Anybody else been bitten by the orchid bug?

[kindrag23]

Okay I am not sure how exactly this has happened...In the past month I have ordered or received many orchids and more are coming.

I have just received:

Cymbidium Mighty Remos
Cymbidium Wintergreen (hybrid)
Monster Phal White Dianna
Gorgeous NOID phal.
2.5 Dendrobium Nobile *to my kids*

On their way

Vanda Paki x Vanda Bill
Dendrobium antennatum
Schomburgkia:
Midnight Ant Hotel
Cow horn

Epidendrum Stamforme (Diforme x Stamforianum)
Grammatophyllum Stapeliiflorum Orchid (Species)

Has orchiditis bitten anyone else here lately! Cuz its kicking my booty!

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Welcome to The Club Kindrag23. There were many threads lately, one that was good is HOW MUCH DID YOU SPEND, check there. You are still in "Normal Zone", between June and now I bought probably over 50 pieces, and spent over $2000, just to make you feel better:-)

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BTW love your choices, especially Grammatophyllum Stapeliiflorum. Love also Cymbidiums, but unfortunately they do not grow good in Miami, like cold winter, we do not have one, but have one, Hawaii sun, which should be more warm tolerant, so will see:-)

[kindrag23]

I was apart of that thread, it just did not hit me until I was working today and caught myself searching for something new!!!!

My hands also feel like they have arthritis in them I have been making so many do it yourself orchid pots. Oy and If I really thought about how much I have spent on supplies and what not I might become sick!!!

I actually had to get my own orchid space outside by order of my family who were tired of orchids and supplies being in the house...We have a nosy puppy who thinks everything on the porch is hers so It is now a new experiment out there! Hahaha!

[kindrag23]

and the funny ting is i am the one who posted about wanting to try a new type of orchid and got all of these great ideas and I was only going to get one and watch my budget....yep nope it has been since blown out of the water. Then I see the pictures and am like eww will it grow here? I want that....how do you care for it. lol lol lol

[TOMMYMIAMI]

:-)
this orchid board is amazing help, and killer as well. Every freaking day someone posts something, about some orchid I have never heard about, and I am like WOW, and than I search if it would grow in my zone, and if yes, it goes on my list. Just today, right now, I read about Inobulbon Munificum, amazing orchid, must have it! (next year), and your Grammatophyllum Stapeliiflorum is ON MY LIST as well! It kills me, the more I am here, the more different babies I want :-)

[kindrag23]

I thought the coloring and fuzzy look to it was the neatest thing ever! Kind of like the Dracula Astera(?) Astata(?) but more tolerent to my climate

[jeremyinsf]

Originally Posted by kindrag23

We have a nosy puppy who thinks everything on the porch is hers so It is now a new experiment out there! Hahaha!

Beware: It only takes a single wag of the tail to take off a spike that took a year in the making! I've had it happen to me. And it's not fun. But you can't really blame them.

On another note in regards to the thread - I mostly stick with Paph's, Phrags, Psychopsis, and a few Masdevallia's. Well, about 20 of them. (That's a few in Orchid-speak.) Anyway, I think I've almost reached a point I have most species and primary hybrids I want. My want-list is down to like 10 things, and they actually aren't a super high priority. Thank goodness, because I've spent SO much money recently on this stuff. Worth every penny though.

[kindrag23]

O well she is a corgi so she does not have a tail she has a super fat butt though. I swear she noses at them really to see if a bug will jump out or not. That is when she knocks them over in her excitement to get to the bug and torture/eat it.

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Our 2 yorkees have absolutely no interest in the plants, thanks God!

[kindrag23]

THey are up on a table now on my porch out of her line of slight/height. Now I am only praying she stays out of the fertilizer/potting media in search of bugs...

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Seriously she only hunts them for the bugs, she used to climb in my gardenia pot to get into the grasshoppers and dirt dobbers sitting on top of the a/c unit. and the pot requires her to get up on her hind paws and jump to get to it. and then she only then barely reaches the top of the A/C

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Okay add Grammatophylllum Wallisi (blooming size) to my growing list....

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okay may have made a hasty purchase on that one.....DID NOT REALIZE HOW FREAKING BIG THEY GET GEEZZZ