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Originally Posted by MattWoelfsen
Even serious orchid growers and orchid technologist can demonstrate a fine sense of humor! LOL!
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Why everyone don get: serious as a heart attack and celebrating humor are NEVER MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. In fact, for me, the latter, when organic, augments the former....and I still don mean anything breast related!!!!
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Originally Posted by stonedragonfarms
Indoors with augmentation (automated misting system, led lighting, circulation fans) & greenhouse; eventually it will hopefully be all greenhouse. I just need to get my butt in gear and erect a bigger greenhouse (not to mention find a bigger lot to build on :/ )
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Wow! I feel so much more NORMAL!
It just struck me, I should have mentioned right off, when making this pol,l I naturally included the multiple choice option for anyone who qualifies in more than one category. Bettah late than nevah.
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Hi.
To illustrate the intensity of my yearning for an “outdoors” back when I was at the zenith of my addiction, I just made a pic and will put it up. I am way better now than once! I mean it.
What I did (OMG), was, in my smaller growing area in my dinette, I (deep breath) drilled some holes in the BRICK OUTSIDE the window with my good masonry bits…..yep, to screw in hooks to hang a couple of select plants needing uber light I just could not grow well indoors.
I got caught by someone looking up from across the street, seeing two of the plants in question hanging happily. I live only on the 6th floor, so, getting caught was inevitable. But obsession drives you to live….on the EDGE.
Violated around a thousand laws….forget our insurance liability (or even criminal) should one of those big clay pots, well, have fallen down and hit an innocent pedestrian.
Course, the hooks were (still are) perfectly installed and I used really good orchid hangers. Come on…..who was I kidding? This was off the hook (pun intended) TERRIBLE! But this is what addiction to growing orchids can foster!
Note: We are responsible for all the vegetation outside our building. We choose London Plane trees (deciduous), I am told, did from the Get in 1931…..very expensive, but very hardy and lovely (once in a while one needs removing and replacing with a baby one) especially good for urban settings given their shallow roots…..but, all of them have anthracnose. And, incredibly, that means nothing, they grow really well and we have them tended by our arborists.
You can see one in the pic…..well, the top of one of our 7. I am lucky given they never really grow up to my windows….where they would cost me orchid growing light. Tho I once feared that and envisioned renting some device I could use out the windows to PRUNE THEM should they grow to threaten my orchid growing light! I am not making that up.
We plant annuals around their bases every spring, keep the soil we plant them in healthy and rich with organic material so they get the nourishment they need.
Hybrid Mode
