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From: Nathaniel Green
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Buying orchids.
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008

Only criticism of regal is that there eBay business sent me an orchid
rattling round a big box with a small bottle or fertiliser lose smashing
into the orchid and the only protection the orchid had was a sheet of tissue
paper. As for there main land business they kept me waiting 8 weeks with no
contact , so I had to keep phoning and then they said the plant was not in
stock, so sent me my money back and a vouchers for free P&P. I would use
them again, but not at present as they have no plants I want.

From: Tricia Garner
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: Silent Auction
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008

Bids are written down, either on a sheet of paper near the item or as
sealed bids. At the predetermined end of the auction the highest bidder
pays the price he or she submitted. Only the bids are not vocalised -
plenty of talking usually goes on!

From: Roger Grier
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Marks, Laelia. and Phal Luddemania
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008

From: Roger Grier
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Re: Cattleya in pebbles.
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008

>I think you mean me Rocky − yes I will try and get a photo. There are
>pieces of broken pot in the pebbles to stop them rolling about.

From: Roger Grier
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Buying orchids.
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008

Thank you so very much for your input. I will hold off for some time and keep my eyes and ears open.

From: Roger Grier
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Shop around.
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008

Last Saturday at the monthly meeting of the Wessex Orchid Society, there was a very nice plant on the bench for all to see and admire. The owner did not have a name for it.

It is Odontonia 'Samurai'. I believe the cross was made in Europe, but at this point I cannot find out the parentage. I phoned the owner and gave the person its correct name.

I say this because the person who owns the plant told me that is was purchased from an outlet store, maybe a garden centre for a tenner..........less 20% [the swine, ha, ha] so it was purchased for eight pound.....hell.

From: Paul Johnson
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Coelogyne Mossiae
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008

No; that is If you are asking about a Internet accessible site with
accurate information to answer all questions.

At present all accurate information must be gleaned from the published
literature as it appears that most non-botanical mentions of this
species on the Internet actually refer to Coel. Unchained Melody,
while a small proportion or are other misidentifications.

From: Ron Bower
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Silent Auction
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008

I have in my time, at the request of the seller or their agent, made sealed
bids for property, I never however considered that to be a Silent Auction.

From: Roger Grier
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Cattleya Mossiae
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008

To whoever it was that requested some information regarding Cattleya Mossiae..........sorry I mislaid the item, but pressure of other things.

Can you let us know exactly what you want to know, as I and many more members have a good library of items.

From: Geoff Hands
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Silent Auction
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008

I hink its one of those terms which have been invented locally on more than
one occasion ,it's in some American dictionares, but I have not found it in
any English one I have consulted ; I have met it , Cotswold OS used to have
the same system as described by Tricia and gave it the same name. But I've
never met it anywhere else.

> Thanks Tricia,
>
> ...Just goes to show that you live and are never to old to learn.

From:
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Cattleya Mossiae
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008

From: Roger Grier
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Red Spider Mite.
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008

I guess we have all found the little critters on a plant or two during our years into this captivating hobby of ours, so, maybe one or two of our members can tell us how they get into our growing areas.

At least, as they are so slow moving; I find that once spotted, I can easily eradicate them..........at least from that plant and hoping that they are not lurking somewhere else.

I look forward to the comments that will hopefully fill yet another 'file' in my head which I reserve for interesting information. The 'files' that often take many minutes to retrieve !!!!!

From: francis quesada pallares
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Dryadella query
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008

I adquired a nice Dryadella plant some time ago
labelled Dryadella albida. I have checked for this
name as a species and as a hybrid, but it doesn't show
up as either.

As a species, the nearest name is Dryadella albicans
(which I guess it's what I've got here). Recently, the
plant produced a single flower. It is whitish/creamy
coloured with some pink/purple spotting on the top
sepal and less spotting on the lateral ones.

I have searched for pictures of this species, and most
of the pictures show either a white(ish) flower, or
pictures that do not show enough detail of the flowers
to see if it could be the right identification.

Could anyone throw any information about how variable
this particular species is?

If and when I get a picture of my plant, I will post
it here, so people can see it!

From: Roger Grier
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Information required.
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008

I have read as much as I can find about Eriopsis biloba, but what I really need is some information from someone who has actually grown this plant and flowered it.

Maybe some of you will agree with me when I say that most books tell almost the same 'story'.

