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06-05-2007, 05:16 PM
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Dendrobium aberrans
Hate to say it folks, but I have been successful with two Dendrobiums (after killing off many.) The first is superbum (anosmum) and now this one - aberrans. Since I just love minis, this was a natural and I have three plants of this little guy.
 The pot in this picture is 2" wide. Sorry for the "blown out" whites, but this little guy is really tough to photograph. Yes, that's another spike on the left. I understand these guys are in pretty-much constant bloom like Haraella's.
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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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06-05-2007, 06:41 PM
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Is this any better for the blossom?
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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.)
Last edited by Ross : 01-24-2008 at 04:56 PM.
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06-05-2007, 06:55 PM
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 Ross, aberrans is one of my absolute favorites! Thanks for sharing
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06-05-2007, 07:10 PM
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Am I off-the-hook as "Dendrobium Killer?"
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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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06-05-2007, 08:16 PM
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I've told you all along that you could do it!
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06-05-2007, 10:21 PM
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Go Ross Go Ross! 
Cute little plant .. 
What is your medium and the magic behind it's survival?
I could use a little advice for my dend. laevifolium.
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06-06-2007, 01:27 AM
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Very nice Ross
This is my favorite Dendrobium too and now I've got two of them already. First one is growing something in middle of the leaves ???
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06-06-2007, 01:34 AM
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Woooohooooo!!!!! Congrats on growing the Den's! The flowers are soo pretty! Way to go Ross! 
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06-06-2007, 08:11 AM
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Ross, great plant. If you have photoshop cs2 or cs3, you can fix "blown out whites" in about two seconds using the shadows/highlights command in the image/adjustments menu. (for safety, use a duplicate layer so that you don't accidentally destroy your image)
the settings I use are tonal width 20, radius 30 pixels, and color correction +20, midtone contrast 0, black clip 0.01, white clip 0.01.
the strength of the effect I titrate to how much tweaking is needed. but in essence, by increasing the strength of the "shadows" slider, you're lightening dark areas, and by increasing the strength of the "highlights" slider you're darkening bright areas. so increasing the shadows slider is good for when you have details lost in puddles of black, but the highlights slider is good for when you blow out the whites. it leaves the midtones alone.
of course, you could get the same effect using the curves command, but I think it's a little harder.
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06-06-2007, 08:19 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ScottMcC
Ross, great plant. If you have photoshop cs2 or cs3, you can fix "blown out whites" in about two seconds using the shadows/highlights command in the image/adjustments menu. (for safety, use a duplicate layer so that you don't accidentally destroy your image)
the settings I use are tonal width 20, radius 30 pixels, and color correction +20, midtone contrast 0, black clip 0.01, white clip 0.01.
the strength of the effect I titrate to how much tweaking is needed. but in essence, by increasing the strength of the "shadows" slider, you're lightening dark areas, and by increasing the strength of the "highlights" slider you're darkening bright areas. so increasing the shadows slider is good for when you have details lost in puddles of black, but the highlights slider is good for when you blow out the whites. it leaves the midtones alone.
of course, you could get the same effect using the curves command, but I think it's a little harder.
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Thanks Scott, I'll try that later today.
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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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