Beallara Peggy Ruth Carpenter

[NatalieS]

Originally Posted by Intruder

Well! Very interesting threat. I have also observed that plants baught in garden centers haven a lower vigor then plants baught by nursery. A couple of years ago I visited some dutch orchids orchids producers. There culture method are totally different than ours. The fertilisers are distributed each day weekly (let say 40 ppm nitrogen per day). This quantity make a bunch for a week!The temperature is always superior to 20 °C and the ventilation very high. Artificial lighting start at 6 AM and stop 8 PM during winter. They use also hormones in order to induce the flowering.
When we buy these plants there are on there knee!
Sorry for my poor English it is not my mother language.

It is very interesting to find out how the big Dutch nurseries actually grow their orchids - it certainly fits with my experience of plants bought from garden centres. Thanks for the info!