Imabrat is in Tallahassee, she just recently started with orchids. She has a vanda growing outside on her back deck for many years and one day it just decided it was time to pass. She bought a no name onc of sorts. I was hoping she would post the :photo:s but she has not yet. She is my twin :nod: Hey Carol .. it's your sista, come out, come out where ever you are:biggrin:

Oh no!! Sorry to hear about that loss.

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I'd like to give it a try. Linda from central California. I have a question, I'm fairly new to orchids will there be help in growing the orchid that is chosen. Thanks

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That will be no problem. :)

Bring it on!

I WOULD LIKE TO BE A PART OF THIS TOO.
COUNT ME IN FROM LITTLE FALLS NJ.:nod:

I would like to join in! I agree with Tindo, the ideal plant is a Catt/Catt alliance; they aren't my favourites (I am a Stan guy) but Cattleyas are THE orchids, without a doubt. I think Phals and Paphs (and of course Angraecum) are hours concours this time. The problem is to fit the second rule, "a 'chid (a species, I assume) that none of the participants have"! With more than 2k members all over the world, it is possible that "we" have almost all Cattleya and Laelia known species!!

Hi Linda...
you'll always have help when, and if, you need it ;)

Happy to have you joining us :clap:

Hi Frederico :)

We will go through dozens of 'chids before we find "the one"! It is difficult to find ne that nobody has but it can be done...we've accomplished it three times already :)
We're not dealing with our over 2000 members...just those involved in the project.
It's lots of fun...and it's a learning experience throughout the process because we research the good and bad of each plant suggested along the way :)

It's a lot of fun spending the time together making the decision :)

Happy to see you're interested :cheer:

Just a few more details about the process:

we'll suggest 'chids and they will either be passed over or put on our "tentative list". We will then decide on which vendor we'll be ordering from...in the three previous projects, we were able to get a discount on the project plants (we ALL add a traveling companion or two...or three ;) ) but the discounts are only on the plant picked for the project. I contact the vendor, tell them about our project and they then set aside the number of plants we'll need, all in the same stage of growing. So far, Andy's, Oak Hill and Parkside have been wonderful and we've all loved what we've received from them.

Once we have our "tentative list" narrowed down, there will be a poll posted and the winner of that poll is the plant we all get...even if it's not the plant you voted for. If it's on the list, none of the participants were totally against it to begin with.

One thing I ask as a courtesy is this:
if you see that the plants we're leaning towards are not what you'd be interested in, please bow out early. Your opinions are all taken very seriously. If you absolutely hate something, it won't make it to the list...and then if you decide you don't want to continue, the rest of us no longer have the option of voting for that particular plant.

This is not a rule, and I don't want to discourage anybody from joining us...but it would be the courteous thing to do ;)

I want to give our members some more time to reply to this thread before setting our first scheduled discussion. It will probably be mid-July :)