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Hello Marco, I’ve grown a few peppers in pots at work in Landenberg pa which is very near Longwood gardens. They love standard potting soil amended with whichever goodies you like to add, in black pots in full sun. If you don’t give them tons of fertilizer and start and keep them in smaller pots...

Sad to no longer have them in your yard :(

It was a while ago, I’m not sure I remember which type of tree fern he had. I think I have the soft fiber

Al of Al’s orchid exchange formerly of leesburg va had a colony growing on a very big slab of tree fern. I have an experiment I’m trying but so far it doesn’t want to go from the gap between pieces of fern onto fern itself. Maybe if I kept moister somehow (or I have the wrong type of fern…)

I’m on work schedule this weekend

Vibrant!

One thing I need to point out about his orchid culture, how well many of his orchids grew: there was always very vigorous air movement throughout the whole greenhouse area, and looking around a few times, just about everything looked very healthy

Their interior business (blooming orchids at businesses) and orchid greenhouses are/were on their property. Mike announced on his fbook page Jan 4th that they were retiring. But no responses about details unfortunately

About calcium and water solubility etc as previously… in glacial historical settings the ground water moves through crushed glacial till, which definitely releases into the groundwater and affects the soil it’s in, and where the streams come out. Now that’s not anything like solid limestone non...

Just to add a slightly different perspective and observation about underlying soil strata and orchids/plants, in New England and other areas, (I’m most familiar with New York State ) often many native orchids including slippers will grow in calcareous regions. Some of the zones are very wet, and...

When we used citric acid to gently lower the pH in stock solution at the first annual/perennial nursery I worked at, that fertilizer line got lined with icky crud that would break free and clog the mist heads :b

If you use coconut husk, likely enough in that. Usually problem is too much

Absolutely! :D … this tiny tree was free (and still has roots)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Juniper volunteer under bench