Hi Larrisa, You wrote, "... the leaves of many of my orchids were getting very warm in the direct sun." Question: Do you have adequate air movement to cool your plants' leaves? I live further south than NJ and didn't have that issue today. The skies were clear here. --Stitz--

All the best to you too! Shortest day today folks...glad that's out of the way! We haven't seen the sun for ages here, been really cold again with -Ctemps. My washing stood up on it's own when we got back from shopping today, had to bend it to get it to fit in the washing basket!! brrrrrr. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all and thanks for answering all my recent questions...no doubt there will be more to come. Gill.

What I didn't know is, you can click on any of two of them to make a combination. Oh. So there are several possiblities, six? my math mind isn't turned on yet, for an ending. :)

KC, bummer about your loss,,,, but you will grow lots more and laugh when you think back about this evening. I just bought 180 lb and am planning to throw it down this week. I expect it will be fine just lying there until the rains hit (hopefully) by mid February. I still see remnants of my slow release Palm Plus on the ground from early fall so im not in a rush. this next dose will be 50/50 GroPower citrus / NitraKing.