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  1. D-novice

    5 Phrags, $45 + shipping, SF Bay Area

    Please read all info below. Five phrags, bare root. Photos available if you are sincerely interested in purchasing. 1. Phrag richteri, many many growths, bloomed summer '17. ($40) 2. Phrag Piping Rock, one healthy growth. Had more growths but got some rot, treated with physan drench...
  2. D-novice

    Ebay is rich with possibility

    Hey just because you or I can't bloom that - hahahahahahaha :rollhappy:
  3. D-novice

    Growing in water, Phrag types

    I grow them indoors ~6 months a year, sitting in a windowsill; sitting in ~2" of water that is sometimes standing and sometimes circulated with a small pump; I spray them occasionally; and I run a humidifier in the room. If I had to guess what causes rot, occasionally, in a couple of the...
  4. D-novice

    Growing in water, Phrag types

    oh circulation. I have one pump. I move it between the two trays every couple days, when I think of it. Probably no harm in getting another one of those cheap little pumps!
  5. D-novice

    Growing in water, Phrag types

    OK, thanks. Correction - it's a little over two inches of water when the trays are full, after evaporation they get closer to 1.5". By and large I'm using rainwater, though in summer it's filtered tapwater, PPM ~125. In Northern California, our susceptibility to drought, R/O isn't an option, and...
  6. D-novice

    Growing in water, Phrag types

    By and large they are doing OK. Maybe I should avoid species. Too bad because I just spent $50 on a caudatum in bud. Urgandiae, Giganteum, Inca Embers, richteri, Geralda, and Franz Glanz have all bloomed, some of them more than once (in 2.5 years).
  7. D-novice

    Growing in water, Phrag types

    At my local orchid society yesterday, I purchased two Phrags from the speaker, a regional expert (more in Paphs than in Phrags) - Jason Fischer and Caudatum. He said Jason Fischer and other Besseae types do fine in my conditions, sitting in 3" of water (a humidity tray with the grate...
  8. D-novice

    7 parvi paph hybrids + 1 micranthum for sale

    (See price at bottom of listing). Plants are in SF Bay Area. I'm selling these because: a) I want to make space for oncidium alliance plants, which I'm more interested in now; b) 3 of these now have blasted their buds for me, and when it happened this week I threw up my hands [not interested...
  9. D-novice

    Phrag caudatum

    Get rooting hormone, apply that, give it the right conditions (potting media, humidity, water to roots) and then WAIT. It will root. Plants want to grow, they're genetically programmed to do so under the correct conditions. Patience is the orchidist's greatest ally, and the one of the hardest...
  10. D-novice

    Phrag Grande

    I bought this in bloom a little over a year ago, first reblooming. The dorsal sepal is doing a crazy swoop to the side thing, as if the lip is an attention-hungry diva. And the bottom sepals seem to have a kind of magnetic attraction to each other! Sadly, I knocked off the...
  11. D-novice

    anguloi x besseae = Teson's Gothic Cathedral

    Great Eliseo! And great photos, too. What camera/lens are you using?
  12. D-novice

    All phrags that I have in bloom.

    Thanks! I second that. So impressive - great work.
  13. D-novice

    Fumi's Delight - in sheath, in holding pattern?

    phrags v. paphs Yeah, as you know I have phrags too. And though I have many in bloom at the moment, they too drive me crazy. Lots of little rotty places on them at the moment, but then I grown them in 3" of water and mist them all the time, and they live outdoors in cool Northern California...
  14. D-novice

    Not Good..probably happening everywhere

    We are unsustainable. And "we" is the current dominant biome with humans at the peak and base of the pyramid. Mother Nature is winding this little experiment down.
  15. D-novice

    Fumi's Delight - in sheath, in holding pattern?

    Hi, my Fumi's Delight, a two growth plant, developed a sheath (that may be a Catt. word, but it's a better description than "in bud") a couple months ago and I don't really see it advancing. It seems not to have grown or developed much at all. This same thing happened to my micranthum, I...
  16. D-novice

    From Orchids Limited

    Sam Tsui = Orchid Inn in Illinois Orchids Limited is in Minnesota. Neither of them is giving their plants away! But Sam is better know in the slipper world, I'd guess.
  17. D-novice

    Phrag. richteri

    Richteri Tacking on to this old thread. My photos aren't as nice but I'm very happy this bloomed. Only my third reblooming of a phrag. I didn't wait five years but I did wait a year and a half on a multi-growth plant...PLUS the plant I received, with all those growths, had 95% dead roots, and...
  18. D-novice

    Phrag Urgandiae

    I suppose I should measure the height of the spike, from the base of the plant.
  19. D-novice

    Phrag Urgandiae

    Six months of Urgandiae It's leaning right over a Paph. Berenice that just happens to have a nearly identical color palate. Pretty cool!
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