ORCHID PARAPHENALIA - Compiled From Orchid Board
Here is a list that I compiled from the older survey
409 cleaner
Alcohol, rubbing
Aliflor, PA, or Hydroton
All the great people on OrchidBoard! **
Bamboo skewers!
Bar rags (no paper towels..I go through them too much)
Bayer 3-1 rose&garden spray
Bleach (disenfecting)
Brother label maker
Buckets for immersion watering ,various sizes - buckets, lots of buckets
Calendar (for keeping track of the water/fertilizer regimen)
Cinnamon
Clean newspaper,
Clear plastic cover over metal cart (keeps humidity up)
Clips
Cmeter- CpH -calabrated
Compressed air (computer cleaner) for blowing water out of crowns/leaf crotches
Computer MVP (most valuable paraphernalia) with CDs or DVDs to back up files
Cork slabs
Cotton swabs
Curved dental scraper
Cuticle trimmers
Dishpans
Dishwashing liquid
Dosatron fertlizer injector
Drainers -plant, and fill them with pebbles and water
Drip trays
Epiweb (pots and cubes)
Fans - lots of them - for circulating air
Fertilizer
Glass eye dropper
Hangers
Humidifier
Humidity trays!
Hydrogen peroxide
Insecticidal soap, sprays, Fungicide sprays
KLN, Super Thrive, Pro Tech
Library of orchid books (some pretty expensive and pretty specialized)
Lights for growing
light meter with readout from 50-5000 footcandles
Listerine, brown
Magnifying glass (usually in tandem with the tweezers)
Measuring tape, spoons, cups
Metal carts, with shelves
Meters TDS and light meter -calibrated
Mounting pieces
Name tags / marker/ #2 pencil
Neem oil, or mineral oil
Note paper and pen or pencil
Orchidwiz software
Orthene (yuck! I keep it triple containered and stored in hubby's shed )
Paper punch (heavy duty) to punch holes in top of plastic pots to attach name tags with twist tie
Paper towels to get water out of crowns and clean up
Perlite
Physan 20
Plastic food storage containers used for soaking plants
Plastic bags -sturdy clear ones for tenting, green plastic to cover ground so I don’t make such a mess
Plastic pot trays (EVERYWHERE...)
Pots - clay, mesh, plastic, for S/H, wood baskets
Potting mixes, clay aggregate, spag, CHC. Bark, Shredded tree fern, cocoa fiber, charcoal, any other used
Pot hangers
Propane lighter to steriize tools
Q-Tips for getting water out of leaves
Rainwater (kept in jugs in the orchid room...it's a precious commodity!)
Razor blades(only use once)
RO units
Rubbermaid storage containers
S-hooks
Scissors/clippers
Sham-Wow" for soaking up drippage and moisture in the fans of Phals and Paphs. - -
Sharp knife, and a curved knife
Snippers in various sizes
Soft toothbrush
Sphag moss, long, or Chilean
Spray bottles (lots of those) Spritzer
Sprayers, for insecticide
Sponges and squeegee to clean the mess when I water.
Stakes, bamboo, wood, wire
STRAW so I didnt get a face full when i tried to blow water out of my phals crown.
Styro packing peanuts
Swiss-Army Knife (useful for any pruning, or hacking...)
Syringe for measuring liquid ferts
Tape, of various kinds
Thermometer, Hygrometer - or combination unit
Thiomyl
Tool box (hammer, pliers, screw driver,wire cutters, tweezers, needle nose pliers)
Toothbrush - dip in soapy water and you can gently scrub away scale and give YOU a great smile. Turkey Baster (I'll let you figure out what that's for )
Twist ties and cable ties
Wire -14 and 16 gauge - stripped #12 copper wire, roll of, a good pair of pliers. To make plant clips, hangers
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