So come on now, don't be shy, tell me what you have to say about this orchid. And, please, if you have failed with it as I have on two occasions, tell me your story as the more information that the 'Club' gathers, the better we will get at growing and flowering this lovely plant.

From:
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Dryadella query
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008

http://www.orchidspecies.com/dryalbicans.htm
I looked on my Orchid wiz but I can't find any mention of Dryadella albida.
Sorry.
Wirey hugs and love and xxx and licks from Janet, Bobby and Asta

From: Roger Grier
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Dryadella query
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008

Try this website: www.pleurothallids.com/masdevallia Then scroll down to
Masdevallia infracta, and it now looks as though it comes under [as shown]
Alaticaula infracta.

From: Ron Bower
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Red Spider Mite.
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008

Red Spider Mites, are not spiders nor are they red, but are a reddish brown.They belong to a class of small creatures of which most would call insects but are not insects in the scientific sense having a round body with eight legs.However as they are generally called Red spider Mite I will refer to them as such (RSM).

I am a bit surprised that you get them in your orchid house as they do not like moisture or moist conditions and only thrive in a hot dry atmosphere.
There are many different species which attack various types of vegetatation. Apples and peaches in the open and Vines, Nectarines, Carnations, Cucumbers, and Melons to name but a few, under glass. I used to and still do get them in my Conservatory and on plants growing in my house, but they are kept under control or eradicated with the use of the popular Insecticides. You do have to be sure to give the plants a thorough wetting as the web that they cover the area with is quite waterproof. They exist by sucking the sap and so are effected by systemic Insecticides.
In my horticultural days we had them on the Tomatoes in the glass houses and they were controlled with Nicotine type Smokes.

How do they get to us you ask, Well the same way as the Mealy Bugs does I suppose, but I find them easier eradicate than the Mealies.

From: Geoffrey Hands
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Red Spider Mite.
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008

Tell me more − better still , show me a picture ( that's what you are always
telling people ! ) . sorry, I couldn't resist that.

From: francis quesada pallares
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Dryadella query
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008

No, that is definetely not my plant. My plant is a
Dryadella, not a Masdevallia. And although it came
labelled as albida, I am aware that the name does not
exist, as I have already searched for it on the orchid
register for hybrids with that name, and under the
epic (electronic plant information centre)for species
under that name.

I suspect that the plant I have got is Dryadella
albicans, but I want to know how variable the flowers
can be, as most pictures on the internet show a plant
with pretty much white flowers, and mine has got some
puple/pink spotting on the sepals.

From: Dennis Read
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Red Spider Mite.
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008

When I was associated with the Living Rainforest Near Newbury our Amazonica Lily in our main pond was attacked by R S M . The expert that helped us clear it said there were hundreds of 'mites' . He was not surprised that our water lily had been attacked.
Regards from sunny Devon

From: Roger Grier
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Red Spider Mite aka RSM.
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008

Thank you for telling all about RSM, which of course I did know, but it is so very nice to let someone explain it so that newcomers can learn so much. Yes they are of course classified as Mites and have SIX LEGS.....everyone please note.

I suspect that they came into my greenhouse 'attached' to a plant. Let's face it, who would notice just two of the critters on a plant ?????

Right then, Geoff has given me a challenge. Take a photo of them, bloody hell !!!!! How will I go about it!!!

Hopefully, later today I will show you all. Fingers, legs and other parts well and truly crossed.

From: Roger Grier
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Red Spider Mite.
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008

First you get out your camera, and in my case it's a Canon Digital Ixus 55, about the size of a twenty packet of fags.

Open the tripod, screw the camera to it, put two tiny blobs of Blue-tack on the rim of the eye-glass the end that normally fits your eye, and then place that end with the Blue-tack on it carefully over the extended [open] lens of the Ixus 55.

Then adjust the tripod so the camera with the eyeglass attachment is almost touching the leaf. Then take many shots, experimenting all the time with 'Normal' and then 'Digital Macro'.....whatever !!!

So, I hope that the images show what RSM look like, and the damage that they do.

As Ronbow said, he did not think that they would survive in my moist greenhouse, and I am quite sure that they came in via a plant purchased from an 'Outlet Store', and/or a Garden Centre. I know of one Garden Centre that always has hot dry air blowing over the area where the orchids stand.

