Newly addicted

[silken]

Originally Posted by kai55

Yes, I ordered from Cloud's... after I stalked the website for a good five months.

I'm thinking of taking a road trip to their repotting workshop next weekend, but I'm sort of scared that I'd be coming home with more plants. Has anyone here attended their talks before?

I sure would, but am sadly too far away. I was in the Niagara region last fall and hoped to go there but it wasn't their retail weekend, so my one chance, didn't work out. A re-potting workshop would likely be very helpful for a newbie. Just don't take too much money or a credit card. That's how some people control themselves at orchid shows

[astrid]

Get a shelf with levels and put it in front of a window. It increases your space quite a lot and allows you to position light-loving orchids on brighter shelves and shade-loving orchids on dimmer shelves.

Don't feel bad if you kill some of those; sometimes they arrive with some issue that you couldn't have predicted or prevented, and sometimes as a noob you just kill stuff!

You may worry and try to nitpick and make hyper-specific conditions for your plants, but don't worry. Keep them in temperatures that are comfortable for you as a human, and get them into the proper potting media (this depends on your watering habits and environment and can really vary from person to person! chunky bark chips are usually a safe choice). Once you get the orchid set into the conditions it likes, just leave it alone and water/fertilize as your schedule dictates!
Don't be too much of a worry-wart.


tl;dr
–a shelf increases your space and lets you have different lighting based on each level of the shelf
–we all kill orchids and sometimes it isn't our fault
–get the orchids into good conditions and they'll do the rest

[VTA Cat]

Welcome from another newbie! Everyone is really helpful.

[Cntry]

just have faith and lots of patience. Ask questions as you have them as our group here is a great bunch and will jump in and help you out any time you need them.

You doing it the right way taking it slowly.. I jumped in and went from Phals to 16 Flasks of babies when I started. I have learned a lot and love every moment of it. So enjoy you love of orchids and welcome to the group here.

[RosieC]

Welcome to Orchid Board

[ThePinkCucumber]

Welcome!

[RNCollins]

Welcome from New York!

[No-Pro-mwa]

Welcome to the board.

[kai55]

Thanks for all the welcomes

It looks like I'll be waiting a day longer than I thought I would for the plants: three days for three hours, who'd've thunk it? Canada Post has some phenomenally logical boundaries for sorting centers, sending the plants roughly 150km past me and then back again (while taking a day to do it).

In other news, I somehow got a free upgrade from repotme. I paid for the 4-5 business day service (the slowest/cheapest option they have), and they shipped via 2 day priority. Amazing

[phalnoob]

Hey 😊 im new here to and totally addicted went from zero to 7 in like 2 months.
They are just fabulous plants