Orchid Myths

[Ray]

Originally Posted by Jbyron

I could never understand the idea that keeping the orchid roots tight in their pot was a benefit. If that is so, how do they live in the wild without a pot?

I think what they really want to say is don't let the roots stay wet. By keeping the roots tight there is little room for media of any type around the roots. That lets the water run through the pot easily and the roots can dry quickly. Doesn't that make more sense?

On the first part - which I have argued many times myself - I would bet that's a bastardization of the fact that plants like to be well-established and firmly secured in a pot before they will comfortably bloom.

As is demonstrated so well by semi-hydro culture, roots staying wet is not a problem in the least if the plant is attuned to it.

[Des]

Magnus my ancestorts on my grandmothers side are Swedish . I have often wondered why some of my family including myself, are so rotund ,until I saw pics of our swedish family and they all look like beach balls ! So nowadays we call it the swedish connection when anyone asks.

[Des]

C'mon folks here I am trying to coax myths out of you , because trying to watch TV tonight is useless all the films are repeats and the news is all about the elections in the States and the credit crunch.... It is enough to make you want to jump off something............... no not really

[Des]

Ah well, let me me have one for the road after that I will most probably fall off my perch and have to crawl to bed,
OOh I should not have said that so loudly they are not supposed to know that Granpa likes that stuff in the brown bottle so I can only have some after 10 at night, or I will have to sleep with the dog outside for a few days ,
Fool what am I saying I'M TYPING THIS!!!

[Swamper]

Des is that bottle open already???

[Des]

Yes but it is only root beer

[camille1585]

Ramon, I heard the the same thing, but about plants in general. There's an old wives tale in France that says that having plants in your bedroom at night is dangerous since they take in O2 and release CO2. There are stories of people being suffocated/CO2 poisoned by their plants that way! I have all 30 of my babies in my room whe I sleep(I have a studio student room), and I'm alive and well!

Originally Posted by Des

Yes but it is only root beer

Only root beer? I just had some nice Guinness beers at the pub tonight. Actually, I think I had a few too many, I'm seeing 3 computer screens and nearly fell off my bike on the way home. Time to call it a night!

[Des]

root beer?:loll: I just had some nice Guinness beers at the pub tonight. Actually, I think I had a few too many, I'm seeing 3 computer screens and nearly fell off my bike on the way home. Time to call it a night![/QUOTE]

Life is not fair, I am not allowed to have the real stuff cause I am diabetic and makes my blood sugar so high my blood monitor plays "Mary had a little lamb " and my wife comes running to see whats up !!
You guys, I must warn you I am Emailing this thread to Father Xmas, and some of you will have empty stockings this year ........orchids......wearing glasses.........indeed
Mind you I think I wont be getting much myself this year ...... I farted in church.................I thought it was going to be one of those quite ones.............. But it so loud ........... and it happened just at the exact moment when you could hear a pin drop..............my timing was perfect ............talk about feeling like the nucleus in an atom......never thought folks could slide their bums on the pews that fast!!...........my wife has not been talking to me for a few days.......... no, she did say goodnight once as I was making my way to the dog kennel but I think that was just a reflex action........................ anyways I just wish the dog will stop licking my face when we sleep together.......
I suppose I have been a naughty boy, I was dreaming a few nights back.................. that I was being chased by a bull ..................and just as he was going trample me ................... I woke up .............. With a horn in my hand ................. My wife woke up too and said what is that dear it looks dangerous you had better put it away.............. so I have had it stuffed and it hangs above the fireplace
Folks this thread is about myths come on !!

[orchids3]

Have heard that asperine cures orchid ailments algae and fungus? Is it true or false?

[Intruder]

And.... what about urea assimilation???