Re: [OGD] Tsunami ecology

Hello Jerry, Viateur, and Peter, Thank you for your responses about Tsunami effects on the local environment and orchid populations. I have been away the past week, so I am sorry about responding so late. I will cherish my two little paph. niveums even more (they are in flower at the moment).

Re: [OGD] Re: EC TDS

Thanks for your thoughts on this, Mark. I quite agree that my original query will likely not be fully answered, and I really wasn't trying to create this much discussion! I have to challenge a couple of your comments, though, as much for my own education as anything: (This one is probably

[OGD] hybrid escapes

Bernard C. Gerrard asked: Are there other man-made orchid hybrid escapes established in the wild? 1) in Rabaul (East New Britain, PNG) it's environs, an astonishing range of Dendrobium section Spatulata hybrids used to be naturalised. I don't know how many of them (if any) survived the Sept

[OGD] more on Dendrobium schulleri (Peter O'Byrne)

Hi Peter From your email below I take it then the photo by Cribb of D schulleri as reproduced in De Vogels CD 'Orchids of New Guinea Vol 2' should be treated with scepticism ? regards Steven Kami Message: 1 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:05:41 +0800 From: Peter O'Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[OGD] Phals on Cork

Charles answered the question thusly: I have a phal honghenensis that is mounted on the firm type of tree fern, and as you described above, the roots do not attach to the mount at all. I have two phal parishii, both were on cork with a bit of moss, and one grew so-so and the other is holding on.

[OGD] EC vs TDS vs Common Sense

I have read all those heated discussions on EC TDS and wondered if I was experiencing a resurrection of medieval philosophers arguing about how many angles can dance on the head of a pin. Do orchids possess EC meters that tell them when to burn their roots? Can conductivity distinguish

[OGD] Re: EC TDS

Ray wrote: (This one is probably semantic) Seems to me that an EC meter is measuring the conductivity of a solution, not of the components of it, per se. Maybe true salts affect the conductivity more than other minerals, but they are all involved in the solution conductivity to some degree.