Project 2 (Summer 2006) - Sign Up & Suggestions

[justatypn]

I'm with you Susanne, want one that will show us results quicker than 1/4 of a decade give or take...sounds long huh. I'm looking and looking for any signs of buds daily, dang the pot just wont boil. The reason we have so many chids is that once we get down to 2 or 3 chids blooming we know in a month there will be none in bloom and still looking and looking so we just go buy more...great concept...works for me...honey get out the level, hammer and nails were making our nook bigger.

[Oscarman]

I'm in....plant suggestions to come, of course anything paph works for me!

[Tindomul]

How about P. armenicum??? Or is that really expensive? (I don't know anything about that one though).

[littlefrog]

For some reason P. armeniacum is relatively hard to find. Especially in flasks or seedlings. I don't know if they just don't set a lot of seed, or something about flasking them is more difficult, but I haven't seen any small plants offered for sale in a long time. Not that I can afford, anyway.

Armeniacum itself isn't particularly hard to grow, but it is a fair bit more tricky than a lot of paphs. It wants to stay drier, and get fairly cold in the fall to initiate buds. Plus it sends long stolons around that can get trapped in pots, so it is probably a good candidate for growing in a basket... That tends to throw people off.

[cb977]

there are 14 YES votes in the poll, but only 9 posts, so we have 5 people that are interested but we don't now who they are...

could we please get those 5 members to post something so we know who is involved?

Thanks...

Also, any other members who vote in the poll, please be sure to post an entry saying that you would like to join us in this project.

We are only in the very beginning stages of this so you don't need to post your choices now, just let us know who you are

Thanks again

[cb977]

Tin, I really really like your suggestion of Dichea glauca.
From what I've read, it would do well in just about any location. I'm going to add it to my list of choices too

http://abundaflora.com/dic_glauca.htm
http://www.sborchid.com/OrchidOfTheD...aea-glauca.htm

I also like the Angraecum idea, how's this?
http://www.orchidspecies.com/angbirrimense.htm

and I like this too:
http://www.orchidspecies.com/dendrocwenzelii.htm

[Tindomul]

Thanks Rob for the info. I think in light of the new info, P. armeniacum should definetly be disqualified. As the soup nazi would say "NEXT ORCHID!!!!!!!!!"

[Tindomul]

Sue I like that list!!!!!

[Oscarman]

While I am sure there are others, Cloud's Orchids has a varied selection of Paphs - making them available for the Canadian participants. Many are what they call ms (medium seedling), should bloom within 24 months. Oh, look....they have Paph. wardii! They even have an alba form!

[cb977]

I wasn't particularly saying we should order from Cloud's (though I'm not against it either), I was just looking at pretty pictures