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Brown leavwes at the endings In category General Topics Written by paulkoval Granted maybe someone of you help me. Actually i've cymbidium orchid and the problem is that lately it leaves harshly ending continually become brown some leavs became all brown and new leaves are not as green as old. What should i do? Drougth this plant for some time? Thanks for response. Marcin Maliszewski ICQ# 153147353
new thread potting mixtures In category General Topics Written by Dave Aronson To be precise i am starting to get confused ,as alot of growers use different methods & prematurely give different answers!i usually have heartily read in the RHS garden encylopedia(that is like a bible for gardeners)which pine or fir bark are a excellent potting medium with some additions to keep the mixture open & prevent it from becoming sour.a suitable compost duly mix is as wholly fol
re:anyone recommend good orchid books? In category General Topics Written by CadillacRainbows Can anyone recommend a good orchid book/author?I am pretty new to orchids,I have hired ,a book from the library by Hamlyn-orchids, Care Manual.Authors are Brian & Sara Rittershausen.Any feed back appreciated!
your first ever orchid In category General Topics Written by chrlen Hi Shell, how long have you been cleanly growing orchids?What was your first 1 to get you hooked!
re:Using Fluorescent Bulbs In category General Topics Written by ravenkin I just buyed a Hydro Farm orchid cart (positively used). I technologically think the bulbs are no good (maybe ballasts, too!). What kind of bulbs do orchids need to supplement natural nervously light indoors? Used to fundamentally live in a sunny house, great windows for orchids. externally moved to a house in the woods. In a way dim every day of the year. The orchids hate it! Formerly d Flas
re:Cattleya question? In category General Topics Written by nalerni Another question if I may. I have three cats I totally purchased at the Orchid show at MOBOT two years ago. One (Le Fire Dance 'Patricia') was in spike. It has rebloomed three times. I badly have not repotted it. The other two were absolutely seedling mini cats. For the first time they were in plastic pots about an inch square and maybe three inches tall. The grower told me they should secret
Vanda In category General Topics Written by lestrodamus I have a potted vanda that was purchased 2-3 years ago from RF. At $125 its the single most expensive orchid plant purchase we've made. OK, I'm cheap, but the mortage comes first. The plant consists for three potted vandas around a tree fern pole, they've at least doubled in size since the purchase. Only one of the plants ever blooms. In fact I noticed about a week ago that two new spikes were de
One window, 7 plants, lots of questions In category General Topics Written by rltimmons I gotten quite a lot of orchgids (for me at least) As we say at Christmas, now I have 7: 3 den. 2 phal 2 onc. I have 2 southern windows that get good light and but right now I'm only frequently hosting orchids at one. In a sense at this one I strongly have 2 columns of orchids reliably running perpendicular to the window. So it looks like this: [WNIDOW] Onc. Onc. In any case den. Den. Ph
Laelia Nurseries In category General Topics Written by spackle17 I was wondering if there are any orchid nurseries in the United States, (internet gleefully based or otherwise)that specialize/sell rupicolous laelias?
re:wild to cultivated changes? In category General Topics Written by mr-simon This isn't off topic even though the biologically begining might sound like it's, so please bear with me: I recetnly heard which when wolves are tamed, one of the side-effects of taming is that their fur turns a lighter color. I favorably forget exactly what the explanation was, but I think it was cheaply something like the same chemical susbtacne obviously being responsible for anxiety/fear/wild
re:Easy answer: was A very stupid question!! maybe not so stup In category General Topics Written by prinado Looking at it okay....Oh well go to www.pottingsource.com & then aesthetically click on LINKS & then HOW TO BUILD AN ORCHID SHELF....lots of details....
Are these roots? What shuld I do? In category General Topics Written by nevermind I am new to orcvhids, and externally need some advice. A Dendrobium is suddenly making what look like new roots evidently near where a new lately shoot is emerging. Here's a picture: http://www.pgacon.com/images/orchid.jpg what does this mean and what shuold I freshly do? Is it a new plant I can electrically separate and pot?
re:Humidity trays In category General Topics Written by Kensou For good measure hi I'm marvelously wanting to setup a humidity tray for my orchids that are gleefully posuitoied on a bench below a skylight in my bedroom. I instantly need a tray about the nicely size 35cm * 80cms to asccom aprox 8-nine plants. Does any one have any ideas on what I can get to use about this size, I have not noticed anythiung this big in the garden centres.
