[OGD] Attending the World Orchid Conference?

You should know there are two orchid events happening in Miami this weekend. The WOC begins tomorrow and runs thru Sunday and the Tamiami Orchid Festival runs Friday thru Sunday. Several larger vendors will be at both events and Tamiami will offer more boutique-sized vendors and an impressive li

Re: [OGD] Orchids Digest, Vol 10, Issue 23

For Roger in Bangkok I would suggest you take your flask to the Chao Praya nursery and ask Rungnapa to deflask and plant out your seedlings. Then it will be done right and you will save yourself considerable worry. David Grove **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in

Re: [OGD] deflasking question

Roger, The advice I follow with great results is from Bob & Lynn Wellenstein at AnTec Laboratory, the URL for their information page on deflasking orchids is below. This information is specifically related to Paphiopedilum orchids, but I use it for all Orchids I de-flask and it works great

[OGD] Deflasking and Phal micro fungus/Neem oil damage

My track record with Cattleya is absolutely terrible, so I am very open to suggestions ... media ... hardening ... successful voodoo incantations ... anything and everything:-)) Regards/Roger, in Bangkok Roger, I lost every flask I tried for 40 years to damp off. Probably too lazy to do

Re: [OGD] Deflasking and Phal micro fungus/Neem oil damage

Cynthia, I have successfully eliminated damping-off issues with somewhat gentler means - a water extract of cinnamon. For a combo insecticide/fungicide, I do the extraction with isopropyl alcohol, but for defalsked seedlings, where insect infestation is no issue, the cinnamaldehyde/water solution