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stonedragonfarms 12-02-2009 12:22 AM

Panoramic view...lots of green
 
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Howard et al...here's a sort of cobbled together view of the South wall of the gh. There are about 40 pots in some stage of spike at this point in time...staking season has just begun; at this point in time individual spikes on plants are, for the most part, hard to distinguish...
Adam

PS: I've started to photocatalog what's in spike, I'll post them (and update) as time permits--there's an album under my user name.

RenéeS 12-02-2009 04:26 AM

That should be quite a sight when they're all in bloom! Don't hesitate to post a pic of that too :p

smweaver 12-02-2009 06:02 AM

Adam, those are beautiful plants--and that set-up looks like it could easily be considered a slug's idea of paradise if you're not careful. Do your plants stay in the greenhouse all year, or do you shuttle some of them outdoors during the one or two warm months that you guys experience in Michigan? Very nice collection of cymbidiums you have.

Steve

Ross 12-02-2009 08:40 AM

Good display Adam. Here's hoping the temps stay a bit more moderate and your propane bill is down a bit!

stonedragonfarms 12-02-2009 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by smweaver (Post 275952)
Adam, those are beautiful plants--and that set-up looks like it could easily be considered a slug's idea of paradise if you're not careful. Do your plants stay in the greenhouse all year, or do you shuttle some of them outdoors during the one or two warm months that you guys experience in Michigan? Very nice collection of cymbidiums you have.

Steve

I treat regularly for slugs with a pelletized bait (and any that I come across I either squish or toss out into the snow...) All of my cymbids except for a couple of species and a couple madidum crosses go outside mid May and come back in mid October; eventually I think that I will probably look at building a shade house adjacent to my gh so I won't have to move them so far...
Adam

stonedragonfarms 12-02-2009 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Ross (Post 275967)
Good display Adam. Here's hoping the temps stay a bit more moderate and your propane bill is down a bit!

That would be good, though my LP contract this year is 80 cents a gallon lower than last year...hopefully oil prices remain low into the near future; less spent on heat=more orchids :biggrin:


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