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Forum: Vendor Feedback 07-06-2010, 12:41 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,818
Posted By coirchoir
Thanks All

Thanks to all for your attentive responses!!
Bayard - sounds like a lot of good advice; will remember to keep underpotted, dry but humid till new roots appear!!
Duane - thanks to you too, will...
Forum: Vendor Feedback 07-02-2010, 09:50 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,818
Posted By coirchoir
Well, today I got my surprise package!!! Within...

Well, today I got my surprise package!!!
Within a day of my last message I got an email form C&H, remembering their promise and asking if they could send some replacements out! WHat do you think I...
Forum: Vendor Feedback 06-28-2010, 04:49 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,818
Posted By coirchoir
Thanks Gin - will keep y'all posted!

Thanks Gin - will keep y'all posted!
Forum: Vendor Feedback 06-28-2010, 12:57 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,818
Posted By coirchoir
And Jerry, thanks for all the input, and good...

And Jerry, thanks for all the input, and good wishes!
Cheers
Forum: Vendor Feedback 06-28-2010, 12:55 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,818
Posted By coirchoir
Gin - I completely agree - on an intuitive level...

Gin - I completely agree - on an intuitive level itself that makes much more sense - I wish I had the confidence to think like that before I chopped off all the roots!
Anyway now I think this will...
Forum: Vendor Feedback 06-28-2010, 06:22 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,818
Posted By coirchoir
Also C&H themselves admitted that there may have...

Also C&H themselves admitted that there may have been something lacking in their instructions on trimming...
no one is "condemning" C&H but just asking for proper clarification.
Thank you for your...
Forum: Vendor Feedback 06-28-2010, 06:19 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,818
Posted By coirchoir
Hi - when I asked "Do you think ALL roots...

Hi -
when I asked "Do you think ALL roots should be trimmed, and do you think they shd be trimmed 3/4 of the way down to the base of the pot? " I was not asking whether ALL TYPES of orchids shd be...
Forum: Vendor Feedback 06-27-2010, 08:30 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,818
Posted By coirchoir
trimming roots

Hi Jerry -
Glad you have a different point of view.
Perhaps we can all learn.
Do you think ALL roots should be trimmed, and do you think they shd be trimmed 3/4 of the way down to the base of the...
Forum: Vendor Feedback 06-27-2010, 03:55 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,818
Posted By coirchoir
Thanks all for the good feedback. Rogerman I...

Thanks all for the good feedback.
Rogerman I have been doing this orchid thing for a few years myself - the only thing I've been successful with has been a sharry baby and that's been enough to take...
Forum: Vendor Feedback 06-27-2010, 07:52 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,818
Posted By coirchoir
Odd experience - Carter/Holmes

Well I have had an odd experience with Carter & Holmes to say the least.
I had ordered 5-6 dugup orchids and a peperomia houseplant to replace a similar plant. The plants arrived, looked beautiful...
Forum: Vendor Feedback 07-25-2008, 08:48 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,792
Posted By coirchoir
C&H Shipping charges refunded!

I finally sent a reminder email telling them I hadn't heard back in a month, and they replied promptly!
And credited me for the extra shipping without a question (since I'd forwarded their original...
Forum: Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance 07-12-2008, 03:13 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 5,851
Posted By coirchoir
Dividing Onc. Sharry baby

I can help, since I have just gone through the process a few months ago, and have since read and think I know what I should and shd not have done:
1st as someone said earlier up here, you shd have...
Forum: Vendor Feedback 06-18-2008, 08:25 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,792
Posted By coirchoir
"Free shipping" misled me

I looked at their website and found some good deals on bare-roots, and opened a shopping cart seeing their bonus (1 for 5) offer; when I went to checkout the free shipping knocked off $17 off my bill...
Forum: Propagation 06-13-2008, 07:58 AM
Replies: 49
Views: 6,997
Posted By coirchoir
Sorry - I messed up that last quote - ""Wet is...

Sorry - I messed up that last quote -
""Wet is too wet and dry is too dry"
Forum: Propagation 06-13-2008, 07:52 AM
Replies: 49
Views: 6,997
Posted By coirchoir
Hi - I had same experience - flask-wise

as a novice, I wish I had orchidaholic's advice the first time - I left mine in soggy sphag moss, but watched out for what was happening, and graduated them in a week to a bed of sphag on coir in a...
Forum: Propagation 05-31-2008, 09:15 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 3,423
Posted By coirchoir
Perhaps I'll try that - I have fine fir bark, but...

Perhaps I'll try that - I have fine fir bark, but no charcoal and pearlite, which I'll have to get.
And thanks for that zygo advice - our house is usually not more than 70-73.
Have been taking a...
Forum: Identification Forum 05-31-2008, 09:07 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,246
Posted By coirchoir
Thank you all for helping me with that - it...

Thank you all for helping me with that - it looked familiar but not being in one of the usual shaped forms that one sees in malls and places I couldn't tell - there are actually a couple of...
Forum: Identification Forum 05-30-2008, 07:49 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,246
Posted By coirchoir
Long stock/long leaf??

Does anyone know what this one might be?
Not details on parentage -
I think picture maybe horizontal
Forum: Propagation 05-29-2008, 09:15 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 3,423
Posted By coirchoir
And Orchiaholic the orchids in your pictures look...

And Orchiaholic the orchids in your pictures look very happy and well cared for - your system seems v. effective
Forum: Propagation 05-29-2008, 09:05 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 3,423
Posted By coirchoir
And they are all sitting inside a zipped plastic...

And they are all sitting inside a zipped plastic bag as shown here
Forum: Propagation 05-29-2008, 08:42 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 3,423
Posted By coirchoir
This is so helpful - basic conclusion: try to be...

This is so helpful - basic conclusion: try to be a discerning orchid grower, rather than use a one size fits all approach -
I am learning a lot more than I knew when I started this (my first...
Forum: Propagation 05-28-2008, 07:10 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,215
Posted By coirchoir
what do y'all think of that water-bath process...

what do y'all think of that water-bath process for the stan seedling quoted in previous message??
Forum: Propagation 05-28-2008, 07:08 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,215
Posted By coirchoir
I'm posting this as an update on where my...

I'm posting this as an update on where my seedlings are -
(also on another compot thread)

Anyway they seem to have survived for a month now, with only about 3 or 4 demises succumbing to root rot...
Forum: Propagation 05-28-2008, 07:03 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 3,423
Posted By coirchoir
I think that sounds like a very fool proof...

I think that sounds like a very fool proof system. How long are your seedlings when you deflask?
Perhaps you give smaller ones some more time to get out of the flask? Some of my stans had full...
Forum: Outdoor Gardening 05-26-2008, 01:32 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 5,290
Posted By coirchoir
Ok - I'll check out all three (I tried the first...

Ok - I'll check out all three (I tried the first and they look to be expensive on the first google link - ~ 75, and sold out too!)
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