Inherited greenhouse_what to do

[My Green Pets]

Sorry me again demanding photos. Could you take one of the whole greenhouse from the outside and inside? Seeing all these individual pieces of the puzzle has got me so curious!

[K.C.]

It looks like you have the room to do this. Just put a pot along side of the overgrown orchid and fill with what ever you are using.

[Klueless_Kristie]

Hi hi :-) I will take some inside and outside photos :-) I know how it is to b curious when u only get snippets of info :-).

In the meantime can some tell me what type of orchid this is as I just found it upside down in pot at back of greenhouse. It's now out of its medium (no loss it was terrible) but I don't know how to pot or what medium to use

Thanks :-)

[Polarizeme]

It's kind of hard to tell with the small leaves, but maybe an Oncidium type?

I'd pot it in a bark mix. Most plants with Pseudo bulbs like a well draining mix

[Klueless_Kristie]

Originally Posted by CambriaWhat

Sorry me again demanding photos. Could you take one of the whole greenhouse from the outside and inside? Seeing all these individual pieces of the puzzle has got me so curious!

Hi again :-) as requested I have taken photos of greenhouse but I realise I should have taken a before and after :-(

well I'm proud of our efforts, my partner has cleaned the 6ft high grass and taken out concrete poles, pipes, logs n other clutter that was on the ground. We found a brick path under it all lol.

finally in the last week the 5-6 spiders the size of my palm that were living inside have finally gotten sick of rebuilding their webs n relocated yayay no more crazy spider web dances from me :-p

[Klueless_Kristie]

Inside.....note there really is a brick path lol

[Klueless_Kristie]

This is the western side of the greenhouse/bush house :-)

to give u an idea when we first started out this one shelf had 45 orchid pots 200mm each pushed together all touching sitting on this bench. All were in different stages of neglect and all have either fungus disease or root rot.

Now I only have these 11 left to repot + 2 hanging stanhopeas.

There were also approx 10 pots on bottom shelf underneath these ones that were all dead orchids with completely desiccated orchids. Their bulbs just fell apart in my fingers. I let them all go in a fiery blaze lol.

[Klueless_Kristie]

As u can see its in progress and any tips anyone has about changes I can make, please suggest away.

i found several large pieces of glass covered under eons of dirt so I was thinking of placing them some where to create a humid area for growing the orchids the need higher humidity..... Hmmmm but not sure, so suggestions on glass use would be wonderful.

Also the shade cloth was apparently put up by grandad in late 70s early 80s so it is really damaged and not really doing its best lol but typical grandad had another roll sitting in his workshop that he brought late 90s but for health reasons he didn't get around to re-covering the greenhouse. So that is on the to do list shortly.

Tomorrow my partner and I are having an autum clean of the greenhouse so we plan on taking out all the orchids ..... Ant/cockroach/spider bombing the whole area, scribing the shelves with bleach, and cleaning the floors so that the area is finally sanitised :-)

Hope I haven't talked on too long and hope this satiates the curiosity...... But only for a little while CID there's much much more to come :-)

[Klueless_Kristie]

Oops almost forgot I have new blooming orchids :-) all the plants I repotted a couple of weeks ago have just started growing like no ones business :-) now there are about 10 + with flower spikes growing :-) soooo exciting.

Would love help with IDs if this is possible

[Klueless_Kristie]

And another :-)