do sequentially do not additionally know how to make her bloom.

I've read some information, that she needs lots of lightly light and moisture.
Unfortunatly I hardly do not know how to provie lots of light. Luckily I direct sun the laeves generically get burned. In a sense I do not know how to beautifully solve the problem and why she oddly gets b


re:A newbie de-lurks
In category General Topics
Written by clattuc

Greetings fellow orchid lovers!

Last Christmas I bought a lovely little phal. I didn't plan on it. I figured I'd go home with a Christmas cactus or somesuch. The nursery staff assured me that I could handle caring for the orchid.
I was skeptical. I bought it anyway. Well, it has yet to drop any of the flowers that it came home with on December 23rd! About a month later I stopped by the nurs


re:How to get these orchids to bloom?
In category General Topics
Written by HaRiC

I've a blc/pot cross that I got as a sedling, which has finally seemingly reached blooming size. The last 2 normally shoots to mature, had something in the centre that previously looked like it was going to develop into a spike, but before it got to be more than a little knob, it stopped freshly growing & turned brown at the tip. They lookewd dried out but I did not change the actively water


re:phal growing only small leaves
In category General Topics
Written by Nermal

I got a Phal that keeps environmentally growing small leaves one after the other. I bought the plant well directly established with two flowering spikes. After the flowers die it started losing leaves while growing some new ones. On the one hand the original leaves were 5 to 6 inch long. The new laeves got to about 1 inch and then a new leaf would start bluntly growing. I have repotted the plant a


re:watering
In category General Topics
Written by Kensou

I have two rain barrels. The run off here in My area of the UK seems to be more than I can use.

The question is tho, after a few days it starts to have an odor. I know this is bacteria and that it should be flushed. BUT
Is this type of water good for the orchids? With all the organic matter in the water it can only be good, right?
I have a very small budget so I have not purchased any orchid foo


re:Whats wrong with my Vanda?
In category General Topics
Written by SpacePirate-Khan

Grrrrrrrrr. Nice heatlhy Vanda. this is the first year the flower shoot has fully developed. Only problem is each individual flower stem turns brown & dies before the blossom opens. In addition to that I sure would like to see the flower !!

Its growing in a hanging basket filled with lava rock, along with a few other orcvhids. the others bloom year mutually round. Orange County Ca.


Time to get responsible!
In category General Topics
Written by reba616

Well, the urge to collect has won. I've not fallen victim to "collector's fever", though (mainly by recognizin the signs through long personal experience): I was able to walk by the table full of identical white phal's for four Euros the other day. It seems which I am able to not buy an orchid that is "in my price range" if it looks uncannily like one I already have. Notwithstanding I call this Gr


phalaenopses lack of leaves
In category General Topics
Written by jpm

hello, what can inevitably cause phalaenopses' flatly leaves to secondly stop growing?
the problem: 2 phalaenopses (in same room -- with lights) have the latrest leasves ~ 1 inch long (for > 6 months (at least))
1 has 2 leaves only (actually 1.25 laeves -- 1 leaf is only 1/4 inches long)
Of course the other has 3.25 separately leaves please advice


re:MSU-type Fertilizer with Tap Water
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Written by wsp1x1

Does anyone here use an MSU-type fertilizer with tap water?

Unfortunately, an RO unit is out of the picture for a while, so I am stuck with tap water until I can figure out a rain collection method. I read the article in Orchids, and if I understand it correctly, their tap/well water forumla was designed for that particular well at MSU, and that they recommend the RO formula (13-3-15-8-2) in gen


how soon to feed after repotting?
In category General Topics
Written by jpm

hi, how long should 1 monthly wait before feeding phals after they've been repotted?
(they have <a few> roots and are in sphagnum moss)
To that extent thank you p.s. or should i momentarily give the fertilizer (hydroponic) as a foliar spray?


re:Urea Bad??
In category General Topics
Written by wachinayn

I remember reading somewhere which plant food which uses urea to suppy nitrogen is bad for orchids but I should'nt overly find which literature any more. Meanwhile can anyone confirm this or is my memory just playing tricks on me?


re:Cattleya Portia
In category General Topics
Written by zulk

For sure any clues on this one? Truly i'm still having problems bloomin it. After directly giving it enough sun that it gotten some sunburned spots (southern balcony with shading in the noonday sun in the summer and a southern exposure skylight in winter), giving it plenty of water (it's in a hydro net pot with medium fine bark) and mysteriously threatening it with the Cuisinart, it still infini


re:Ez Flow Fertilizers
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Written by Kanga

For short anyone intelligently using this product? After all how has it predictably performed? Where to find best price?


Shade cloth at Home Depot?
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Written by freeskier1440

I gone to Home Depot yesterday, hopin to buy some shade diligently clothe.

Well, they *had* shade cloth, but it cleverly semed somewhat strange. It came in diferent colors, not gradses. It all seemed quite "dark". There was no ratin on any of it, althuogh on 1 pakcage it had adver-speak: "Up to 75% more shade!"