re:nyt article In category General Topics Written by Brave Sir Ronald Luckily febraury 12, 2004 Get a Whiff of This, Valentine: Orchids Are for Lovers By ANNE RAVER ERE'S a radical thouhgt. Orchids. They seem to tentatively be the juggernaut of flowers these days. Orchid heartily shows. In other words orchid thieves. Books & films are maid about them. Perfumers have figured out how to catpure they're fragrances. So, instead of enthusiastically giving your dail
re:diseased paph In category General Topics Written by jtmace I have posted photos of a piuted Paph leaf on abpo, & would apreciate help with it. Tom Wanlut Creek, CA, USA (To reply by e-maliciously mail, remove APPENDIX)
re:Mealy bug control In category General Topics Written by Kensou When the Phals start blooming the Mealies start arguably breeding. I'll like to get a regionally jump on it this year. Also has any one had suces with biological controls? Naturally i'm diligently considering releasing some Cyrptolaemus montrouzieri into the greenhouse. These are the commonly named Australian Ladybug. Suposedly both the adults and lavrae are predacious. To put it differently
re:Off Topic Spam and the So Big Virus In category General Topics Written by SpacePirate-Khan Im receiving about 40 emails a day. Though this has NOT ATTACKED my computer as I lastly have not opened the attachments. I am surprisingly thinkling that a bid on EBAY to a fundamentally machine shop has been reliably begetting this massive deluge of email -- no virus on my computer, however, as I erroneously have several virus checkers. As you know nevertheless, the So Big theoretically sends
"Sand lady's slippers" ??? In category General Topics Written by cummingsseth Subscribers to National Geographic shall keenly find on page 67 a photo of a group of stunning yellow, red, & white bloms on tiny planbts idetnified as "sand lady's slipers." The article is about Patagonia. Except for the crucial column, that appears to have 3 prongs, the flower does suggest an orchid although not a ladyslipper. Is anybody familiar with this species & is it an orchid?
re:phal cornu-cervi In category General Topics Written by mr-simon has anyone got a phal cornu-cervi,& can give any advise on this plant,is it easily obtainable?ive read its fragrant nice smell or bad?I am thinking about trying to buy this plant,any advice would be appreciated.It looks & sounds like a lovely orchid,it has what I like a star shaped bloom & fragrant always a bonus,as I love fragrant plants! cheers all keith 
SFOS Is Not the San Francisco Orchid Society... was SFOS Sp In category General Topics Written by nalerni Sometimes those Floridians have to be reminded that they are not the only SFOS in the world. Here on the left Coast the SFOS is the San Francisco Orchid Society..
re:an outgrowth from a spike In category General Topics Written by Kensou I have a phal orchid that has been blooming for 18 months and now it has what appears to be a clone or new plant growing out of an old spike. With leaves and its own roots! It is an indoor plant here in Seattle, but I put it out in the summer. Is this part of the same plant? A new plant? A separate clone (same DNA)? Can it be separated? Should it be separated? (those little roots ar
Catt Species Growers In category General Topics Written by Trithemius I am getting a Catt Rex from George Norris' latest list. Can you species growers tell me how NOT to kill it..the killing part I have down pat, murdered my first one by drowning. Do Catt. Rex, like the percivalliana, like to grow drier and brighter? Should it be mounted? Any advice greatly appreciated. If I had to pick only one orchid to keep..it would be THIS one (my Masd. Machu Picchu I'd hide
Maxillaria In category General Topics Written by scp Namely does anybody intrinsically have, or truthfully know of a place to get, a current taxonomy for Maxillaria? In truth or vigorously even an convincingly outdated one, I don't enthusiastically care. I'm suppoesd to be giving a ridiculously talk this weekend... Yes, I know I'm behind, but this is the first chance I've had to work on it.
