A little rant here..... - Orchid Board

james mickelso · #1 08-19-2013, 09:37 PM

Most everyone here on Orchidboard love to help you grow the best orchids you can. Advice is freely given. But my pet peeve is few folks tell us where they live. NY? Cal? Nebraska? Florida? Antarctica? It helps to know. Thanks for listening. Now back to our regularly scheduled program.

King_of_orchid_growing:) · #2 08-19-2013, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by james mickelso

Most everyone here on Orchidboard love to help you grow the best orchids you can. Advice is freely given. But my pet peeve is few folks tell us where they live. NY? Cal? Nebraska? Florida? Antarctica? It helps to know.

Oh, have I ever tried to get it out of people in the past.

Getting this piece of info was not necessarily the easiest thing to do...

I've practically given up on getting this piece of info.

Just sayin'.

jeremyinsf · #3 08-19-2013, 10:18 PM

I agree it does really help. I think this so much, I included it in my username :-)

vjo · #4 08-19-2013, 10:21 PM

Everyone is probably afraid that we will track them down and have them arrested for cruelty to orchids!..Jean

jeremyinsf · #5 08-19-2013, 10:25 PM

Or, steal them. I've met some people who are pretty covetous about orchids!

desertanimal · #6 08-19-2013, 10:33 PM

I agree; it helps a lot to know whether their experience is likely to be your experience. I hate that I can't see that info on Tapatalk, because I mostly read the forum on my phone during the bus commute or winding down for the night lying in bed.

james mickelso · #7 08-19-2013, 10:48 PM

It makes a difference because what is done for an orchid in Minnesota is much different than in say Eastern Washington. Summers are the same but the winters are ferocious in eastern Washington. And south Florida is much different in winter than north Florida. NoCal and SoCal are much different in winter but same in summer. Humidity is so much different on one side of the Apps than the other and Texas!!!!! Sheesh! We won't go there!!! Just sayin'.

Wild Orchid · #8 08-19-2013, 11:20 PM

Humorously, perhaps, we can use this thread for some little "venting" and ask each other NICELY to help us all with some... little things.

Mine is... could some folks PLEASE and THANK YOU kindly hit the ENTER key when typing once in a while, so that it would be easier to read??

This is a good example of what I mean.
http://www.orchidboard.com/community...two-years.html

This is a good example of what I consider really HARD ON ONE'S EYES (a solid block of text.)
http://www.orchidboard.com/community...tml#post598907

Thank you!

hcastil3 · #9 08-19-2013, 11:30 PM

I'm in Utah!!!!!!!!!! lol I love this board, everyone is always so helpful.

and yes it helps narrow things down

---------- Post added at 08:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:28 PM ----------

Wild Orchid is right

-this helps a ton if you have multiple issues. i recommend doing this

-rot
-dry
-lost
-ect

you know... the little dashes makes things faster to get to the point

WhiteRabbit · #10 08-19-2013, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by desertanimal

I agree; it helps a lot to know whether their experience is likely to be your experience. I hate that I can't see that info on Tapatalk, because I mostly read the forum on my phone during the bus commute or winding down for the night lying in bed.

You can look at the user's profile in tapatalk - if they have included their location, it will be there. Press and hold on the post, choose "more", then "profile"