I know what you mean about wintering the orchids in the house. Since I don't have a proper green/hot house, we pull all of the plants indoors for the winter. This past year, they started in front of an east facing 96" sliding glass door...cramped but everyone seemed ok...then we lost heat in the house UGH!!! so we used a kerosene heater (these things have come a long way...no odor at all and it heated 1200 sf for about 7 hours with 2 gallons of fuel!!!). On the really cold nights I moved all of the plants into an upstairs bathroom that rarely gets used and put a ceramic heater in there to keep them warm but they got little if any light....through all of this, I lost none of my plants and even had a great deal of new growth on several of them...I did lose the bloom spike on my stanhopea grandiflora and a large white phal went into spike and never budded...but for the most part, I was pretty pleased....
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