Swimming in plants

[vickyth]

Hi, my name is Vicky and I'm and orchidoholic.

Or something close to one, at any rate. I've just come to the realisation that my orchid collection may be in danger of filling my windows to the point of blocking out the sun to all inhabitants of this here domicile. So far my marriage is intact. Luckily I married a man who thinks grow lights in the bedroom are romantic.

My roster at present includes:
Beallara Capitola Sunrise 'Pacific Starlite'
Beallara Patricia McCully 'Pacific Matriarch'
Beallara Tropic Splendor 'Golden Gate' AM/AOS
Brassia rex
Brassia Shooting Star X Longissima
Brassolaeliocattleya Wanda's Fire
Brassolaeliocattleya Pokai Tangerine X Chocolate Sun
Cattleya Orange Tang X Daffodil X Richard Mueller
Cattleya Varut Roongkamul X Netrasiri Beauty
Cookara Bill
Cymbidium Ensifolium v. Tie Gu Su Xin
Cymbidium Dorothy Stockstill 'Forgotten Fruit' AM/AOS
Cymbidium (La Costa Fantasy x Daily Planet) 'Little John'
Cymbidium Pink Champagne 'Old Vienna' HCC/AOS
Dendrobium Mini Snowflake (aberrans x johnsoniae)pad
Dendrobium Compactum X Thai Jeng
Dendrobium Blushing
Dendrobum kingianum
Dendrobium nobile Segoya Queen
Dendrobium nobile Spring Dream
Dendrobium Nobile Star Saphire
Dendrobium Nobile Bonanza Okayama
Dendrobium Emma White
Dendrobium Nobile Oriental Carnival
Dendrobium Pattaya Red
Dendrobium Sonia Earsakul
Dendrobium Hercoglossum
Dendrobium Thongchai Gold
Dendrobium Queen of the Southeast X
Encyclia tampensis (typical color form)
Laeliocattleya Blazing Treat
Leptotes unicolor
Miltassia Shelob 'Tolkien' AM/AOS
Oncidium Twinkle 'Fragrance Fantasy'
Oncidium Sharry Baby 'Sweet Fragrance' AM/AOS
Oncidium Sweet Ears 'Big Shot'
Oncidium Ruffles 'Scent of a Woman'
Oncidium Twinkle 'Red'
Paphiopedilum Louise Jernigan
Paphiopedilum Oberhausens Diament x philippinense v. album
Paphiopedilum Macabre x Supersuk 'Knerr' HCC/AOS
Paphiopedilum Temptation
Paphiopedilum Druid Spring
Paphiopedilum Alma Gevaert 'Hager' x Luna Moth 'Smart'
Paphiopedilum fairrieanum
Paphiopedilum Pinocchio
Paphiopedilum Armeni White
Sanderara Black Star 'Pacific Red Star' HCC/AOS
Sophrolaeliocattleya Mae Hawkins x Golden Wax x Brassolaeliocattleya Chocolate Sun
Stanhopea wardii
Vuylstekeara Michelle Rehfield 'Pacific Passion'
Zygopetalum Heysen Trail
Zygopetalum Adelaide Charmer X Adelaide Meadows
Zygopetalum Tatachilla
Zygopetalum Dinkum Aussie

On order are:
Phragmipedium Eric Young
Aerangis citrata
Aerangis mooreana
Dendrobium victoria reginae

Clearly I need help. And shelving. Lots of shelving.

Any tips for supplemental lighting the dendrobium nobiles? They're so tall they're unwieldy.

Cheers!
Vicky
(in Torbay, Newfoundland, Canada)
Zone 5b

[Orchidophile]

Hello Vicky, glad you could join us here!. You have a few more orchids than I do but I'm only growing under lights, I would have a ton more if I had some bright windows. I would think T5 florescent light would be bright enough for the nobile types but I have never used them nor have I grown the nobiles because of their unwieldy-ness, there are plenty of people here that grow under them though so they should have a better answer.

[(..._...)]

Hi!!
I am pleased to see that you have two of the orchids that I just ordered!!!
-Cymbidium Pink Champagne 'Old Vienna' HCC/AOS
-Sanderara Black Star 'Pacific Red Star' HCC/AOS

(did you order them from Cloud's orchids btw?)
anyways, this is my first cym, so I would love to know how you grow that one, and how you get yours to bloom!
also, how do you like the sanderara?

Thanks so much and welcome!!

[gmdiaz]

Hello & Welcome!

Sooo glad you found the place!

I am so loving your BIG HONKIN' orchid list!

Love it!!!

[Royal]

Yeah, that is a great list! Welcome!

[Lorraine]

Hi Vickie,

You will fit right in here with all the rest of us orchidaholics. Great list I grow all my chids outside so I'm no help there but we have many members who grow inside. Psst...you might start looking for a bigger home so you can have a couple rooms for all your new chids

[Chubidubi]

and
I am sooo looking forward to seeing your orchid pics
Dont' worry about our addiction 'cause it's good...It's very gooooood

[bellini girl]

Wow, what a list. Welcome to OB and you're not alone. Each and everyone of us have been diagnosed

Lecent

[CodiMN]

Originally Posted by bellini girl

Wow, what a list. Welcome to OB and you're not alone. Each and everyone of us have been diagnosed

Lecent

I'm glad there's no cure!

Welcome to the OB! Since I live in MN, I grow everything inside...short growing season.
We have a shelf downstairs that we fitted with some shop light ballasts and then put some grow lights in there for plants that can deal with lower light levels (phals and then houseplants). Everything else is in my home-made orchidarium that has brighter intensity lights in different places...some incandescent and others compact florescent (all on timers and I gradually increase "daylight" as spring/summer approaches).
I do have a nobile-type that is a no-id that I grow pretty close to the lights and it grows very happily there. I just try to move my 'chids around until they respond happily. :
Love your list tho! Super jealous! Sounds like you may just have to add a greenhouse! Darn!

[gmdiaz]

I, unlike you people, am not addicted. I can quit anytime I want to. I just don't want to.

I think orchids just take the "edge" off (so called) "real" life.