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I'm wondering if anyone has any of these little guys? I have made an outcross and a selfing with my three plants (two from Woodstream and the third from another source that I can't recall). The best ones of my three, and of the few pictures I've seen, are utterly delightful, to me, and the poor...

Hi, folks! We are going to have open hours every weekend when there isn't a local show. We welcome visits by appointment already, but now we will be open on Saturday and Sunday from 11AM to 3PM. That should be read liberally and please know that you can always contact us to stretch those...

Looking for one - anyone have a division for sale of a plant whose bloom has been photographed? That's asking a lot, perhaps, but any leads on where I can get one would be appreciated!

August 2 & 3, 2014 New, earlier date! This show has been held in September in the past. Saturday & Sunday 10 AM - 5 PM SF County Fair Building - Hall of Flowers - Golden Gate Park at 9th Ave & Lincoln Way, San Francisco. The Tiny Jungle (Paphs and more), Andy's Orchids, Austin...

I'm delighted to announce that my orchid business, The Tiny Jungle, will have a vendor booth at the San Francisco Pacific Orchid Exposition! The Tiny Jungle has a Facebook Page, too, where I post pics of plants in bloom and commentary on the life of The Tiny Jungle. I plan to fill a niche...

Hi, all! I'm going to give a brief overview of the current state of Paph hybridization for a local orchid society here and would enjoy input from as many of you as possible on what your top few trends would be. Quote specific hybrids, breeders, etc. This should be fun!

Is this forum mostly non-West Coasters? I've been busy lately, but I haven't noticed any mention of the upcoming Paph Guild meeting in Santa Barbara. Is anyone besides me going?

I'm going crazy hand-writing all the tags for seedlings out of flasks. I'm not at the level to buy a thermal printing system. What's in between? Anyone doing anything like labels to put on the tags? Or some other system?

I just wrote my first check yesterday for the greenhouse I'm leasing in Daly City, CA, ten minutes drive down the freeway from my home in San Francisco! It's been a loooooooooong process getting into it, since the owner first needed to get a different tenant to move out, then needed to do...

I would love to have some more discussion re mini complex breeding trends. I know several folks are working on this, and I'm pretty new to thinking about it, but would really like to know where the sticking points (wide petals? not recurved dorsals?) are and how people are thinking of getting...

I'm driving from San Francisco to the Olympic Peninsula and back in a couple weeks. Would love some suggestions on people to try to visit or nurseries/greenhouses that specialize in slippers. Any good ideas?

I just got home from talking with the owner of the nursery where I board some of my non-paph orchids. He's going to make space for me to have a bench about 50' x 7' in one of his greenhouses! It's all set up with all the equipment and a potting bench and all! It's an old wood and fiberglass...

I'm going to continue my "New Flasklings" discussion here, since I have culture questions and will post some images shortly.

I've just gotten into flasks lately and it's addictive! I visited Dean Hung last weekend and picked up my ordered mastersianum flask and plant ( three growths, bareroot!) then went on to buy a full flask's worth of niveum that had been planted out as one solid clump and another flask of...

I want real critique, since I truly don't know much about looking at lowii from a judging perspective. I've tried to mute the colors in the original image to be fairly accurate, though the plant is now out of bloom, so it's from memory. I bought this plant in a nursery that does not...

I bought this at a local farmers' market. I would love to finally know what it is - a mongrel, a Pinocchio, a .... Its leaves are plain, it's a vigorous, large plant, and it never stops blooming on two spikes.

Hi, everyone! I'm looking casually for greenhouse space in the immediate Bay Area. Anyone have suggestions?

I'm dipping in again: sorry to be so seldom heard! I've been too preoccupied lately by other life matters (work? trying to sort out how my flat will accommodate 250 plus orchids and the paraphernalia? holidays? nah! none of that...). I do want you to know that I frequently come to the site...

Well, no time better for this: I'm on a brief vacation and there is really nothing I want to do more than mix potting medium, tinker with new lights, fans, watering systems, try to keep the kitchen table potting bench and the kitchen table bloom display areas separate... So here I am! I've...