...I mean one time at a grocery store, ...a "Piggly Wiggly", I picked up a Phal with lots of big snow white blooms! 'Twas the spring of '98. It hung out in a shaded window for a couple of months! <<<fade to black>>>
Hi ,my name is Lee and I'm an orchid addict...
I have 500 plus Os now and a D-I-Y two story greenhouse directly behind the house.
I chose "Savor" because I 'save' (get it?) orchids like other people save (insert a collectible) especially species. Also since I feel each and every orchid is to be 'savored'. My favorite orchid is any one with a fragrance (okay, a pleasant fragrance)!
I have the equipment setup in my hobby lab and have been marginally successful in my first solo attempt at flasking. The "capsule" (not a seed pod as I have been taught by a judge in Atlanta, initials A.L.) was Epi. lacustre. One of 4 flasks has survived 2 months! I have selfed and crossed orchids having about ten capsules. I am choosing to go the route of mature dry seed sowing.
I am IN with both feet! I have travelled thrice to Ecuador and think we should all contribute if only a few bucks to the preserves being established there or anywhere in the world. I plan to do the same here too. I'm "in training" to lead some tours to experience orchids in situ. I would like for these tours to be in part fund raisers to spare orchids from the "Killing Fields". I also subscribe to the school of thought that by providing species cultivated from seed, we help spare the orchids growing in the wild. We can even help to re-establish them in their home range. We simply must return funds to forests and fields to ensure the habitats are preserved.
At a time when many are getting out of the businesses of orchids, I am strategically planning to enter.
Thanks for the invitation to jump into the forums...I look forward to lurking again...
...I tend to post only when I have some pertinent actual experience to share with someone or to help someone find what they are looking for here. I'll be over here soaking up everything that ya'll contribute...Thanks!
One time, at band camp...
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