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Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts
What are the Baker sheets?
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Over a whole lot of years, Charles Baker and his wife Margaret accumulated huge amounts of data for individual species. They published culture sheets with temperature, rainfall, cloud cover, and cultural data. An enormous body of work. The Bakers have passed on - there is a foundation that still sells the sheets, I think for about $2 each.
Orchid Culture -- Charles and Margaret Baker. There are some sample culture sheets on the site to show the kind of data included, the Orchidwiz interface is a whole lot friendlier.
Orchidwiz, the database program, licensed the whole opus (including digitizing a bunch of them that had only been on paper) and prettied up the interface to make them easier to use. I think that there are close to 5000 species that have these culture sheets available in Orchidwiz... for species that don't, the bare-bones habitat summaries in
IOSPE make at least an educated guess possible, but those culture sheets are 'WAY more detailed.
Disclaimer... I don't have any relationship with Orchdwiz,other than it's my go-to source for most of what I know about the details of orchid species and hybrids. It unfortunately only runs on Windows... a Mac with a Windows emulator would probably work but I don't know anybody who is doing that so can''t say for sure.
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