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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Juniper volunteer under bench

It’s been two years since I bit the bullet and bought a flask of kovachii from Chuck Acker. There was govt stimulus money burning a hole in my pocket and was bored with quarantine life so said ‘why not?’ :) Here’s link to my initial compotting thread here...

My native orchid hunting friend Ken Hull passed away last fall. For those of you who knew him, his Celebration of Life gathering will be at 1pm on April 15th in binghamton ny. It will be private, but all friends are welcome, I just need a number of definitely interested friends to pass along to...

I don’t have lots of orchids, and this one is very tough and keeps going! I bought it awhile ago from Orchids For You which I’ve heard recently that the owner passed away :( . He had a very nice shop with good plants, and was always friendly and helpful with customers This has a nice roselike...

Peter Zale of Longwood Gardens is in Viet Nam on a conservation minded trip checking out Paph helenae in situ. He has videos and info

A faithful flowerer :) Nice fragrance too

There is some question about what’s the right name for this orchid? It was sold as Brassavola nodosa ‘Mas Mejor’ AM/AOS. Many plants sold as nodosa have pencil-like cylindrical leaves. There are pictures of orchids with the name nodosa ‘mas mejor’ on the internet and I’ve seen the same name used...

Last year about this time I went to littlebrook orchids in Lancaster pa after work. I had the bug to find some orchids that would flower easily and wanted to pick up one of the phal lindenii he had. He had in the front peak of one of his greenhouses, a huge b nodosa in full flower! I found some...

Early this year I got the bug to try one of Chuck Acker’s p kovachii flasks. I looked up a number of places online including emailing LittleFrog rob about how he has started his and took the plunge. When the weather cleared in early March, I received the plants they arrived March 4th...

… at least I think that’s what the remains of the tag read. I’ve had this plant since Rices Orchids was open, and it’s still alive. And more recently since I’ve had phrags in an ebb/flood trough it has grown in size and has a bud! It’s in a 4” pot

Here are the videos I took at the kentuckiense site on my birthday may 24th. One video is too large; even split in half it won’t process. I’ll have to split it some more At the moment, the files are still uploading and may be for awhile. I’ll check later to see if they finished

This is also a Piping Rock plant (a division) and it’s first flowering for me. There was some scale on some plants that I treated through ebb and flood, but this one didn’t seem to take up the chemical. There’s live baddies I’ve scraped from the leaves and the buds had some damage. But it has...

This is a Piping Rock plant, in the group that Clark parted with a few years ago. This is its first flowering since I’ve had it. It did have two blooms open at the same time; the picture below of detached flower resting on an amaryllis leaf is the first flower. It has more buds on the way. I’ve...

The second Don Wimber sibling has its first flower open, while the first one I posted earlier has finally opened its second flower. These are siblings from a flask purchased by Clark, from chuck acker. The second plants flower is a lot larger and darker than the first plant first pic...

... ever, from Chuck Acker. Kovachii ‘Peruvian dream’ x ‘Peruvian love’. I usually obey the self guideline to not purchase any plant or animal over $60, but I’ve seen the quality of chucks breeding and plants, so did lots of research and bit the bullet. The seedlings were fantastic quality 👍👍...

.... squash! Purchased last fall commuting home from work. Last week finally roasted it, and yesterday made chicken apple squash soup and cream cheese squash pie 👍👍

I was at Littlebrook Orchids in Lancaster pa last month, and saw a huge specimen brassavola nodosa in bloom and was inspired to purchase one in bud. They had compact ones and ‘big’ ones and though I usually liked compact versions, I bought the larger because some of them were in tiny bud. There...

Hello all, not exactly an orchid culture question but a beneficial bacteria culture question :) . I have a little bit of inocucor left, it doesn’t smell bad, smells normal. I read somewhere a little while ago where someone was explaining how to ‘grow’ more of your beneficials with a certain...

And Merry Christmas! This plant came in a group from Clark G when he downside some plants. There was a group of these sibling seedlings, and I shared a number with co-workers, kept 2 or 3. I’d love to cross it with some things but being 3N it’s the end of the road in that respect

I think this is flower number 8! And there’s still another bud coming