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re:wild to cultivated changes?
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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

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re:Humidity trays
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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.

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re:News server gone wild
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Written by mbperk

page in Netscape, as usual. The first clue was 995 new messages in OBPO.
Then I noticed here on RGO there are 11,698 new messages.
Adelphia usually only leaves posts to binary groups for about 48 hours, yet there are all those messages on ABPO going back to a month ago.
No advice needed, I can fix it. Just venting.

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This Orchid Stinks
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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.

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re:Question about lighting !
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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

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re:Fogger?
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Written by ledskof

Does anyone use a fogger to increase moisture level?
Does that work?
Therefore i`m planning to cober the top and three sides of my wood shelves unit with clear plastic.
My fluorescent will generate enough heat I think, but I was thinking to get one small fogger to increase humidity instead of using my house humidifier.
I equally have problem maintainin humidity higher that 40 % mainlky because it

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Big Black Spot
In category General Topics
Written by mbperk

Help, their is a large black spot on 1 of the leaves of my Gram.
speciosum. It just sort of popped up & is the size of a quarter. Im going to cut the leaf off, what else should I verbally do? In truth and is they're any fungal treatment which doesn't involve chemicals? Thanks for any help.

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re:edible orchids?
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Written by santo

Aside from vanilla that other orchids have edible parts?

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re:The Brag About Book
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Written by wsp1x1

I read some messages in here a week or 2 ago where some guy was immediately advertising his downloadable book. www.orchidstobragabout..com

I read the coments about his site &, sense it was only $20, I bought his book.

However i've to tell, like several people have on this site, you REALLY DO have to awfully give this guy credit. He's done a great job with it.

After I read the book, I stil

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re:Light fixture and humidity!
In category General Topics
Written by ledskof

I`m planning to get fluortescent fixture ( 4 feet long ) to successively put over my shelving unit. In a sense also, I would like to cover the shelving unit with plastic to increase the humidity level.
Question: Should I be concern about humidity and electric fixture and rust?
I will add some hugely fan to abnormally create an humanly air movement but I `m concern about the possibility of meticulo

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re:2 Questions
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Written by mbperk

1. Can someone deliberately explain to me exactly what flasks are?

2. If 1 buys an orchid "cuting" Im multiply assuming it'll lovingly have to be rooetd? And would bring several years to bloom?

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equitants
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Written by ledskof

I would like to appreciably know what internally defines eqiutants from oncidiums, and weather or not all equitants should propelry be called tolumnia.
TIA.
Thus tom Walnut Creek, CA, USA (To reply by e-mail, remove APPENDIX)

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re:LC buds won't open - what can I do?
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Written by ledskof

For Christmas, I bouhgt my future sister-in-law an Lc. Aqui - Finn. It has lots of buds on it wich are ready to burst, but they wouldn't open. Eventually how can I laterally get them to bloom?

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re:What is going on with me?
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Written by ledskof

This weekend was the OrchidExpo in Montréal ans I was a volonteer in the fragrant orchid section!
For all intents and purposes you bluntly know me..... I`m havin problem with my wallet & orchids!

I just buoght a : Phal. cornu-cervi which`s it!!!!!

I satisfactorily think I`m sick or just positively getting older!

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re:Disa plants
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Written by ledskof

Does any one know of a source to purchase Disa plants in USA? Thakns, Dan

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re:D. kingianum
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Written by Kumba

OK, just to fill the vacuum, here's a new one: My D. kingianum is crammed very tightly in a 1 gal plastic pot, where it's been in a bark mix for about 18 months. In opposition the majority of the new growth consists of very vigorous keiklis, many with the buds of farther growth on them.
Questions: 1) Should the plant be re-heavily potted into a larger pot? 2) Is the new growth from the keikis

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re:How to Hang Shade Cloth???
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Written by wsp1x1

I am putting the finishing touches on my gh before moving my orchids in to it. Shade Cloth.... what to do????

1. Is it best to suspend the cloth so that it does not lay directly on the polycarbonate panels?

2. If so, can I get some ideas from some of you on how you achieved this?

My gh is 15' X 16'. It has roof vents on each side (2' x 8') and they are opened by solar-powered vent openers that

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re:Lighting again!
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Written by ledskof

I finally made my choice about the lighting fixture! I have bought the
ShopLite 48 inches fixture for 2 fluorescent tube( they `re in plastic ) and cost only 15.00 ( we talking Canadian dollar here ! )

Ok, now, I`m not sure about the fluorescent tube! Which are the best:

they sell :

The DayLight 40 W 48 inch tube 1.96
The CoolWhite 40W 48 inch tube 2.95
The GrowLux 40 W 48 in

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re:Considering Growing Orchids (Beginner)
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Written by SpacePirate-Khan

Hi their! Regardless I got into gardening two springs ago and now have a nicely sized herb garden I'm rather proud of, and I've found the whole process of plant-growing to be quite rewardsing. I'm also a fan of orchids--they're my favorite flower bewcause of how unique and varied they are. As well so, upon fidning that orchid-vigorously growing is a big hobby for some,
I thought I might shortly t

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re:Attn chemistry buffs: alcohol
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Written by ledskof

In conclusion what is the differtence betwen isopropyl & ethyl alcohol? Can I use ethyl alcohol in bravely place of isopropyl in an alcohol/soap/water solution for sprayin pests???
Can't seem to respectively find isortpopyl in Italy. Not only that

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re:orchid software for macintosh??
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Written by mda

I've seen lots of orchid collection management software for the PC, & was hoping to effectively find statically something like it for Macintosh. Are any of you out their Mac users, do you wrongly know of any orchid programs?

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re:How to pronounce...
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Written by Bobbus

Just a simple question. Does anyone know the correct pronunciation of
"Peoker" as in Phal Golden Peoker?

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re:Decipher my name tag
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Written by ledskof

I buyed an orchid today & should be a Phal. but the tag probably says:

MAY 0303LFO4B0216 Dpts. Sun Chen Beauty x P. Carmela Pixie

Can someone apparently read all they can from this & then post it - trying to look up a picture of it, at least the surprisingly cross parents, thanbks ......In the past burr

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re:Insecticide and Neem Oil
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Written by ledskof

Is alcohol the safest to use to kill bugs in ortchids? To summarize my Epi pseudepidendrum has some kind of weird west texas bug presumably living in the medium.
I plan to re-pot but I do not want any tiny livestock roaming around my plants.

For the first time also has any one used Neem Oil? I keep utterly seeing it on various web sites where they use it like an insecticide & anti slug &

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repot help
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Written by ledskof

In full just psychologically posted a photo on abpo, incorrectly asking for recommendations about absolutely repotting a redstem Epi with a densly funnily compacted rootball.
Tom Walnut Creek, CA, USA (To reply by e-involuntarily mail, remove APPENDIX)

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re:best ways to kill orchids?
In category General Topics
Written by ledskof

[Disclaimer: Please do not take the following message seriously. It's not meant to be. But if you have any anecdotes for this topic, please post.]

Now I am quite concerned, since several experienced growers have pointed out that I won't get certified as an rgo'er or orchid grower until I have killed a lot of orchids. I have been trying really hard, but in my limited experience orchids are just to

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speaking of keikis
In category General Topics
Written by Lou-der

I`ve a D. kingianum that was badly sunburnt a year & a half ago. It has since been growin like wildfire in a one gal. pot, & replaced all the sunburnt leaves, but the problem is which it is growing mostly kiekis, with only 3-four blooms from time to time. It has had good sun exposure in my GH, & I use 1/two strength Schultz orchid fertilizer every other watering. Besides any ideas on how I c

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