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How are you able to buy orchids? Catasetums in the US usually come from only one place, Sunset Valley Orchids. I think they will ship overseas. I bet getting orchids would be even more expensive for you, all those certificates, and fees. I think if I did not have a steady supply of orchids with...

I am replacing perlite with pumice for Bonsai. I find the quality of perlite is going down and the fact it is dangerous for the lungs when in a dry state as reason enough to look for something else to open up the mix with.

I do not have any pop-ups. I use Monzilla and put on their ad blockers they offer. No ads.

Have you contacted Sunset Valley orchids. Fred answers his emails.

My Catasetum Saccatum orchid in bloom for the first time another spike is coming. Grows in filtered sun under a large oak tree for most of the year on a cork mount. The rest of the year it is inside under grow lights when in bloom or outside in a polytunnel greenhouse with a heater. I also own a...

Here is the Incurvum Catasetum. You can see the difference.

Growing location, is West Texas. My Catasetum Saccatum orchid is in bloom for the first time, another spike is coming. Grows in filtered sun under a large oak tree for most of the year on a cork mount. The rest of the year it is inside under grow lights when in bloom or outside in a polytunnel...

I am sorry to hear about your plant. I use to buy from Seattle Orchid, however they have gone down hill. If you look online they have a two star rating now. At one point they suddenly raised the shipping into the twenties this was before our national shipping went up. I wrote to them why the...

I remember as a young child living in a cheap rental heated by oil brought by a big truck. The soot would collect on the walls inside the home. I never forgot that soot on the walls to this day.

The lights PeteM uses. Are listed here. 6 lights total, almost all on light rail Gualala Robotics / LightRail movers: - 5 LED grow lights - 2 PARFACTWORKS RA2000 w Full Spectrum LED Grow Light Growth Lighting Bulb - 2 1800 Watt X6 Cob Led Grow Light Full Spectrum Led Plant Light with Daisy...

For reference. Here is a picture of PeteM's grow basement. Pretty impressive. You still running the HPS unit in the middle? We got our first 500.00 power bill this month. Ouch. Grow room looks great.

Looks like you are growing in a basement. How much light does this plant get? What lights are you using?

Hello. I have grown orchids since the 1980s. I currently grow in West Texas. Orchids in my collection are Phragmipediums, Catesetums, Cattleya, onicidiums, cymbidiums, vanda, . I stay with orchids that can grow warm hot. We have many days here that average 101 degrees by the late afternoon...