My entire collection 4/14

[AvantGardner]

I grow under lights in a room I built in my basement this past Autumn. Most of the BS and NBS plants are under a 400 w HPS light, seedlings under 4 x 2' t5s, getting a new LED for my NBS roths in the mail tomorrow.

The list:
Catasetum Dagny (6) BS
Cycnoches cooperi BS
Cycnodes Chiriqui BS
Dendrobium spectabile seedling
Fdk. After Dark BS
Mexipedium xerophyticum 'Oaxaca' division
Mormodia Leopard Drops x *Donna Wise seedling
Mormodia Leopard Drops 'Prscilla's Pink Panther' AM/AOS division
Paph delenatii x sib (Giant x Black Foliage) BS
Paph haynaldianum (Orchid Inn x Jackie AM/AOS) NBS*
Paph hirsutissimum v. esquirolei (3) seedling
Paph kolopakingii seedling (Taiwan breeding)
Paph kolopakingii (Jamboree HCC/AOS x Jeanie's Green Giant) NBS
Paph kolopakingii (Riopelle FCC/AOS x self) NBS
Paph rothschildianum (GV x DF) BS
Paph roth ('Gigantic' FCC/AOS x 'Perfection' FCC/AOS) seedling
Paph roth ('Black Diamond' x 'Atticus' AM/AOS) seedling
Paph roth*('Saltin Pepper' x 'Western*
Monarch' FCC/OZ) NBS
Paph roth*('Imperial Wings' SM/JOGA x 'Titanic' GM/JOGA) NBS
Paph roth ('Imperial Wings' SM/JOGA x 'Perfection' GM/JOGA) NBS
Paph roth*('Revolution' B/CSA x 'Mont Millais' FCC/ RHS FCC/AOS) NBS
Paph sanderianum x sib seedling
Paph stonei ('MBG' x 'Jean') seedling
Paph venustum v measureianum (compot)
Paph (Kolosand x Angel Hair) seedling
Paph (gigantifolium 'Dark Warrior' x kolopakingii 'Jamboree' HCC/AOS) NBS
Paph (stonei 'Jean' x Kolosand 'Windy Hill' HCC/AOS) NBS
Paph. Bel Royal (kolopakingii 'Jamboree' HCC/AOS x rothschidianum 'New Dimension') BS
Paph Cereal Killer (Apple Jack 'Windy Hill' HCC/AOS x Zephyrus Grand Macabre 'Burgundy Glow' AM/AOS) NBS
Paph Greta Kooiker*(Shin-Yi's Pride 'Windy Hill' AM/AOS x parishii 'Green Spiders') NBS*
Paph Lady Isabel (stonei 'The Best' x roth 'Gigantic' FCC/AOS) BS*
Paph Magic Lantern (compot)
Paph Prince Edward of York (30+/- in compots)
Phrag Inca Embers 'Windy Hill' AM/AOS division BS*
Phrag Jason Fischer seedling
Phal NOID (2) BS
Phal Madeline Hayden BS
Vanilla planifolia v variegata (12" cutting)

The pics:

[Leafmite]

Nice group of orchids! It is quite amazing how the number of orchids just multiplies....

[WhiteRabbit]

Very nice!

[annak]

Very interesting collection of Paphs

[AvantGardner]

Thanks. I got the LED today and rigged it up temporarily. I'll have to get it closer to the plants somehow. 3' away is not helping much... Time to get creative...

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Nice collection. I somehow gotta feeling you like Paphs???:-)

[AvantGardner]

I'm partial to paphs... But ctsms also have a place in my heart. I've focused my energy on making my grow space tailored to multifloral paph habit. It just so happens that the ctsms love it as well.

[AvantGardner]

Oh, and the phals kinda like it as well. Two have been in bloom since December and will be for some time to come. My other bloomed w/ 17 flowers in December. Today it has 30 buds. I attribute the jump in production to switching to RO water and K-lite fert. Thanks to Ray from FirstRays for both!

[My Green Pets]

Wow, can't believe all that under one 400w HPS! What's your photoperiod on, and do you ever lengthen/shorten it? Btw I have an HPS ballast but I run a MH conversion bulb in it, and it works great, I'm of the understanding that the blue end of the spectrum is better for vegetative growth.

[AvantGardner]

My photoperiod is about 12 1/2 hrs on right now, I do lengthen and shorten by 2 hrs every year (11-13 on). I also have a window in the room that lets natural light in which gives the plants up to 15 hrs of light in the summer, but it's a south facing window with shadecloth over it so the light is very minimal once the light goes off.
Blue light is better for veg growth. That's why I have the t5s for seedlings. Once they are blooming sized they go under the HPS. Even the NBS plants grow nice leaves there. But my HPS bulb is a SonAgro with enhanced blue.