How many orchids does everyone have?

heth

14 years ago

I was just wondering how many orchids everyone's got? I'm an indoor grower with 20 plants.

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arthurm
14 years ago
Too many living to count. Killed zillions!
orchidnick
14 years ago
I used to have a lot but I'm down to about 2,000, all outdoor growers.

Nick
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richardol
14 years ago
622 scattered between two greenhouses. New world species is the goal, but really it is all over the map.
smwboxer
14 years ago
50-60, indoor apartment grower.
petite_orange
14 years ago
Almost...almost...almost enough.
Nancy
stitzelweller
14 years ago
silly question!

more than I can afford
more than I have space
more than I have time

--Stitz--
heth
Original Author
14 years ago
thanks, my parents have been trying to justify not letting me get anymore orchids next year by saying that nobody without a greenhouse could possibly have more than me. I needed to prove them wrong. :)
richardol
14 years ago
Parents! Don't they understand that orchids can always be re-arranged to fit one more?
westoh Z6
14 years ago
Used to have @160, now only about 50 that I "hope" I can grow succesfully.

Exclusively an indoor grower here.

Bob
terpguy
14 years ago
Numbers have been all over the map for the last few years (peaking around 70), but at the moment living in an apartment with only a 5' window to grow in, I've got about 27 orchids, and maybe 10 non orchids.
etex
14 years ago
A little over 125 right now. Don't think I can get many more or they will have less individual attention.
littlem_2007
14 years ago
i have about 200 - some die and i buy some more. most are compact plants. in the summer most are outside. in the winter, they are in every window and a spare bedroom except for the cool growers which are in the sunroom which is heated to 40F-50F. i also have quite a number of non-orchids.
sue
eyesofthewolf
14 years ago
23, and getting ready to evict my son from his east facing bedroom so I can have it for an orchid growing room. He just laughed but then said "Are you serious mom?" I guess I will wait.............................:) Deanna
sweetcicely
14 years ago
...maybe he would like a tropical decor, Deanna...?

I'm also an indoor grower with limited space. I have 16 orchids of ten genera and try to add a new genus or species each year (given sufficient space).

Sweetcicely
albertan
14 years ago
Roughly 1000 down from a peak of 4000. Outside growing in back yard. Shade house for catts and phals--open yard for vandas and dendrobes, cymbidiums and intergenerics. Orchid society friends take turns caring for them as I have been restricted by limited mobility for the last three years.
tommyr_gw Zone 6
14 years ago
24 currently.
jodik_gw
14 years ago
Under 20, but wanting to expand. I'm relatively new at collecting and growing orchids. Most are grouped amid my massive tender bulb collection, everything grown indoors with the help of supplemental lighting.
ttkidd
14 years ago
About 40 I think....all grown in my apartment windows with a little supplemental lighting.

Tyler
xmpraedicta
14 years ago
I have 65-70 depending on whether you're counting duplicates and things that are on the verge of death! And they are all on two windowsills, a plant rack and two tanks.
highjack
14 years ago
Too many to count because when I got to over 200 phals and still had four big areas to count, I quit.

Brooke
reiddy99
14 years ago
Hey Guys,

Looks like I have about 760 different orchids. Not including the 12 cattleya's that I might win from Kawamoto Orchids ebay auctions this week! Always have more room for a few more.
erict
14 years ago
Let's see.

2 Dendrobiums.

3 Phalaenopsis

1 Cymbidium

1 Oncidium-like thing. Similar to Sherry Baby

1 grass-like one I'm having trouble identifying.

2 Cattleya (one is very tiny!!)

1 epicattleya

1 brassavola

OMG I have 12 orchids??? :D
angeleyedcat
14 years ago
I'm an indoor windowsill grower (plus 1 growlight with 10 plants under it to brighten a dark room) who has a very little house but since it has big windows I've been told I pretend it's a greenhouse = around 35 to 40 orchids plus 80 other houseplants from foliage to violets to hoyas.
mehitabel
14 years ago
Somewhere close to 200, growing without a greenhouse. But I do have a dedicated light room.
birding_nut
14 years ago
I have 54, used to have around 120. Had to downsize now that I am a parent of a real child, and not just a 'chid. Having a new baby who has grown into a 5-year old took up too much of my time (for the better of course) so had to downsize my orchid collection. I am an in home grower, utilizing just windows.

BN
triciami5
14 years ago
I have about 25, lately people keep giving them to me, they get them as gifts and pass them on to me because they dont know what to do with them. Very lucky there but am running out of room fast. I have them under a grow light, but think some will be upstairs this winter on the sills. tricia
jowben1
14 years ago
78, with 5 more in shipping, not counting about 75 babies from several flasks. I grow on a lanai behind screening. I just brought about 20 inside and the rest into a makeshift greenhouse.(an el off the lanai, closed off with soloflex and a used patio door). Now I have to get a heater quickly, as it's supposed to drop to the 30's & 40's this weekend. (Port Saint Lucie,Fl)The 20 moved inside, are either blooming, in bud, or spiking.