[OGD] Re: Orchids Digest, Vol 7, Issue 210

2005-04-16 Thread Juba
Viateur wrote: > You wrote : "CITES ... making it harder to trade plants ... it hinders the > trade both of illegal AND legal plants through a horrible bureaucracy..." > Are you in favor of the trade of illegal plants ? Of course not. But artificially propagated plants should not be put in the ca

[OGD] Re:Alcohool_DrugsandOrchids

2005-04-15 Thread Juba
Most everyone in this list is familiar with the Prohibition back in the 20´s in the USA. Some very pious church ladies persuaded their politician husbands to pass a law banning the sale of all forms of alcohoolic drinks in the USA. We all know the results: people drank like never before, illegal t

[OGD] Re: CocoChips

2005-03-29 Thread Juba
Gary states that his CHC (coco husk chips) degrades within a year(???). I wonder what kind of treatment/climate/coco chips he is using . I am using a mix of coco chips and expanded clay on all my plants ( catts,phals, dends, cymbs, oncinds etc.) , some being in the same pot for almost 4 years and t

[OGD] Re: Orchid Escapees

2005-01-19 Thread Juba
Here in my native Recife, Brazil, Renanthera grew all over the place on old mango, flamboyant and other trees. Now with all the building going on, they are disapearing fast. A new category : endangered escapee species?? Also on a trip to the southern state of Santa Catarina 15 years ago, I saw a h

[OGD] Re: ORCHIDS IN FLASK

2005-01-03 Thread Juba
I would like to know peoples experience buying orchids in flask either in the US or from Asia. From internet searches, the prices from Asia, specially from Thailand seems unbeatable. However imnporting them to the US, it seem to me, fairly complicated. I´d like to ask people to comment about your e

[OGD] Re:CLabiataDaylength

2004-12-13 Thread Juba
Cattleya labiatas are native to Northeast Brazil, roughly from about 3 to 9 o South latitudes, and at 500 to 1000 m elevations. Such low latitudes means that daylength varies little - from about 11.5 hours in the winter to 12.5 hours in the summer . Amazingly , most of the labiatas in nature , and

[OGD] Re: Orchids Digest, Vol 6, Issue 33

2004-12-11 Thread Juba
I want to thank Dennis Weaver because he said exactly what I wanted to say, only better. > Orchids provide one of the most elegant examples of evolution, etc. I´m from Brazil, and have lived on and off for 10 years in the US, I am a Baptist as a result of American Baptists Misionary work in my cou