A good place for my first post :)

[social_misfit]

Good Evening Folks I joined your fine forum the other day

and thought it was time to say hello before posting in

other places


So Hello !!!!

I am in the Northeast of the USA and just got about 44

inches of snow to make it so I do not forget it is still

winter

I have not grown Orchids since 1983 but I started

growing them back in 1977 in college and went to work

in the plant industry in 1979 first for Jones and Scully

in Miami then worked in their foliage plant nursery down

in Homestead

I got out of the plants when I went to work in the Steel

industry in Gary

at the time money made the world go round , I was young

now I work a couple days a week at a geek job and have the time

and the want to grow plants inside again

In do a lot of outside gardening but have not grown a plant inside

in many many years

In the past I grow Orchids and Bromeliads

I have no good windows here in my house so I will be growing

under lights for now and I hope to build a small greenhouse this spring

right now I have 12 one dollar Cattleya Alliance plants that I got off of ebay

under a couple of 4 foot twin tube shoplights that I use to start

all my vegetable plants going right now

I do have a couple of HID lights I bought back awhile ago with the thought of

grow some vegetables inside over the winter (greens , tomatoes, etc.)

but have not got around to it as of yet

any good reads on growing under HID lights and Orchids

well enough of the blah blah blah for now and on with the reading

all the best and a great evening

S_M