New Year's Orchid Resolutions

[Gravelsack]

Only buying orchids on my "to buy" list. Gotta say no to the clearance noids!

[RJSquirrel]

#1.) Join the Orchid Society again this year. you learn a lot in the Orchid Societys from all the people that been doing this a long time. Some of them old timers have plants older than most of us.

#2.) Do the Orchid Shows this year. I missed them last year. Orchid Shows are fun and a lot of work. The more hard work you put the more rewarding it is.

#3.) Try to volunteer more for the OS. Havent been able to do my part. I knows its volunteer option driven but they arent ever enough volunteers and the people who been running the shows are being run down with too much to do. They need some help and this year I will try to do more my part in being a volunteer.

#4.) Continue to grow a 'better grown, disease, pest and virus free orchid population'...as long as they are the best looking plants they can be its okey if they slow to bloom...just grow the plant and the blooms will happen.

#5.) Sit down and enjoy my house in 2015. Im tired of fixing stuff since I moved in and I want to sit down and watch TV and look at my plants....just want to sit down and not see anything broken or be needing fixed.

Thats enough for me right now..Have a good 2015. It will be 2015 anyway

[ula]

Happy New Year Everyone!

I got some stuff on my "to do" list as well: read a couple of orchid books (I received my first one as a gift for Christmas), stop being dazzled by everything I see at orchid shows and stick to my shopping list, always check for pests et al when buying a new orchid and stop overwatering. I also have to figure out a way how to make my cats and orchids live in harmony; they seem to want to occupy the same spots on my windowsills...

[The Mutant]

Originally Posted by ula

Happy New Year Everyone!

I got some stuff on my "to do" list as well: read a couple of orchid books (I received my first one as a gift for Christmas), stop being dazzled by everything I see at orchid shows and stick to my shopping list, always check for pests et al when buying a new orchid and stop overwatering. I also have to figure out a way how to make my cats and orchids live in harmony; they seem to want to occupy the same spots on my windowsills...

I'm going to receive my first orchid book next week. I'm so happy!

I fixed the cat/orchid/windowsill issue; I got so many orchids they took up all of the windowsills, but in exchange the kitties got a cat tree so they could look over the orchids. It's a win/win situation or at least when you have cats that don't try to force their way up on a stuffed windowsill. Mine don't, so it works.

We can try to encourage each other not to overwater and form a 'water watchers' group for chronic overwaterers.

[wintergirl]

Originally Posted by The Mutant

We can try to encourage each other not to overwater and form a 'water watchers' group for chronic overwaterers.

Ha Ha, step away from the water...

[Pattywack]

My resolution, buy more orchids. Resist temptation when I see beautiful big plants, keep it small. I bought three from Andy's tonight! A Platystele consobrina, a Stelis hirtzii and a Trichosalpinx chamaelepanthes pendant. Oooh so exciting! Going to be a good orchid year, I can feel it. Happy new year orchid friends.

[lotis146]

Wow, Orchid resolutions huh? Where do I start...

I need to have better and more organized shelving and growing spaces. I need it to be easier for me to get in and around my Orchids, access for watering (more on that below), better organization so plants get necessary light and not buried so I forget all about them.

Right now I have to haul over 50 Orchids to the bathroom, spending over two hours easily on watering days. So I want to change my setup to make watering easier and efficient. It would also be nice if I was organized enough to have plants that need more water grouped together...would be nice...

I want to attend the Orchid shows this year (only made it to the Botanical Gardens Orchid Exhibit in Chicago last year). And exercise supreme discipline when it comes to buying plants there. That goes across the board: create a wishlist and stick to it, stop buying plants opportunistically.

I aspire to bloom all plants I have not, as well as growing bigger, better, more numerous flowers. A lot of my current reblooms have been smaller than the first time.

And stop finding a way to cause rot in my Catts.

Put together a grow room/space in the basement after finishing the basement. Achieve successful pollination and pod harvests for several crosses I'd like to try; this means I need these plants to flower and flower together!

Improve my Orchid photography.

Of course I too would like to know more about my specific Orchids and what they need to be happier instead of just treating them all as groups!

Happy New Year! May it be productive, creative, inspiring, healthy, and full of beautiful Orchids. I'm excited to see what new blooms and bounties the year holds.

[bil]

Mine are to finish my greenhouse and set it up.

[Kevinator]

Wow! All of us seem to have different resolutions for our orchids then! Let's wait and see our accomplishments. In the meantime, if there are more you would like to share please feel free to do so!

Originally Posted by Leafmite

1) Give away the Cattleya purpurata. Who am I kidding? I don't have room for a two-foot tall orchid under my lights. Right. I doubt it will be going anywhere.
3) Either figure out how to bloom the Cyncnodes Wine Delight 'Jem' divisions or get rid of them. They were in full sun and I fertilized and watered them like crazy...still no blooms?
4) Figure out how to bloom Bulbo ambrosia. It grows like crazy but is another I cannot get to bloom.

Leafmite: regarding the first two plants, will you be giving them away for free? I may consider them since they are on my wishlist. As for your Bulbo. ambrosia, try giving it more light. I've been growing mine with Cattleyas on the garden window i mentioned for about two months now and it's producing a spike.

[The Mutant]

Originally Posted by lotis146

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Right now I have to haul over 50 Orchids to the bathroom, spending over two hours easily on watering days. So I want to change my setup to make watering easier and efficient. It would also be nice if I was organized enough to have plants that need more water grouped together...would be nice...

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Improve my Orchid photography.

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Happy New Year! May it be productive, creative, inspiring, healthy, and full of beautiful Orchids. I'm excited to see what new blooms and bounties the year holds.

Sounds like at my place (except I have over 70 orchids right now) if you replace the bathroom with the kitchen sink.


Now is doable since not that many want to be watered too often, during summer it can take at least 2 hours every day though... But I'll keep it as it is since this way of watering, time consuming as it is, is what works best for me.

But yeah, I also need to organize my collection better but after light- and temperature requirements. I've gotten the humidity trays now so all I'm waiting for is the light fixtures and the T5s.

Oh, yes. I need to buy a new camera. Mine's from when the dinosaurs roamed the earth (they had digital cameras then, I swear).

Thank you and same to you!