Oncidium Mickey Mouse?

[daemondamian]

Anyone know where I can find a photo of Oncidium 'Mickey Mouse'? I just bought one last Thursday at my local orchid club meeting which is on a huge treefern mount and also in spike

[Shadow]

Congratulations! I'm sure you will have your own photo very soon!

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by Shadow

Congratulations! I'm sure you will have your own photo very soon!

Thanks, I hope so. Too many things in spike now [and on huge mounts] to be taking them in every night and popping them back out in the morning..

Hopefully my cat has 'dealt' with those mice that chewed through the spikes of my Miltonia stenoglossa a few months back

[Shadow]

Originally Posted by daemondamian

Thanks, I hope so. Too many things in spike now [and on huge mounts] to be taking them in every night and popping them back out in the morning..

Hopefully my cat has 'dealt' with those mice that chewed through the spikes of my Miltonia stenoglossa a few months back

Sounds like you do a lot of extra job every day.

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by Shadow

Sounds like you do a lot of extra job every day.

Well not so much now with leaving the flowering or in spike orchids in the GH, but I can't wait to have all my orchids in the same place near the tap and hose..

It will be much easier to water them all at once and maybe I won't even mind having to water them between 6-8am [because of water restrictions here].

[Shadow]

Originally Posted by daemondamian

Well not so much now with leaving the flowering or in spike orchids in the GH, but I can't wait to have all my orchids in the same place near the tap and hose..

It will be much easier to water them all at once and maybe I won't even mind having to water them between 6-8am [because of water restrictions here].

What is the water restriction?

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by Shadow

What is the water restriction?

No watering lawns. Manual hand watering only between 6-8 AM or 8-10PM on Tuesdays and Sundays. Also restriction on using watering systems, washing cars, paths, filling up swimming pools (I think new swimming pools need permits to fill them up)...

[Shadow]

Poor you! But how they will know if you have watering system inside the house? Or you need something like a licence to buy watering system in a shop?

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by Shadow

Poor you! But how they will know if you have watering system inside the house? Or you need something like a licence to buy watering system in a shop?

They don't! No you don't need a license.

My main concern is paphs, masdevallias
etc during Summer, other orchids don't mind drying out between waterings -ie vandas/tolumnias.

I might end up hooking up a sprinkler/water system on timer thingy that would water during the hours when it is ok to use them, otherwise it is getting out of bed early

Besides I have to motivate myself just to water once a week!

Some places in Australia are not even allowed to water their garden outside at all/ever! So I'm lucky, and we get rain here so a water tank seems the best way to go.

[Shadow]

Oh no! So, some people are allowed to have only desert instead of garden. Very sad....