[OGD] Phallies

2005-12-05 Thread Colin.Hamilton
Hi Ron I feel your mate has been fed some bovine excrement !! I have moved phallies around to get the flower spikes to a better position. They didn't stop growing Cheers Colin Hamilton Webmaster Australian Orchid Council/"OrchidsAustralia" Rockhampton, Qld. Australia www.orchidsaustralia.com The

Re: [OGD] Orchids Digest, Vol 7, Issue 511

2005-12-05 Thread First Rays
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Re: [OGD] Direction of leaves

2005-12-05 Thread Blue Moon Exotics
We grow our specimen Phals in slatted baskets with a minimum of media, to start we hang the basket in the tradtional horizontal position then once they are well rooted on we hang it on it's side so the plant is oriented as in nature to reduce the water standing in the crown. Sometimes when we flip

Re: [OGD] Paph barbatum

2005-12-05 Thread IrisCohen
In a message dated 12/5/05 6:03:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Who has a Paph barbatum in their collection from a tissue cultured source?? I didn't know you could tissue-culture paphs at all in commercial quantities. I have a Paph. barbatum var. nigritum which came from Bosche Popow. It was sold

[OGD] Direction of leaves

2005-12-05 Thread Buzz Baxter
Phals do not care what direction their leaves are facing. We've grown hundreds of thousands of these things and have tried all of the hokis pokis and most of it is untrue. Buzz Windsong Orchids ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.

Re: [OGD] Orchids Digest, Vol 7, Issue 511

2005-12-05 Thread Gustaaf R. M�hlmann
Hi listmembers, If species A is crossed with species B where A is the mother/seed plant and B is the father/pollen plant, and the child C has the Grex name Gustavianum If the seed and pollen plants A and B are now interchanged in the crossing such that: B is now the mother/seed plant and A t