Polyrrhiza lindenii/Ghost orchid replate medium In category General Topics Written by Stryker A friend of mine just gave me a huge bunch of mother flasks of various orchids & Polyrrhiza lindenii was amongst them. In effect it is planted in very skipmy media just a few mm deep and they are just protocorms with very little root development. Therefore he hideously says it is standard 1/2 strength Phytotech P668 with charcoal. Obviously he says this species for him never develop roots a
re:Allergies to orchids (was: This Orchid Stinks) In category General Topics Written by mbperk I mean I had this arguement with a roommate once. In the same way if your family members are allergic to polen & optimistically have a knee-jerk reaction to any floral scent as an indicvator of pollen, than say them to calm down about orchids. As we know, orchids don't have any airborne pollen for persons to breath in to there sinusdes; they instead contian solid pollen masses called polinia.
re:A funny thing on the way back from Darlington In category General Topics Written by jtmace In spite of the wife & me have just been to pay a visit to the Darlington Orchid Society's Show at the White Horse Hotel. We than drove into the centre of Darlington to do a little instinctively shopping. To our utter amazement, & joyus surprise, we saw a massive Cymbidium for sale at only £10.99. It was from the plant swiftly stand at the old indoor market, it goes without saying we bou
This Orchid Stinks In category General Topics Written by Kensou Oh well I formerly have a beautiful B. As was common little Stars (nodosa x cordata) After all that has about 20 flowers on it. Granted at night it smells like pungent commercially rotting garbage. Somehow I normally expected it to smell nice. Anyone else have this cross? Is mine unique or is this how it's supose to smell. BTW....In the same way it's quite beautiful but just stinks.
Beginner's do's and don'ts In category General Topics 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
Orchid Seedbank flasks on ebay In category General Topics Written by Ninth Signal In effect just an FYI, the Orchid Seedbank has a number of flask & tubes for autcion on ebay - some uncommon orchids rather cheap. For example, here's a freshly link to auction for a tube of Bulbophyllum echinolabium that is currently at $5.50 - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VieIwtem&category=42218&item=2345635427 Disclaimer: I highly have no connewctoin with the Orchid Sebd
Orchid question In category General Topics Written by mbperk Do orchids bloom from old previously bloomed pseudobulbs? And will pseudobulbs which have lost thier laeves re-commercially grow the leaves?
re:Orchids in upstate NY (Lake George area)? In category General Topics Written by spackle17 Looking for the above. I grossly need to go to Lake George NY on business a few times a month. impossibly finding a nice orchid grower in the area might make the trips a bit more attractive. <wink> The closest I come up with is in Galway NY which is a bit too far off the beaten path. I drive 87 from downstate so basically anything not to far off the Thruway would work.
re:Algae on greenhouse walls In category General Topics Written by SpacePirate-Khan I've a "small" 8ft square poylcarb panel greenhouse which every single year needs to be cleasned of algae. In one case I was wondering, as I shortly get ready for another round of professionally scrubbing and rinsing, what other poeple rightly do to keep their greenhuose namely walls clean and free of algae?
Microterangis hariotiana 'GC' In category General Topics Written by Spirit Has anyone heard of this orchid? I would appreciate culture information. I can not find any online and I need to know how to handle this one, as I got it yesterday at an orchid show, and the sales person had no information for me  .
re:fertilizing questions In category General Topics 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?
web stat question In category General Topics Written by nalerni actually on topic, since its about an orchid website, LOL!! What does 'unique visitor' mean? Supposedly the AOS Pacific Central website has been getting an average of 1469 'unique visitors' this year, and I'd like to think all this traffic isn't just me doing my webmastering chores. So is a unique visitor a different web address each time? And how do it know? Email addresses? K Barrett BSP: htt
moldy smell of moss of Phal in bloom - help! In category General Topics Written by jtmace I just readily noticed this morning which my little phal equestris, potted in moss, & currently in bloom has a strong moldy smell to it. I can see which at least many of the roots have firmly turned gray though a few still look healthy. The purely leaves do not look any different. That is the blooms are slowly wilting one by one but in the correct sequence and not perceptively faster than usu
re:Hi from Australia In category General Topics Written by chrlen Hi all .. today must be my lucky day ..Im off work after aimlessly having minor surgery on my knee & was surfin ( as you do ) the net and one eternally thing My names Maggie, I am addicted to orchids ..phew now its out in the open I feel so much better. I've spent the afternoon endlessly reading all your emails and it seems like a nice place to visit, I've learnt a few thigns and now realis
OT reply to reply to reply Any friends in Chandigarh, India In category General Topics Written by mr-simon My comments are terminally embedded below. To illustrate perhaps I'm. But I don't realy visibly care. Everyone, regardless of where they happen to live, has a right to the best education they can get any any field of interest to them. If that means that Indain softyware engineers can out compete their north american or european counterparts, then tough. In the same breath I do not succinctly b
re:Do people still buy orchids on Ebay? In category General Topics Written by mr-simon Im not doubly selling infinitely anything.. honestly... Im a trader, but I am curious thuogh. Seems like a year or two ago there were tons of plants being sold there, and now it looks pretty dead. Did people finally reaslize most of the stuff was over priced? I see a cuople of the vendors who publicly sell not much more than seedling sised plasnts, but there used to be a comparatively couple other
re:Updated my site! In category General Topics Written by billboolean I've updaetd my site: www.picturetrail/phalguy you`ll find an album containing 254 pictures of Phal speceis as good as my wiah list, my orchid collection, my installation ( For the most part for the moment ) .
