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camille1585 · #11 09-21-2009, 11:42 AM

Me too I get most of my orchids on internet since I'm more into species now, but I get the occasional NOID at the garden center, and always love to see what they have in stock!

Sicco · #12 09-21-2009, 11:58 AM

Hi Camille,

As I do not have Internet at home, I use it here, so I am going home now.
BTW. In your list, you mention Haraella odorata twice.

Have a nice evening or better Bonne nuit.

Sicco

JandenHeld · #13 09-21-2009, 03:21 PM

Camille, I don't have a picture of the Epidendrum, but it does look very much like radicans, nice yellow-and-orange flowers. I think I will go to the NOV-dag, so maybe we'll see each other there.

RenéeS · #14 09-22-2009, 04:28 PM

Welcome to the forum, fellow dutchy

I hope you learn alot here, there is so much information to read about orchids here, quite nice :P. What kind of plants did you used to grow on your windowsill before you got your greenhouse (people with greenhouses make me a little jealous :P)?

Also nice to see that there are more people that are amazed that some people have plants as old as them, or have been growing for the same amount of time that we have been alive!

Question for Camille: Where do you buy your plants online? I've been looking into this, but am afraid to order anything since I heard about some bad experiences (for example on ebay

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camille1585 · #15 09-22-2009, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by RenéeS

Question for Camille: Where do you buy your plants online? I've been looking into this, but am afraid to order anything since I heard about some bad experiences (for example on ebay

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Just sent you a PM.

JandenHeld · #16 09-23-2009, 04:41 AM

Hi Renée,
The usual stuff: Paphs, Phals, Dendrobium nobile, the Epidendrum. But I discovered soon that low humidity was a problem, so after a year or two when I bought a Brassia verrucosa I built a window vitrine, and from there it went on and on!

camille1585 · #17 09-23-2009, 05:09 AM

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Originally Posted by JandenHeld

Hi Renée,
The usual stuff: Paphs, Phals, Dendrobium nobile, the Epidendrum. But I discovered soon that low humidity was a problem, so after a year or two when I bought a Brassia verrucosa I built a window vitrine, and from there it went on and on!

I think that's how most people evolve in their orchid growing. It's a continuous quest to give them the best possible conditions! I started on a windowsill, then added lights, got higher light loving orchids and then upgraded to better lights. Luckily humidity is not a problem, my meter never reads less than 50-60% even in the winter.
How many orchids have you managed to put into your greenhouse?

Sicco · #18 09-23-2009, 12:35 PM

I do not think that it is possible to change the windowsill from the office I use in Wageningen, the owner won't agree. So I have to do it with this windowsill (and the windowsill in the office next to mine....)

JandenHeld · #19 09-23-2009, 03:17 PM

Well, too many of course. I think about 400, but to be honest maybe a quarter of them are just hanging on, not or only rarely flowering, or getting smaller every year and eventually fading away. On the other hand, quite a few species are doing well and provide much beauty and joy. Gongora (quinquenervis, armeniaca, atropurpurea, truncata)and Stanhopea (oculata, hernandezii, embreei, graveolens) are some of my favorites and these spectacular plants are not that difficult to grow.

Sicco · #20 09-24-2009, 01:24 PM

Hi Jan,

Gongora, Stanhopea (as well as Catasetum or Cycnoches) have wonderful and sometimes bizar flowers. I tried some of them in the windowsill once but did not have any luck with these, none of them has survived so I think I have to much sun for them.

And, as some of these get their flowers from 'down-under' (no, not as far as Australia), they are almost obliged to grow in a basket, and I do not think I will make friends with the 'house-lord' trying to hang baskets with plants here.

I wish you more luck with the plants that are not thriving.