On Jun 6, 3:08 pm, "Scott Vita" <sfv...@yahoo.com> wrote: "Zelix" <zelichan200...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ca71d920-cb38-4f50-afec-6d7609e54832@z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... My post was spot on. You were talking about G.B. well.. that's how it is there, pal. Nanny state. You were babbling about "everyone learning kung-fu" or some such nonsense. Now it's "nanny
Thanks for all the great comments. Seems I have lots of work to do. Vito "Wendy7" <nospam@this.com> wrote in message news:1gYWj.23413$3i3.13830@newsfe14.phx... I forgot to mention Uncle Vito, your initial query on humidity. If I had to do it again, & no existing concrete slab, I would put heavy duty plastic weed liner down (it breathes) then crushed brick. Building suppliers
Dear Uncle Vito, Yes a greenhouse here in S.Calif., will certainly give you some humidity. I will say this first, the cost of the g/h is nothing, it's all the equipment inside needed to simulate a decent environment to grow plants that costs. We live about halfway between LA & San Diego, 7 miles from the coast so do get a little sea breeze. Anyway, I have "opaque" polycarb
Tenman wrote (in part): What is commonly missed is that these plants neeed a good deal of water. They don't like to stay wet, but they still need the water.. I think the "don't like to stay wet" part of our knowledge of orchid-growing comes from suffocating the roots in insufficiently airy media, and not from too much water, per se. Taking a clip from The Baker's orchidculture.com
Uncle_vito wrote: I have some cattleyas that are basically potted in air (the plants are in a pot and the roots are bare with no media). How do you water these? Do you soak the roots for a few minutes or do you just spash the roots with water? I have been soaking the roots for a few minutes when I have time, other times I pour water over them and it immediately drains out.
