Hello again.
 

So I guess you can say I am new again (like everything old). I've been rather diminished in the orchid game for a while (a few years) but the bug has bitten hard again. My measly dozen or so plants that have made it through my long trek through 15 years of the hobby have suddenly expanded to about thirty, and all of a sudden I have a vivarium where a laundry room was.

I suppose this is a relapse.

First started growing orchids when I was 14 in Houston, have gone up and down with them. At one point had nearly 2000 plants in a 10x20x12' greenhouse in the east texas pineywoods, and a budding breeding program (har). Lost almost all of my collection to a freeze when I was in college, in 2003. Got back into things a little between 06 and 09, but had some personal drama curb things for a while. Now things are back with a vengeance, but I am an apartment dweller and now am back to like my beginnings as a youngster, under lights, in love with Cattleyas.

My collection is mostly species, with a few primary hybrids, one hybrid that is a primary crossed back to a parent species, and the complex hybrid is Rsc. (I believe is the nomenclature now) Goldenzelle 'Lemon Chiffon' that may in fact bloom for the first time after I bought it 4 or 5 years ago as a seedling at home depot. It happens to have been one of the first orchids I coveted in the Stewart Orchids catalog, and that was when they were still in carpenteria, and the 2" clones of the mother plant were $75.:rofl:

:hello

-Cecily

Welcome to OB :D

Welcome!

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I don't think orchids ever let go of us completely!

Welcome back Cecily :welcomeflowers:

Welcome (back!)! :)

Welcome to Orchid Board! Your plants all look very healthy.

Did you manage to save your C walkeriana you got awarded?

You know you can run but you can't hide from orchids.

Brooke

Welcome back

I do not have a piece, but several people do. i may call in a division

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Phal pulcherima and Gur Barbara Hirsch are in spike, Enc. dickinsoniana just opening. C. lawrenciana has a bodacious growth going, and I hope that the improved conditions will prompt blooms from Rlc Goldenzelle and C. percivaliana, in their times. I am interested to see these spikes on barbara hirsch. They lack sheaths! I suppose from the fact they broke while the plants were languishing with too little light and water. But now holy roots and growth batman. There may be a spike on Bif. harrisoniae 'Howe' AM/AOS, but i cannot tell what the nubbin is. Cym aloifolium, old faithful, is in bloom and B. nodosa 'Susan Fuchs' AM/AOS is pushing up a bunch of red leads on the balcony in the one spot that gets great light spring and summer and part of fall. It and the cym live there. ANd if i get really crazy, I might get a couple ascocentrums. I love A. curvifolium.

I'm gonna need to add an 8-tube bank of t-8s for vandacious wintering in the plant room. Which will of course just mean more plants filling up the vivarium. LOL I plan to end up with the 8-tube bank up top, then the 6-tube I have now over the big catts. the 4-tube over the smaller plants below, and a 2-tube at the very bottom, for flasks and young seedlings.

Also, I shall tan in there.

Because crazy plant lady.

-Ceci