Salutations from Vancouver!
 

New grower here, have only been growing for around a year. :waving

I almost exclusively grow species. Fragrance is usually the determining factor of what I choose to grow, but I'm also fascinated by really weird genera like Psychopsis or Myrmecophila. Also fatass pseudobulbs.

The ecology of orchid's can decide it too. The orchid that started my interest in the hobby was Angraecum sesquipedale and the famous story about Darwin predicting it's hawkmoth partner. I've yet to get my grubby hands on one, but I want no other orchid more than it.

I try to keep just once species of each genera that peaks my interest since I have limited space, but angraecoids and catasetinae are way too cool to just keep one per genus.

I experimented with hanging and mounting plants, but it made watering kind of annoying. I'm sticking to pots thank you very much.

Like many other orchid growers, I also grow carnivorous plants. Sometimes feels like the orchid-carnivorous grower venn diagram is a circle. I have no idea why. :hmm

It started with just one plant. How did it get so out of hand? :scratchhead:

Welcome!

Welcome to the Orchid Board.

Welcome!

My wife's cat, the little &$%&)&&%$ got his grubby little paws on my sesquipedale this morning. Knocked the plant off a stand and snapped the 3 flowered inflorescence right off. Oh well, we had enjoyed it for a week at least. It's now in a vase in the kitchen window.

You may not have my sesquipedale but I have a really nice kitty I could offer you. ;)

It always starts with just one... can you eat just one potato chip or just one peanut?

Note on Angraecoids... look for Angraecum distichum. It's a mini. Tiny flowers but lots of them. And charming succulent leaves. And once the plant gets well established you can get a flush bloom like this every couple of months or even more. Also fragrant. With cute plants like this, you can have more than one of the genus. http://orchidcentral.org/Images/Angr...tichum%202.jpg (for scale, it is a 4 inch/10 cm basket)

Or, if you like a nice spur-to-flower ratio, consider expanding to Aerangis, like this Aerangis mysticidii http://orchidcentral.org/Images/Angr...icidii%202.jpg ...(mine is mounted but it can also grow in a pot or basket) You can have 10 plants like these in the space taken up by one Angraecum sesquipedale (a wonderful, beautiful species, but not small)

Welcome. A wonderful approach.

Welcome.

Just a word of warning to help prevent some frustration: be careful of a “shot in the dark”, “I’ll get it because it’s neat” approach to collecting.

Think about your overall growing conditions, immediate and seasonally, and get plants that fit your criteria and prefer those.

Welcome to the OB.