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03-09-2021, 10:37 PM
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What actual temperatures do the “orchid ranges” correlate to?
I am having a bit of trouble finding a source for the temperatures that correspond to: cool, intermediate cool, intermediate, intermediate warm, and warm
Are they generally subjective to the author or is there a reference to the actual F or C temperatures?
I ask because I want to find some plants that fit certain conditions and it is a crap shoot sometimes
While I’m asking, anyone know of any nice minis that like 74* and 94% humidity?
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03-09-2021, 11:13 PM
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03-09-2021, 11:27 PM
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Just a “gut feel” on my part:
While the range can be a bit flexible for each category, the low ends tend to be the more important aspect.
If you get access to the Bakers info, it contains observed conditions data.
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03-10-2021, 12:20 AM
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Many of the Baker temperatures are calculated, not observed.
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03-10-2021, 04:30 AM
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At IOSPE, first page, you have that correlation considering night temps (as Ray mentioned, about min. temps).
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Meteo data at my city here.
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03-10-2021, 05:21 AM
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I think that we could create our own map - on OrchidBoard that is - such as orchids of a certain name - grex, or species etc ....... in a particular list - could be satisfactorily grown between approximately temperature X and Y ----- give and take a bit. Same with lighting level etc .... and humidity. A good point brought up by DC though. Low, medium, high can have some fuzzy areas hehehe. As in the boundaries.
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03-10-2021, 08:38 AM
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Thanks all
I have to look at a few places and then I’ll just use the average lol
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03-10-2021, 10:15 AM
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I often pay attention only to what I want to see lol.
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03-10-2021, 12:07 PM
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I use those "hints" as a broad guess, taking context into account. I can suss out fairly decent info from Andy's designations because I know what his growing conditions are. When I get plants from other sources, if they say "cool" I ask "how cool?" to try to find out out what conditions they have. And since I'm mostly into species, I do also look at the elevation and other geographical data, using the Baker sheets as a shortcut. I'm mostly concerned with what is the minimum low, since I take all the info and turn it into a binary decision - back yard or greenhouse. But "cool" does have some subtleties too ... with cool nights, many of not most can tolerate warm days.
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