Migrant13
Mature growth?
I just signed up to the forum and am already enjoying the posts....especially the great pic's. I live in the Boston suburbs and grow on windowsills and under lights. I basically summer my plants outside and then haul them back in when frost hits in the fall. I grow a variety but lately find myself gravitating towards the paphs. I have learned a ton already from this forum and hope to be able to contribute something back over time. Lots blooming now for me and I will post some pics soon. Have a perhaps typical orchid obsession story from last weekend. We had a 2-3ft snowstorm last weekend up here that started on Friday afternoon and really hit hard Friday nite/Sat. morning. My wife and I decided on Friday we would head north into Nashua, NH for an orchid show. Of course we got a late start and arrived around 2pm after a slow drive through moderate snow. On the way up, we heard that Massachusetts was closing their roads at 4pm. No big deal of course except that the orchid show was not crowded, there were tons of great plants to soak in and photograph and plenty of our favorite vendors with whom we had the luxury of being able to chat up for advice since they weren't too busy. Trying to ignore the clock we kept chatting and picked a few a plants like a paph liemianum and a cymbidium sinense from Piping Rock and a few cool epi species from Andy's including Epidendrum corifolium and Epi. quisayanum. Long story short we left for home at 4pm in a now driving snowstorm and crawled behind a squadron of snow plows before arriving well after the curfew. Kinda felt like we were playing hooky from school! My only regret was we did not have enough time to get back over the weekend and really soak it all in....too busy digging out.
!!! Jean
