My Latest Closet Setup

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For those of you who remember, when I started growing orchids back in like 2010, I first started growing under lights in my closet. Life has had it's ups and some pretty big downs (I lost all my plants besides a flask when I moved to my current place), but I am starting to rebound! I moved December of 2014, and fall of 2015 a wonderful friend sent some plants through the mail for me to restart my collection. I had them in a fishtank on top of my dresser which sat in front of a south facing window. Then I finally deflasked a cross I had made like in 2013, and bought a plastic stand and put a single 2' bulb and a fan for them. Now they're inside my massive, 8' raised closet, but I guess I can share pictures for those.

I have one fan going 24/7, and the other fan plus the lights on a timer for 13h/day. For lights I have three 4' Sunblaster ballasts, with one of each 2700K, 6400K, and 10000K spectrum bulbs.
New closet growing space. Oct 2nd, 2016 by TheBlazingAugust, on Flickr

The tray and egg crate beneath all the plants is divided into four 'sections'. The right two here have some non-orchid plants that I started before I bought some more recently at the first Sask. Orchid Society meeting of the year. In the circular pots I have some Mimosa, two types of hybrid petunias, and a hybrid pansy. The square pots have some wild viola starting in there. There's also a NoID (which I usually don't grow) that my boyfriend bought for me as a gift, and a Phrag, which is a first try for me. I just recently switched to pursue a B.M.A. in Horticulture Science, so I decided I should branch out and grow and learn of other plants.
Assorted annuals and low light plants. Oct 2nd, 2016. by TheBlazingAugust, on Flickr

Here is a section that I raised with some empty solo cups and egg crate for the plants that need a bit more light. I used to be a bit of a snob and only grow Phals, but after realising that it can be near impossible at times to get keikis from them to trade, I decided to open myself up to other types, and a gracious friend from my orchid society gifted me four divisions.
High light plants. Oct 2nd, 2016. by TheBlazingAugust, on Flickr

Here is most of my Phals plus some succulent leaves that I'm trying to get started for some friends and a random herbaceous plant.
More low lights and misc. Oct 2nd, 2016. by TheBlazingAugust, on Flickr

And finally, a compot of my own cross I set back in early 2013. I had received a small flask plus a compot from the guy who did the flasking, but those I lost in the move. Thankfully I had kept the larger flask sealed for a time I knew they would survive. So they ended up being a bit scraggly from the low light and being cramped, but they've really started to rev up over the last few months.
My seedlings. Oct 2nd, 2016. by TheBlazingAugust, on Flickr

So here I am, alive and as passionate for orchids as I've always been. I'm hoping I can pick up some more smaller divisions and such from my orchid society, and if need be I can kick the annuals back out to the plastic stand to open up some room.