new growing area for this year
 

Have been working on this little room for a week or so....

took paneling down and sealed huge gaps to outside that were leting cold air blow in like the door was open last winter....put old stuff back up for the most part but do have one wall I will get new paneling for that is still unfinished ....took out old celing that was water damaged from a major leak before I came to stay with mom that I have had fixed...new sheetrock celing installed but I still have to tape and float it and paint ect ...but it is in ...

Decided to start bringing in chids before weather gets cool enought to call for the house to need heat and stress them by moving after that ....It always causes major stress in my experiance to wait that long...

I have got a table set up and most inside as of today and with the lights on its 81 degrees right now ...about what it was outside today. LOL ran out of room on the table and have to clean up the other table to get the rest inside tomorrow but here is a first picture ....

Oh forgot to mention lights ...two 85 watt cfls so far are hung am thinking I will go with four of the 85 watt cfls this year over the tables and maybe a hps over the phaius since it will be huge this year and lol I want two or three spikes on it this year

Looks fabulous John! :)

It looks great. All of your ochids look so flawless and bright green. No burnt ends or spots on the leaves. They sure look happy! I have a few like that but others don't look so perfect.

well thanks for saying that but it is not true ....I have my bad spots they just did not show in the picture

Looks great!

Quite a few in S/H, how will you be watering them?

Cheers.
Jim

Gorgeous place and the orchids look very happy too.

Very nice set up. But it looks like you love coffee as much as orchids :biggrin:

all but two in pots are s/h one is a trias and I have to research it more first ..the other is a den aggregatum and this winter will stay as is might mount it next spring.

I use a spray bottle and spry them once or twice a day and usualy sit them in the shower and flush on sundays....usually I actualy let the shower give them a good rain for 5 or 10 mins as well after flushing well.

The Cattaleya intermedia is doing great mounted and touls are good mounted and they just get sprayed down daily.

LOL I dont drink coffee at home I collect all the containers from friends and family to use for s/h....

Looks like a nice set-up, and the 'chids look so healthy.

Thanks Connie.Its been a real challenge just fixing the room.Mom dosent deal with change well and this was my dads old radio room so so just opening it back up for use has been upsetting to her. It is getting better finaly I am still working on figuring out the best light for which chids and realy need to run a new electric line to handle more equipment but have to do stuff in stages so she can adjust.
we have realy had some major confusion the last couple of weeks just because I was replacing the celing and sealing the drafts but I have been trying to aproach it a little at a time so she could adjust.

She realy got depressed for a while when I started because this was my dads hobby room when he was alive and he had his radio equipment in it.

Looking good ...