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10-29-2006, 04:15 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
Age: 26
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Post your outdoor setups
I'm trying to figure out a good outdoor growing setup, and I'd love to see some examples. My biggest concern is figuring out a way to keep plants from getting knocked over by the wind.
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11-04-2006, 10:07 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Maine
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Hey Tony,
Here's my outdoor set-up, for a small number of pleiones and alpines, and local tree seedlings and such. There is a cold frame for harsher weather protection. And the bench has a canopy so I can drape a tarp over it when it rains.
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11-04-2006, 11:01 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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Hey nice outdoor setup ospy what you got in the humidity box/mini greenhouse?
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11-05-2006, 05:50 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Maine
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Hey, thanks Marco,
the coldframe contents vary a lot, right now sleepy pleiones and mini hostas, seedling red maples, a gentian, and a mountain sandwort.
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11-05-2006, 08:49 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Location: Spring Hill, FL
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Mine are on a number of baker's racks around the lanai with the mounted ones hanging...for now 
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Susanne B
"It is difficult to give away kindness.
It keeps coming back to you"
~~ Cort Flint
Leave your egos at the door...
Jungle Hobbies, anyone? http://www.junglehobbies.com/cb977
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11-05-2006, 09:13 PM
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Roots are good
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Zone: 5a
Location: Cadillac, Michigan, USA
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Lanai... now let me guess, if I have to ask I can't afford one or it wouldn't work in Cadillac  ?
I'm really jealous of your setup. No, really, I am mostly jealous of the pool! 
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Ross
http://orchids-ross.blogspot.com/
I don't do most Dendros or large, "floofy orchids". For me it's minis (like Angraecoides), Paphs, and others that crept in somewhere along the line. See my orchid list for complete collection (usually not current.)
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11-05-2006, 09:16 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Location: Spring Hill, FL
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He-he...the lanai is the porch area in the back of the house with the pool cage attached. makes it like being outdoors without actually being in the intense heat and not as many bugs
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Susanne B
"It is difficult to give away kindness.
It keeps coming back to you"
~~ Cort Flint
Leave your egos at the door...
Jungle Hobbies, anyone? http://www.junglehobbies.com/cb977
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11-05-2006, 09:18 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Maine
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Lanai, wow, I'm deeply envious of your set-up, the pool itself must help the humidity too.
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11-05-2006, 10:19 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Zone: 9b
Location: Central Florida
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Your main concern should be a northeasterly wind being in Palm Beach. If you got a taste of the last few days winds being on the east coast this weekend they were coming out of the north northeast up to 30 mph, this weekend should have been a good barometer as to which area's are protect. A simple tissue on a stick placed in a pot and stragically placed will help you determine which area's will be the most protected.
Your home surrounded by trees? or is it one built within a community where trees are few and far between, hopefully a few trees will warrant great protection for you.
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"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going - it's as simple as that" - Earl Nightingale
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11-06-2006, 09:33 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Central Florida
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Mine
Here are a few pics of my shaderoom. The first few are after construction and the last one is full of orchids. It is basically a pergola with shadecloth on top and hanging down one side for the afternoon sun.
http://www.orchidboard.com/community.../shaderoom.JPG
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I'll find room for it!!!! :idea: I just make the shaderoom bigger, what is another 12 feet??? :banana:
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