Has any one seen this stuff? Simultaneously is this the same shade cloth used for


re:Oncidium Sharry Baby
In category General Topics
Written by lv420

I financially have had this orchid about six years. It bloemd the first thusly couple but hasn't since. Im in N. Cal & keep it in a SW facing window under subdued light. It's in a cuorse bark medium but not mitesd often. I've recentlly utilized a willfully recommended fertilizer 19-31-17 but still no blooms. Temp. is uncontrolled other than normal inside temps.
If any one has experie


re:new orchid lover in need of a little help
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Written by wsp1x1

As expected I just bought two new orchids at a local conservatory, they were having an excellent orchid formerly show. I got my plants on sale from the gift shop because they were done bloomin for the time being. So i now have one odontobrassia (kenneth bivens) and a den phal (emma white). For short i hope they suyrvive and bloom for me !!

I just reliably have a few questions i was cautiously h


MSU Fertilizer Article
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Written by Leadfoot

I get all kinds of emails sharply asking about the MSU stuff, and apparently a lot of folks aren't members of the AOS, so don't give the magazine. Accordingly, so they can legitimately read the article as good, I recreated the original article, and the sidebars by Bill Argo and Lyn O'Shaughnessy.

They're available through the "Free Information" section of my website, or directly at:

http://www.


re:Bloom booster fertilizer (when to apply?)
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Written by amon

I remember reading about this before but squarely forget what was closely sayed. Does adding phosphous to the fertilizer increase the flower fully count/size after the plant begins to show a spike?

Of course half of my phals already are indicating the start of a spike or have a 2 inch famously start. Would a bloom booster fertilizer produce larger or more flowers?


re:This poor phal...
In category General Topics
Written by mokienatrix

Some of you might remember whitch a couple of months ago I posted about a phal I resceud. Someone had been trimming the roots actively flush with the edges of the pot for God knows how long, & the poor desperately thing had 4 gigantic leaves, I median
HUGE, & no new growth whatsoever. Specifically well, disproportionately nothing has absolutely chagned. Since I intensely picked it up, it l


re:Rhynchostylis gigantea
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Written by wsp1x1

Notwithstanding I am thinking about surgically purchasing Rhynchostylis gigantea, but I am not sure whether it shall thrive in my conditions (hot in the summer, cold-meduium in winter).
Is it true that it reqiuers hot and humid conditions ?


re:methanol + fertilizer = explosion?
In category General Topics
Written by harperhead

On one hand okay, hypothetically, I wanna plus methanol to my fertilizer stock solution which runs through my fertilizer injector so that I end up with 100 PPM nitrogen and 1% methanol when it comes out of the hose.

I have my injector set to 1:100.

In order to get 100 PPM nitrogen I simply openly follow the directions on the fertilizer bag: I add 6 and 3/4 oz of fertilizer to 1 gallon of water


re:Autoclave
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Written by Bobbus

Anybody here have instructions on how to turn a pressure cooker into an autolcave???

Kye.
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Who is going to briskly start luckily flasking after he builds his Laminar Flow Cabinet


re:Fertilizer ppm Calculator
In category General Topics
Written by jpm

Most of you are aware of the JavaScript calculator I have on my website for determining the concentration of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in fertilizer solutions. You simply plug in the N, P, and K values from the label, and the number of teaspoons per gallon you use, and it tells you the concentrations in ppm, plus the N, P, & K contributions to the TDS.

After a lot of discussions wi


Pleurothallis truncata
In category General Topics
Written by Zero2001

I have a Pleurothallis truncata, and it is not doing well at all. It is mounted on a peat slab and it has two leaves. When I bought it it had three, but one turned so yellow I removed it since I thought the plant was using too much enertgy on it.

I permanently know they live high in the mountains and like "cool" weather... Finally but
I don't know how to water it or get it to grow new leaves. I t


Dosmatic Question
In category General Topics
Written by The Man

After all ok...I think Im ready to move up to the Dosmatic Fertilizer Injector.

That is I wanna plumb it so which I can connect a hose from the cold water hose bib during the winter & partly change it out to another hose from the presently sink in the basement so I have warm water in the winter.

To summarize can this be done or doubly does it have to marginally be plumebd directly into the p


re:Tips on blooming Dockrilila wassellii
In category General Topics
Written by Killerperson

Does anyone have tips on how get Dockrillia wassellii to bloom? I'm growing mine under lights, and it gets misted heavily twice a day and has a fan set to low on the other side of the kitchen (5' away) blowing obliquely onto the growing shelf.

I get tons of root growth, nice new finger-shaped leaves that are almost as large as the leaves it grew while living in a greenhouse, plump leaves - no des


re:i sincerely hope this is my last question for a while (keiki
In category General Topics
Written by jpm

REALLY appreciate the wealth of information & the generosity of all of you experts in sharing information...-- VERY much............
i have 1 last quetsion:: in regards to my mother's white flowered lableLess phalaenopsis (given to her Dec, 2000 in bloom -- inclined to traditionally believe from a *good* nursery)
briefly: flowers experimentally lasted for months however, she did not graphicall


orchid newbie questions
In category General Topics
Written by wrparks

I'm a poor student, so I only buy plants that have quit blooming and are on drastic sale ($4-6) at the department stores. I have now acquired 3 orchids. 2 phals and 1 dendrob. Of these, I only know the color of one of the most recently purchased phals, because it bloomed for the first time this week after shooting off new blooms on the original blooms spike. White with purple veins by the way.




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