In the future, ha, ha, ha, if we/I remember, we should all give any purchased plants a very good look over and even then if nothing is seen, still drench it with the bug killer of our choice.

You wrote about RMS on the Amazon Lily.....He was not surprised that our water lily had been attacked.

Regards Rocky, and again we have wall to wall sunshine, greenhouse temperature up to almost 90F.

From: Ron Bower
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Red Spider Mite aka RSM.
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008

I must correct you. According to The Sanders Encyclopaedia of Gardening Red Spider Mite (RSM) has 8 legs as a adult but 6 when hatched. They have 6 legs and are whitish when hatched but grow 2 more when adult, the colour also changes as they age to reddish to green/brownish. RSM hibernate in winter and are whitish after hibernation but soon change to brownish Red.They can of course be carried in on bought plants and I think it highly unlikely you, me or any one else would see it were there only one, even with a glass. I admire your patience and ingenuity, frankly the pictures are not clear enough to even see the legs let alone count them.

P.S. I don't know why many of the word in my original message have blank spaces between the letters. The original does not.RB.

From: Tricia Garner
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: RSM.
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008

> You wrote about RMS on the Amazon Lily.....He was not surprised that our
> water lily had been attacked.

There's moist and there's moist, though... I refer you to Paul Johnson's
message of 2nd August last year regarding mites (including RSM, I suspect)
when Neem Oil was being discussed.

> > Mites love humidity, it is free water that mites do not like. High
> > humidity is essential to happy mites. Free water interferes with
> > their activities and will drown them. Free water coming in the form
> > of rain, or hose sprayers, or misters, or other forceful drops or
> > streams of water are not conducive to mite happiness.

From: Roger Grier
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Red Spider Mite aka RSM.
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008

Now your information regarding the six legs going on to eight is very interesting. I wonder why ??? "Aint nature wonderful!"

As to my patience and ingenuity, it would have been nice to own a digital SLR with a few screw on lens or maybe a bellows attachment so that I could have shown the critters in all their glory, but I certainly won't be going that way.

I suppose that the RMS are the one pest that really get up us orchid growers noses, all of the others can be seen easily enough to start an extermination project before they get too troublesome.

> I must correct you. According to The Sanders Encyclopaedia of Gardening
> Red Spider Mite (RSM) has 8 legs as a adult but 6 when hatched. They
> have 6 legs and are whitish when hatched but grow 2 more when adult, the
> colour also changes as they age to reddish to green/brownish. RSM
> hibernate in winter and are whitish after hibernation but soon change to
> brownish Red.They can of course be carried in on bought plants and I
> think it highly unlikely you, me or any one else would see it were there
> only one, even with a glass. I admire your patience and ingenuity,
> frankly the pictures are not clear enough to even see the legs let alone
> count them.

From: jns tropic
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: I know that it's not an orchid.
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008

But it is too beautiful not to share it. This is our Jade vine that is growing in front of the garage on a trellis. There are about 36 stems dropping down. The car doesn't go in the garage when it's in bloom. I have a really great Sobrallia in bloom today. Take a look at it in my site: www.togofcoralgables.com and go to the February page.

From: Roger Grier
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] RSM.
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008

To carry on this 'Thread'..........thank you so much Tricia aka 'Boss' for
reminding us about what Paul had said.

So, in future, when the weather is nice and kind to our plants, I for one
will make sure that when I use my pump-up sprayer, that I give ALL parts of
the plant and leaves a good soaking.

From: Geoffrey Hands
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Red Spider Mite.
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008

Well done for trying Roger: I have not been able to open your picture files
, so don't know how well you succeeded.

From: Ron Bower
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Red Spider Mite aka RSM.
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008

I don't know why RSM are born with only six legs, probably they are there but not developed enough to be seen. Rather like us humans born without visible teeth. The fully developed RSM has 2 sets of 4 legs 2 at the front each side of its mouth, then a space then 4 more legs, 2 on each side. Actually all the legs are on the sides but the front curve forward and the back pair towards the back. I think that one doesn't at first see the mite but the effects of there present in the form of mottled foliage, and the web, as well as stunted growth and by then on some plants, it to late, the damage to the growing point, on for example Coleus is beyond repair.

