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05-21-2016, 02:43 PM
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Intro post
I've been reading posts here for a while, and figured it was about time to make an account so I can join in the fun more.
I started buying orchids early last year, from the local nursery's discount rack, and had some mixed success keeping the distressed plants alive and growing (the paph and the mystery onc. seem to be doing well). Then late last year, I started getting more plants, some of them actually in bloom and healthy, and went from about 4 to 15 in the early part of this year. I've got a lot of other houseplants, but it seems like orchids are THE plant for me.
About half of them are grocery-store phals, and the rest are NOID hybrids, or various species I've acquired (mostly) from the local orchid society shows. I've become really fond of the miniature species, though I don't have very many yet (and lately I've been researching restrepias and pleurothallis and various others a lot so that someday I'll feel up to bringing them into the house).
ETA: Okay. It seems a whole bunch of tags got automatically added to this and now I can't remove any of them. Help? (I've tried to find an answer in various how-tos; I'd delete this whole post and start over but I can't even figure that out.)
Last edited by JFeathersmith; 05-21-2016 at 02:54 PM..
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05-21-2016, 05:52 PM
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Welcome! We look forward to seeing your plants.
The tags don't work. We all just ignore them.
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05-21-2016, 07:19 PM
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Sounds like your orchid adventure has begun enjoy Your Journey
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05-22-2016, 07:21 PM
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05-22-2016, 11:52 PM
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Welcome to OrchidBoard  I like mini species too. |
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05-23-2016, 12:51 AM
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Welcome, it looks as if you're an addict. You have tons of information here for whatever you are planning to grow. I've always had house plants, still do but the orchids are my absolute favorite. I have only four regular sized plants the rest are minis and I can't get enough. This group are enablers and your gonna love it here. Hope you will post pictures of your plants!
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05-24-2016, 11:09 AM
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Welcome to the board.
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05-25-2016, 12:02 AM
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Enablers indeed . . . I remembered earlier today that this is the board where I saw a tradition of a project plant (or 2) of the year. I guess I need to get on that soon so I'm not too far behind, LOL.
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05-25-2016, 12:26 AM
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There's a Member Projects forum. Right now we have Cattleya walkeriana and Leptotes bicolor. We'd love to have you join us!
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05-25-2016, 12:51 AM
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I am! I just sent in an order (Leptotes bicolor). I'm really excited.
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