Easy (Indoors) Growing Orchids

[Jerry Delaney]

Personally, I find one of the great things about growing orchids is that they keep you humble. The orchid society back in the Midwest where I started growing used to have an AOS judged show every year. I had not been growing that many years when I put in a small display that contained an number of Dendrobium hybrids. I wound up taking first place in every color category but one. When the show rolled around the following year, I did not have a SINGLE living Dendrobium to put in my display!! I must be really dumb because after all these years, I have little trouble in killing some types of Dens,so you won't find many in my collection. I once had a long time grower tell me that every one eventually becomes more or less an expert growing their orchid collection because they have killed every orchid that doesn't grow well for them!! Truth be known, even the most experienced of us wind up killing a plant every now and then. Welcome and hang in there!