Re: [OGD] warm water shocks roots ?

I've got some scientific data on this coming. What I consider warm is around the temperature of our hands (95-100'F). Realize that anything colder than that seems cool to us. However, what temperature do you grow your plant? Probably not at 98.6'F. For most of us that would shock our plants or for

Re: [OGD] Angraecum sesquipedale blooming season

I had/have one (bought in the early '90s, and now in our college greenhouse) that used to flower in the summer. A few years ago, it switched over to flowering in the winter (roughly November-December). I bought it at an unusual place - a garden center in the Twin Cities. It was there along wi

[OGD] Angraecum sesquipedale blooming season

I have an Angraecum sesquipedale seedling that is in bud for the first time, and at the rate the bud is developing, it will probably flower in late March. I had been under the impression that A. sesquipedale blooms in December, but I also have a vague recollection of reading that there may be

Re: [OGD] rhs website orchid search ?

Wildcatt, updated through August, shows Phal. lindenii used as a parent in 26 primary crosses - 23 with phals, one each with kingidium, doritis, and cleisocentron:   Phal lindenii (pollen) X Clctn trichromum = Clnps Pinky  1990Phal lindenii (pod) X Dor pulcherrima = Dtps Asahi  1923Phal lind

[OGD] Shade Cloth

One of our local growers, before he retired from orchids, used aluminet (or similar) that was set to automatically be pulled across the top (inside) of the greenhouse based on temperature. The idea was that if the temperature rose above some point (adjustable), the sun was likely out in full force

[OGD] rhs website orchid search ?

Hello everyone, I was trying to use the RHS Orchids website to find out how many hybrids were made with certain phal species and what names they might have, just by typing in the species name into the text input box. If I typed in 'lindenii' in the seed parent box (doing a parent search) I would

[OGD] phal primary hybrids pics and names

Hello everyone, I have a few plants flowering some that I will probably self-pollinate, but I was curious about the possibilities of recreating some primary hybrids. Of the plants I searched the net and the RHS orchid database, there are some that I was either not able to find pictures for, or no