[OGD] Re: foliar spray fertilizers

2005-08-02 Thread PainterArt
mickinmontana asked: "Have we visited this topic recently?Sorry but I didn't use foliar spray until recently [WONDER GROW]. Believe I've read that plants can't utilize organic nitrogen, until it is broken down by bacteria & fungi in the soil/compost. " This is a myth. When you say organic nitr

[OGD] Request for missing OGD issue . . .

2005-08-02 Thread StanHopi
Hello List Members, In moving my recently saved OGD digests to disc I have managed to lose Orchids Digest, Vol 7, Issue 336 If anyone still has this issue of the Digest and can forward it to me I would be muchly appreciative. PS- Bienvenido a Martín de Finca Arroz, Puriscal - Hola a Batboy adem

[OGD] V 7, #367, Conservation Efforts

2005-08-02 Thread SlipperGuy
Nicholas Plummer makes a valid point of the potential of relocating plants which are being destroyed by the bulldozer. Unfortunately, who is to do it? And can that many plants be reintroduced or moved to safe ground? When it can be done, it is done - as Tom has relayed to me on a couple of oc

[OGD] Masdevallia tuerckheimii Ames

2005-08-02 Thread Charles Baker
Iris recently asked about the warmth tolerance of Masdevallia tuerckheimii. In the original description (Ames, O. [1908] 1982. Orchidaceae, fasc. 2. (Pg. 265-266) Merrymount Press, Boston. Reprint, Twin Oaks Books, Greenfield, Wis. Ames, O. 1912. Phil. J. Sci 7: 18.) Ames described the type specime

[OGD] Foliar Feeding

2005-08-02 Thread BCPRESS
I had a problem comprehending what OGDers expect of "foliar feeding" but was reluctant to weigh in to the subject out of deference to blaspheming the mystic beliefs of devotees of the art.  Leo's post [OGD V7 #369, Message 5] says it all. The concept of "foliar feeding" is based on t

[OGD] Re: Masd. floribunda ssp. tuerckheimii

2005-08-02 Thread IrisCohen
In a message dated 8/2/05 6:03:47 AM, Viateur writes: Which reference ? Somewhere on the Web. Don't have time to look it up again. <> That's about 2 m. above high tide at the seashore. LOL. Should be plenty warm. Thanks. Iris ___ the OrchidGuide Digest

[OGD] Conservation

2005-08-02 Thread Tony Watkinson
objective. The url below will take you to a presentation that I made to the Orchid Safari group in November 2003. This conservation effort is ongoing each year until the bulldozers move in. http://www.orchidtrek.com/aussie/aussieconservation.html Tony