The Growing Conditions Poll - Page 4 - Orchid Board

HighSeas · #31 07-16-2014, 11:52 PM

[QUOTE=JMNYC;694019]Wow. Do any of them grow mounted ON the trees?[COLOR="Silver"]

I have many mounted....but not on trees. It's ironic though, that you should ask....because I've been pondering that!

Just not completely convinced that they will be able to tolerate our occasional very cold winters. I many try it yet though.

JMNYC · #32 07-17-2014, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by JMNYC

Wow. Do any of them grow mounted ON the trees?[COLOR="Silver"]

I have many mounted....but not on trees. It's ironic though, that you should ask....because I've been pondering that!

Just not completely convinced that they will be able to tolerate our occasional very cold winters. I many try it yet though.

Interesting! I asked cause I think about what growing outdoors where you are must be like, and I do know the attaching to trees to allow roots to adhere over time strategy is an option for some.

But U bet, atypically cold winter intervals, hurricanes, all that stuff, would be issues to factor in, cause once really attached, you could not remove them easily or without major trauma.

RosieC · #33 07-22-2014, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by JMNYC

You could have chosen all of them! I made sure to include that option.

Voted now. Seems the Tapatalk app doesn't let people vote in polls, at least not on my Android tablet, and I didn't have access to a browser for the last week.

JMNYC · #34 07-22-2014, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by RosieC

Voted now. Seems the Tapatalk app doesn't let people vote in polls, at least not on my Android tablet, and I didn't have access to a browser for the last week.

But Rosie, Android rocks!

I would rather eat worms than own an iphone! Even my ebook reader is Android!!!

RosieC · #35 07-23-2014, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by JMNYC

But Rosie, Android rocks!

I would rather eat worms than own an iphone! Even my ebook reader is Android!!!

Oh I love Android, but never really tried iOS so can't really comment

JMNYC · #36 07-23-2014, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by RosieC

Oh I love Android, but never really tried iOS so can't really comment

I heah U!

Only Google related entity I would go near now, forget cherish: Android.

Optimist · #37 07-23-2014, 10:20 PM

I just voted on android using tapatalk!

Dante1709 · #38 07-23-2014, 11:13 PM

I grow my orchids on a windowsill for the most part, but on nice summer days, I let them out during the day and bring them inside at night (to have a large nighttime drop). During gloomy days, I'll just place them under fluorescents instead.

pipsxlch · #39 03-09-2016, 09:03 PM

My conditions would be very close to HighSea's; I *think* without looking at the USDA map I may be a tad warmer most winters, but only by a couple degrees. It may be the same.
I don't have an indoor area I could grow a philodendron in. All my orchids are outside hanging from chains strung between 4 trees (a laurel oak, an almost dead rain tree, a cabbage palm and a cedar). The few exceptions are a couple hanging from an awning and a 'hospital area' under its corner, where I have some of my dendrobiums (because it's nearer the building and warmer) and some of my smallest seedlings (because my rain cache is there also, so more humidity). Except for the dendrobiums, vandas and a stanhopea, gongora and struggling coryanthes, everything is cattleya alliance because they seem to like my conditions and care best.
(nothing with much sophronitis in it though; they can't take the heat)
p.s. none mounted although they can do very well here that way- and seem to handle the cold better then too. I don't own this property, so would lose anything mounted. I do keep a couple plants that I view as mounting prospects, hoping one day to be able to move back south and have my own little place.

catherinecarney · #40 03-15-2016, 08:13 PM

Just voted on this and chose "other" since how I grow my orchids depends on the time of year and the orchid in question.

During the winter I have phals growing in an east facing window without supplemental light, higher light orchids (catt alliance, onc alliance, etc) in a south window with T5 strips to supplement, they go outdoors as soon as the weather settles in late spring, and they stay out as long as possible into the fall. Some end up tucked into a mini-greenhouse with the garden seedlings if the weather is unstable, so I guess that counts as a greenhouse....

Catherine