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12-18-2007, 07:06 PM
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The love has just started! Wait until you discover phal species .. you'll have to get a violacea!  and equestris! and a ....
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That first one looks like cake. Im hungry now. mmm, cold orchid for dessert!! 
I must have been a goat in my past life, then again, I am a Capricorn.
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12-18-2007, 08:01 PM
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[QUOTE=Dorothy;70681]The love has just started! Wait until you discover phal species .. you'll have to get a violacea! and equestris! and a ....
Tell me about it! I think I am hooked for life! There is no turning back! |
12-19-2007, 04:11 AM
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The others just follow me home from the market, a friends house, or who knows where. They do that, don't they?
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Kim, yes! They certainly do... I sometimes look at the group of them and ask them 'How did you lot get here?'
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The love has just started! Wait until you discover phal species .. you'll have to get a violacea! and equestris! and a ....
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I bought a seedling equestris at the orchid show back in August... then I added braceana - a cool grower!! - and then deliciosa and lowii. I chanced upon a stuartiana, and the mottled leaves were irresistable. I swooned over a peloric form of Doritis pulcherrima var. coerulea, and was absolutely smitted by the possibilities of a seedling Dtps. Kenneth Schubert x Phal. tetraspis 'C1'....
How did I end up with so many?!?!? 
Here's a collage I did of 'the ones who followed me home'...
If I can get all these through this winter, I will work on getting something better for them next winter. Good news is that the little mini one that came as a free gift has two little nubbins of spikes starting... so they mustn't be completely unhappy.
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I must have been a goat in my past life, then again, I am a Capricorn.
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Tin, I'm with Dorothy... I think that explains a lot! Maybe not everything  but a lot! 
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12-19-2007, 05:02 AM
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Here's a collage I did of 'the ones who followed me home'...
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That's about as pretty as stalkers get...
so braceana is cool-growing huh? i had laid my eyes on one since i thought it could prosper in my tank but i might have to think differently then..  oops i had actually typed "...i could prosper in my tank..."
with a little more room that would be true.. |
12-19-2007, 06:08 AM
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That's about as pretty as stalkers get...
so braceana is cool-growing huh? i had laid my eyes on one since i thought it could prosper in my tank but i might have to think differently then.. oops i had actually typed "...i could prosper in my tank..."
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I think anyone would be happy and prosper in there!! I know I would be happy.
Phal. lindenii, braceana & deliciosa were the ones that I could find that would grow in cooler temps.
IOSPE PHOTOS
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Found in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Myanamar, south China and Vietnam at elevations of 1100 to 2100 meters as a miniature, warm to cool growing epiphyte with large roots and one to two, deciduous, oblong-elliptic, subacute leaves
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So it is probably temperature tolerant, rather than a true cool grower. The cultural data I got for it says:
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Summer days average 73-76F (23-24C), and nights average 63-64F (17-18C). Winter days average 63-64F (17-18C), and nights average 32-35F (0-2C).
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Which seemed just about right for my growing conditions. Mine hasn't been deciduous, though... even though temps have gone down to 7C.
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12-19-2007, 07:23 AM
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WOW! Unfortunately, it's 30 mlies to my nearest sainsbury's!  |
12-19-2007, 08:19 AM
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Judi, unfortunately, I don't see some of these novelties in the garden centres here. The lilac purple one in the collage did come from a garden centre, though. But I bought that one mostly because it had such pretty silver spotted leaves. As Sainsbury's marks all of their 'produce' with coutnry of origin, I can tell that these come from Taiwan. Based on my research, I believe they come from Welcome To Long Pride Orchids Nursery
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12-19-2007, 09:24 AM
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shak, I just LOVE your collection of Phals!  |
12-19-2007, 12:17 PM
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Thanks, Sue! I'll never have an extensive collection, but some are just too nice to pass up when I see them. I need to get that lindenii next year. |
12-20-2007, 04:22 AM
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I think anyone would be happy and prosper in there!! I know I would be happy.
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Shakkai,
just so you know, my tank is out for hire...weekends and children's birthdays.. just send me a PM.. AND A PHAL!
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