You ask if my Orchids are showing signs of growth. Well, most of my Phals are in full flower as well as with spikes and have been since about Christmas time. There is a few Dens and a Zygos with flowers and of course the Sims.It seems to me, and I am probably showing my ignorance here, my Phals grow most, or all of the time, putting out leaves, spikes and or branches. I do as you know grow under lights, some grow better than others and the odd one dies!

From: Dennis Read
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] I know that it's not an orchid.
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008

The Jade Vine is a fabulous flower. We grew it at The Living Rainforest and we managed to pollinate it and grow the seeds − one is now in Cornwall at the Eden Project. Does yours ever get seed pods? Regards Dennis

From: Roger Grier
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Red Spider Mite.
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008

I do not know why you can't open my photo/files, as they have been sent using the normal JPG type.

From: Gordon Walker
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Red Spider Mite aka RSM.
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008

From: Geoffrey Hands
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Dendrobium fimbriatum v.oculatum
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008

I thought I'd like to show you my plant , taken out of the greenhouse . The
tip of the tallest cane just reaches my chin with the plant standing on the
lawn ; I think about 35 spikes this year − certainly my best ever with this
species.

The secret of course is a cool dry rest − from some time in September (
cannot remember whether I put it out before I went to China at the beginning
of the month or when I came back near the end ) and brought back in again
before I went off in December. Originally outside , and when the night temp
fell to 6 C , I took it into an initially unheated "greenhouse" where I
carried on falling to 2 C before I realised that electric heaters have to be
plugged in as well as switched on. Thereafter it varied between say 8 and 15
C at night. Never watered during this period.

From: JIM MATEOSKY
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: I thought this was a hell of a photo
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008

Myrmecophila tibicinis with C. guaranthia skineri var morado in the background I think the ants did it for me.

From: JIM MATEOSKY
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: I thought this was a heck of a photo (attached this time).
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008

Myrmecophila tibicinis with C. guaranthia skineri var morado in the background I think the ants did it for me.

From: Geoffrey Hands
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] I thought this was a heck of a photo
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008

I guess that this used to be a Schomburgkia, and maybe still is in my
greenhouse ! But I have yet to flower one., here in UK..

Appropriate name of course − myrme has something to do with ants, and phila
is lover in anyone's language. mind you I've always s had funny looks when I
called my girl-friends phila.

From: Esther Koh
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: Phalaenopsis modesta
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008

This is mounted on a slab of styrofoam and after 2 years of waiting, it has finally bloomed for me :)

From: Ron Bower
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Red Spider Mite aka RSM.
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008

Sorry, I am not quite Scottish, just nearly but Cold, Cauld or as they say on Tyneside Cad, it sure is not warm, down to 22f. last night and not much higher the noo at 10.42.am.Roll on the global warming!

From: Geoffrey Hands
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] I thought this was a heck of a photo
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008

From: francis quesada pallares
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Dendrobium fimbriatum v.oculatum
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008

I have been checking mine regularly, as it does flower
quite well every year, but so far not a sign of a
spike... Maybe it's not going to flower this year?

From: Ron Bower
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Emailing: FEB 2008
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008

Rocky,
You asked how my Orchids were, here is a picture and as you can see the lights are on hence the yellowish tint.I have pictures of the other side bench as well as some without the lights. I try to send them, but my computer seems reluctant, probably because I don't give it the correct instructions
Ronbow.
The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:
FEB 2008

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From: Ron Bower
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Emailing: FEB%202008%20042.jpg
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008

This is the other bench without the lights. The other ends of the greenhouse is similar but with Syms, Debs and other odds.

From: Alex
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Dendrobium fimbriatum v.oculatum
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008

Thats a superb flowering Geoff − I have just flowered my best ever Yukidaruma King with 7 trusses and yours puts it to shame! I can never bring myself to give them a sufficient dry cold rest, particularly when the canes shrivel and give them a watering.
Is yours flowering on older canes which have flowered before?

From: JIM MATEOSKY
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] I thought this was a heck of a photo
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008

Needs lots of light probally full sun and a little more ;-) in the UK, and hot hot, the resting periond in the wild is like dry the dessert starting Nov-dec ish.

From: Geoffrey Hands
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Emailing: FEB 2008
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008

Can't open your pic ron. Have tried saving , then opening in Photoshop no
better.

Best way of sending pics is using some command such as "save for web or
device" or "send as e-mail".

