[OGD] orchid growing out habits

2006-01-06 Thread Jim Pyrzynski
Peter O'Byrne comments about Phrag besseae growing habits could be applied to a number of orchids and not all of them are Phrags - try some Oncidiums, Brassias, Laelia's, Masdevallias, etc. In some cases mounting helps but if you have trouble with mounts (growing in the home) then what to do? I had

[OGD] orchid growing out habits

2006-01-06 Thread Peter O'Byrne
Jim Pyrzynski asked about growing long-rhizome plants in plastic guttering: "Convert some relatively long, narrow (and probably shallow) device to a growing container and grow the plant at an angle to accomodate its habit. One container that comes to mind are gutters for houses - if you use the pl

Re: [OGD] orchid growing out habits

2006-01-06 Thread Monica L Jones
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 03:33:27 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In some cases mounting helps but if > you have trouble with mounts (growing in the home) then what to do? > I had an idea recently and wondered if anybody had tried it. I had the > problem crop up with P. schlimii and after dividing