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01-25-2011, 09:31 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
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Location: Plantation, Florida
Age: 78
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Welcome to Orchid Board. Many people join because they have trouble growing orchids. But it sounds like you're been pretty successful. Congratulations.
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01-25-2011, 12:11 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Chicagoland, IL
Age: 44
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Originally Posted by RosieC
Welcome to Orchid Board 
I wish I could grow some in my office as I would love to have them arround me as I work. Would probably be a distraction though and anyway there is no natural light. |
Thank you and you can do it, too! My desk barely gets any natural light at all; we have fluorescent lights overhead (typical office). I've come up with a very long-winded, complex way to get my orchids to bloom in-office. It takes a willing coworker with a north-facing window, a little fertilizer, a plant mister and a lot of of patience!! |
01-25-2011, 12:25 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Aurora, Illinois
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Hi.. Biomech- There are alot of great Orchid vendors in the Chicago area, here are a few Oak Hill Gardens, in West Dundee, Il. Orchids By Hausermann, Villa Park and Natt's Orchids, Naperville. And like I mentioned in my other post our show is in Wheaton at the fairgrounds Feb.19 & 20th, there will be vendors from all over the midwest selling plants & supplies... Jim.
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01-25-2011, 01:04 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Chicagoland, IL
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Originally Posted by tucker85
Welcome to Orchid Board. Many people join because they have trouble growing orchids. But it sounds like you're been pretty successful. Congratulations.
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Thanks! My first two blooms only yielded one and three buds, respectively, but I guess practice makes perfect because the last one (which was right on my 30th birthday, ironically--August 22) yielded seven. |
01-25-2011, 02:10 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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Location: Mountain Home, Idaho
Age: 58
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Hello and Welcome to OB!
Many orchids are much less care intensive than your aquariums. Sounds like you might have some good humidity levels with all the fish around.
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01-25-2011, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by trdyl
Hello and Welcome to OB!
Many orchids are much less care intensive than your aquariums. Sounds like you might have some good humidity levels with all the fish around.
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That's very true. Fishkeeping is a very complicated, sensitive hobby...good background for orchid keeping! Browsing some of the posts here gave me an idea last night--what if I mount shelves on the walls, away from furniture that the cats could jump onto, and put the orchids on these shelves? Hmmmm, interesting idea! I'd love to have them at home, and this way they can be "wall art" as well! |
01-25-2011, 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by biomechorchid
Browsing some of the posts here gave me an idea last night--what if I mount shelves on the walls, away from furniture that the cats could jump onto, and put the orchids on these shelves?
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The cats might like the shelves too.... |
01-25-2011, 03:20 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Chicagoland, IL
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Originally Posted by trdyl
The cats might like the shelves too....
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They will, but not if they're out of reach!!  |
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