Growing orchids outside
orchidjim
14 years ago
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Comments (13)OK, thanks everyone, you've put this 'worrywort's' mind at rest! Howard,my GH is very small and serves me only for the winter months. I can heat it when necessary, but cooling it doesn't work! Our summer temps are just too hot for the building I use, actually a glass house. I have an attached screen house where all the lower light plants stay during the summer and do well. But the high light guys I try to keep outside. Rain this time of year is very unusual for us, my rain barrels are overflowing :))). Since you've given me an OK, I'm going to put the rhyncostylis plants out too and let them enjoy all the rain. Happy growing. Sheila :)...See MoreBroken spikes - dashed dreams - how have you reacted?
Comments (8)Yes, indeed, I feel your pain and, strangely, I have echoed your sigh. I found this website searching for an answer to my inquiry: "Severly damaged jewel orchid." While in Florida with my sister, I bought this orchid knowing NOTHING about it, but it had such beautiful leaves, I had to have it and give it a try. I asked the ladies at the shop where I bought it, "What does the bloom look like?" They said they didn't know...they'd never seen it. So, for $20, I bought this very small plant with the beautiful leaves and transported it up to Northern Virginia. Two months later it sent up a spike and I called my sister and told her that "the funky orchid is blooming. Come quick!" The very next day I discovered that the plant had been broken BELOW the lowest leaves. I don't know if the cleaning ladies did it, but I just sighed and decided to move ahead. (I love my cleaning ladies.) So, I entered this forum and asked if the plant might survive....either the top part or the bottom part. I received a few helpful responses and clipped the spike...WITH BUDS (oh, woe is me!)...and have left the bottom part, with no leaves but with roots, in the pot untouched. The upper part, with the leaves, I've left in the spaghnum moss and the leaves are slowly sulking...but they are wilting more slowly than before and, when I clipped the spike, I thought I saw a root!!!! So, I'm leaving both parts alone to see if either will survive. Good luck. It's painful to lose an orchid, but more painful to lose a good cleaning crew! Good luck. Kathleen...See MoreWhere Do You Grow Orchids?
Comments (46)Hey, Tuezday, in case it would be helpful, I constructed a lathe house that folds flat for winter storage in the garage. It's about 75"L x 26"W x 75"H and cuts light by 50%. I built a "double wide," but it would be easy - and less expensive - to make it half the length. You could also make it 36" longer easily. W/ the plexiglass weighted by bricks on the top, you can have overhead rain or not. Whole thing cost about $250 w/ everything from HD. Mine faced E/SE, and the orchids loved it. Caveat: Plants needed intermediate light or low light, not high light. So, that's the summer setting. Inside for winter - Orchid room, intermediate conditions: Living room, cooler temps: Dormant Cycs and Ctsae in cooler living room: Unknown is if the plants in the cooler LR will like the setting. For most of them, this is their first winter there. Last winter, the Ctsae and Cycs made it fine, but the others may turn up their noses. As always, "it will become known." Whitecat8...See MoreIs it possible to grow Orchids?
Comments (10)I don't know anyone that grows them outside. I think it gets too cold anywhere in Alabama to grow them outside. I know several people that grow them indoors, myself included. My husband gave me one of the "Just Add Ice" orchids for Valentines Day about 3 years ago and it is still alive. It blooms sporadically and had a baby that I just potted up. I left the baby on the mother plant for over a year, but then the stalk the baby was on turned brown, so I figured it was time to move it to its own pot....See Morearthurm
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