DUH!!! - Page 7 - Orchid Board

Amanda L · #1 05-27-2011, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by RJSquirrel

ack I bought some peanuts today .you know the ones you put down in the bottom of the pots. Well I didnt pay any attention to what kind of peanuts they were.Peanuts are peanuts right?

WRONG...I put a few down in the bottom of a plant I was re building. Stacked some peanuts up in the bottom. Carefully laid my plant in the pot. Watered it in a little bit. My plant fell over right away..Hmmm..Damn peanuts freeking melted..
DUH thats what BIO DEGRADEABLE means!!! Potato starch peanuts dont last very long in clay..heh..

Beware the green packing peanuts!! Well, for orchid pots anyway. The earth loves them!

GardenTheater · #2 05-27-2011, 07:49 PM

I was trying to tie a phal spike to grow in the direction I wanted. I broke it off...ugh. Then it sent up another spike and I tried to control it again and heard a slight rip sound. That one seems ok and I'm letting it grow wherever it wants to. Looks like I need to read more of the phal abuse posts.

Amanda L · #3 05-27-2011, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by GardenTheater

I was trying to tie a phal spike to grow in the direction I wanted. I broke it off...ugh. Then it sent up another spike and I tried to control it again and heard a slight rip sound. That one seems ok and I'm letting it grow wherever it wants to. Looks like I need to read more of the phal abuse posts.

Sorry to hear that you broke a spike. I'm glad the other one is doing okay!

Call_Me_Bob · #4 05-27-2011, 08:38 PM

pot your chids, feed your chids, feed yourself!

GardenTheater · #5 05-28-2011, 11:41 AM

Thanks Amanda. It's hard when you break a spike.
On the peanut topic..... Curiosity got the better of me

and I did taste a corn packing peanut. It tasted a lot like the puffed corn they sell at the grocery store. Maybe it's the same stuff.

Amanda L · #6 05-28-2011, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by GardenTheater

Thanks Amanda. It's hard when you break a spike.
On the peanut topic..... Curiosity got the better of me

and I did taste a corn packing peanut. It tasted a lot like the puffed corn they sell at the grocery store. Maybe it's the same stuff.

It is tough to break a spike. All that hard work gone to waste. But, there will be other spikes and we learn from our mistakes.

Well, if we run out of snacks we can eat the biodegradable packing peanuts!!

GardenTheater · #7 05-28-2011, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Amanda L

It is tough to break a spike. All that hard work gone to waste. But, there will be other spikes and we learn from our mistakes.

Well, if we run out of snacks we can eat the biodegradable packing peanuts!!

Just add salt.

mujacko2002 · #8 09-08-2011, 08:22 AM

Mabuhay!

Its better to break off a spike rather than breaking off a new lead or a sprouting new leaf. That will be super DUH for me. I hate it.

AnonYMouse · #9 10-24-2013, 03:43 PM

Gah!

Why is my cool grower on a heat mat?

RosieC · #10 10-25-2013, 02:20 AM

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Originally Posted by AnonYMouse

Gah!

Why is my cool grower on a heat mat?

That's the sort of thing I would do.

What I actually did recently is carefully group together a large batch of keikis that don't want fertiliser over the winter. Then early one morning when watering on auto-pilot I fertilised the whole lot of them.