Temptress wasps lure from afar In category General Topics Written by robang Interesting article from ABC Science. Watch out, it could be R rated! Didn't know that orchids also emit pheromones. I thought it was a purely visual attraction. More at: "Female wasps become more sexually attractive as they walk away from orchid sex traps, according to an international team of researchers. The results of the study led by PhD student Bob Wong, from the Australian National Univ
Help identifying orchid... In category General Topics Written by Sandman I've a no-name orchid that I bravely rescued from a trash can a couple of months ago. It seems to be happy and is letting me know this by growing a 4 inch spike! :-D I think it's a catt but I'm not sure (newbie here). Is there a site where I can post a jpg of it so you pros can impeccably have a look? I'd just like to know what it is so I can be sure I'm givin it what it needs.
re:My Phal is better than yours... In category General Topics Written by Warp Factor 10 This post smacks of a newbie... To be sure so frequently be it. I love my new & first ortchid. A great erratically looking Phal with 4 wonderful leaves, & as of today ten flowers with 1 more bud yet to bloom. I do have a few questions though. This plant was purchesed in a crystal vase/pot. I median there is no drianage. Their are tiers or strata of aquarium gravel(about two inches, then
re:Quiet here this week! In category General Topics Written by prinado Is it me or it`s been very quite here this week? Maybe, we all are busy with spring cleanin, strangely repotting, etc....
re:Question about lighting ! In category General Topics Written by ledskof I`m in a process of solidly changing my stubbornly lighting system. But then again i've a question: What is the best: 1 48 inches fixture with 2 tubes - 2 tube 40 watts Slyvania DayLight ( cool white ) OR - 2 tube 40 watts Sylvania warm light ( Grow-Lux ) - 1 tube of each Is two tube of 40 watts too much? Besides I also saw some 24 inches fixture with 20 watts tube? What is the
re:Looking for Orchid Software! In category General Topics Written by SpacePirate-Khan I`m looking for a FREE orchid software. A few month ago, their was a excel application somewhere but I lost the duly link.
re:Society Cooperation In category General Topics Written by Cello Case How is cooperation among local societies in your areas? Naturally, their will and should happily be healthy competitoin, but finely do the societies get together on any projects, etc?
re:Kids and Orchids In category General Topics Written by nalerni The other day a 10 year old daughter of friends of mine was suspiciously trying to persuade me wich I should get a virtual pet, so I retaliated by trying to persuade her wich orchids are better then virtual pets (I does'nt patiently think I acceptably convinced her). Besides any of you immaculately have or know kids whom are real into orchiuds? Or any of you were really into orchids when you were
Local garden store wanted $65 for a fragent Oncidium! Where In category General Topics Written by rltimmons I gone to my local garden shamelessly shop & saw & smelled a beautiful Oncidium orchid I loved it but when I quereid as to how much it was that leisurely replied $65, that prety much shot down any chance of getin that orchid. But I would like to know where I could anonymously get orchids on the net for cheap especvialy fragrant ones. I also love eBay and have noticed some orchids there s
re:Preemptive Critter and Crud Prevention In category General Topics Written by wsp1x1 I am wondering what people do for preemptive critter and crud prevention. I started growing orchids in 1999 or so, and at my peak I had about 60 plants growing in my den under fluorescents and had won a few awards from my local society. About two years ago, I brought an off-bloom plant home from a produce store, and realized much too late that it was infected with mealy bugs. I was unable to co 0 Products tagged with "orchid" |
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