From: Geoffrey Hands
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Dendrobium fimbriatum v.oculatum
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008

Crossyour fingers Francis − the spikes develop very quickly once they start
, but it seems to happen withing5 or 6 weeks of returning to cosy
surroundings and getting some water.

From: Geoffrey Hands
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Dendrobium fimbriatum v.oculatum
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008

Indeed yes, it looks as though canes carry on flowering for more than 2
years ; most of the flowers are on quite leafless canes, some on canes still
having a few leaves.

From: Roger Grier
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Ronbow's greenhouse.
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008

Well, your weather will always be that much colder than down here, but the greeting that awaits anyone who ventures into your greenhouse and sees those lovely Phalaenopsis will surely warm the cockles of their hearts. Nice to see that you also have a saucer under each pot, and the sight of lots of roots doing what they are supposed to do.

Originally when I asked people how their plants were doing, I was thinking of those that had been sleeping over the Winter period,but what you came up with deserves top marks.

So, going back to those that have been asleep, I have noticed that just a few of mine are sure pushing out new growths.

As our weather is going to quite mild this weekend I may have to start and go through all of my plants. And that means giving each one a very good going over.

From: Nathaniel Green
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: OrchidTalk
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008

Does any one know if you could use the water gathered from condensing tumble
dryer? I know the water should not do that much harm, but I was thinking
that the water after going through the condensing unit would be softer and
less harmful than tap water. Now I know if I had a particle tester and ph
test I could find the answer myself but I am asking Santa for it this
Christmas, the reason I ask that this summer I am going to struggle to keep
up with a constant supply of rain water, I am about to getter another water
but or two, but if I could store and use the water gathered from the
condenser than it would in part help in my water supple problem this summer.

From: jns tropic
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] I thought this was a heck of a photo
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008

'I guess that this used to be a Schomburgkia, and maybe still is in my greenhouse ! ' Geoff

I know that it will be Schomburgkia in my mind. This picture of my Schomocat. Dorthy Fennel will not change to Sniglefritzara.

From: jns tropic
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Dendrobium problems
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008

Dendrobium fimbriatum v.oculatum has grown in the south Florida for a long time, but no one has been able to get it to flower except a stem or two on large plants. People kept growing it because it was easy to grow. The Gatten hybrid will bloom here, but it too has problems due to the warmer winters.
The modern Den. nobile hybrids used to bloom very well in my garden. But as the winters warmed, the plants died one by one. One clone is still hanging on, Den.Yukidaruma 'King' AM/AOS. It blooms in 2 or 3 spurts instead of one great show.

From: Sjean
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Phalaenopsis modesta
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008

From: Sjean
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] I thought this was a heck of a photo
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008

I grow Myrmecophila tibicinis in my unheated solarium on the central California coast where we get light frosts in the winter. It grows right up against the southwest windows where it gets a lot of hot sun in the summer. The flower spikes are amazing and can get up to 8 feet long.

From: Geoffrey Hands
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] I thought this was a heck of a photo
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008

Yeah , I did know about the light ; am thinking of putting my plants outside
for the summer ; I am satisfied that there is not a lot different in terms
of light value measured in lux ( after taking a pro meter to various
tropical locales and waving it about, then the same at home ), even though
the sun (obviously) never gets up to the same height here in UK as it does
near the equator ; but it isn't up at that height all day. Our main problem
in UK is that growing in greenhouses ( glasshouses) the temp can rise to
improbable heights so to keep it down shade is applied. And generally
speaking we are afraid of putting plants outside because we fear the
humidity will be too low, and/or think that tropics means high temperatures
night and day.

I have seen several Schom' species in glorious flower once, when in
Venezuela, where there happened to be an orchid show on ; unfortunately
being S America plus what we call Murphy's law, , they all seemed to be
having their siesta for all the hours I was in that town − somewhere near
Merida, or maybe even Merida itself , as I recall. But I drool over those
flowers − an almost spherical head of flowers larger than a UK soccer (FA)
ball , all the flowers say 9 or 10cm across, those crimped edge petals,
colours all scarlets and purples − amazing..I can forgive the flower stem 6
feet long.

From: Ron Bower
To: Orchid Talk List
Subject: Re: [OrchidTalk] Emailing: FEB 2008
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008

Geoff,
I did and do send Picts "Send As Email" and have tried to send the picture direct to you at your Virgin Net address. It shows as unknown.
Ronbow.

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