[nhorchidguy]

Спасибо! Well, I am not Russian, but I do my best to eat sleep and breathe it! I have studied on my own for about four years when I was in college (my school only offered Spanish, Chinese and Welsh) and then I worked with one teacher until she had her child. I currently found another teacher. I have actually gotten to use it a little bit translating birth documents at the passport office I work in. Eventually I would like to be a Foreign Service Officer helping US citizens abroad (ideally I would like to be in Eastern Europe). So, its for both fun and futire job development. But, in the mean time, I process appliactions for passports. A [i]really[i] cool job I have to say and leaves the weekends free for puttering with my plants. Not just orchids, but broms, succulents (i have a Pachypodium that is going nuts) Euphorbia and I am going to smuggle some Amorphallus from my folks when I am down in DC in Sept (my father is an Amorphallus collector--mostly the classic "Sacred Lily of India" and the "Voodoo Lily"). I am in apartment living for the moment, so EVERYTHING is inside.

As far as growing environments I have three. In the airconditioned bedroom I keep the "Pleuro Collection"...about 9 plants right now but with a few new additions I am looking at 15 in the near future. The Phals, Dends (except for the aphyllum) and Laelia flasks are on metal; racking with fans and in the drier winter months a humidifier. All get around 2500 fc and a nice 75°. The Brassia, aphyllum, Encyclia and are outside right now. The E. stopped blooming and right now has two new pseudobulbs forming and the Brassia has three.

I of course am humbled however by the collection of plants I am sure others have.