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DavidH
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Greetings from warm and sunny Tucson...109 F today!
I grow paphs and phrags, with a couple of catts and vandas. I've got a small greenhouse with about 250 plants and am still trying to figure out how to shove more stuff in there. My recent idea is to cut off the bottom shelves, add a pipe roller, and pull them out into the middle aisle when I'm not in the greenhouse to add another 24 sq ft of surface (bottom shelves are too heavily shaded from all the plants above).
My focus is mainly on species with a few primary crosses and, most recently, a few complex's added to the equation. I'm trying to focus on growing micranthums and armeniacums for my own personal expertise and have about 30-50 plants of each (I've lost a few recently).
The best piece of advice I've received about growing orchids is this: "Plants die, get over it!"
That piece of advice actually makes it easier to swallow the pain/disappointment when you buy a flask for $100, deflask the seedlings, and lose all of them overnight to a bacterial/fungal infection. Especially when it happens to 3 of them at once.
I grow paphs and phrags, with a couple of catts and vandas. I've got a small greenhouse with about 250 plants and am still trying to figure out how to shove more stuff in there. My recent idea is to cut off the bottom shelves, add a pipe roller, and pull them out into the middle aisle when I'm not in the greenhouse to add another 24 sq ft of surface (bottom shelves are too heavily shaded from all the plants above).
My focus is mainly on species with a few primary crosses and, most recently, a few complex's added to the equation. I'm trying to focus on growing micranthums and armeniacums for my own personal expertise and have about 30-50 plants of each (I've lost a few recently).
The best piece of advice I've received about growing orchids is this: "Plants die, get over it!"
That piece of advice actually makes it easier to swallow the pain/disappointment when you buy a flask for $100, deflask the seedlings, and lose all of them overnight to a bacterial/fungal infection. Especially when it happens to 3 of them at once.