I just bought afew more plants (yeah after the last batch got left
outside by fedex you think I would learn) including neofinetia and
Brassavola cuculata, I am trying to switch my entire collection (yeah
17 plants isn't much, but it is expanding) over to s/h as I'm lazy and
I think that It'll let me expierment more to find the "perfect"
enviroment in my house.

advice and help much appriciated

Jack

BTW does anyone know of any orchid resourses in Anchorage

On 13 Nov 2005 23:03:01 -0800 in <1131951781.429852.156910 [at] g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Jack <davisonjd [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just bought afew more plants (yeah after the last batch got left
> outside by fedex you think I would learn) including neofinetia and
> Brassavola cuculata, I am trying to switch my entire collection (yeah
> 17 plants isn't much, but it is expanding) over to s/h as I'm lazy and
> I think that It'll let me expierment more to find the "perfect"
> enviroment in my house.

There is this amusing commentary on neofinetia and SH...
http://www.garden-groups.com/post/3646/Cattleya_mossiae_semi _alba.html

But it doesn't sound like you're east of the mississippi and south of the
msaon dixon line...
>


--
Chris Dukes
Suspicion breeds confidence -- Brazil

negitive, the GREAT FAR NORTH
sounds like Neos are touchy about what they put their feet in.

I've had a neotfinetia falcata in S/H for several years. It's a healthy
plant but real small. It hasn't bloomed yet. A local expert says it
needs a cooler environment than I've been giving it and a definite
period of cooling in the fall.

By conrast, my Brassavola nodosa has been in S/H for several years, and
it blooms its head off. Currently, it's in the biggest pot that Ray
sells and has filled it up. The next pot will be a bucket, I guess.
Brassavola crosses do well in S/H too--better than in regular media.

I've had good luck with S/H for everything but Phals. If they "catch"
they do fine but tend to have a lot of Medusa-esque aerial roots.

Jack,

When the Neofinetia falcata blooms then take it to bed with you at night.
Put it on a table in the room and you will have sweet dreams.

Mick

Thanks, have to get it in first
I was wondering if it is more touchy as a cooler grower, as I have
mostly phals and cats

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:03:01 -0800, Jack wrote
(in article <1131951781.429852.156910 [at] g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):

> I just bought afew more plants (yeah after the last batch got left
> outside by fedex you think I would learn) including neofinetia and
> Brassavola cuculata, I am trying to switch my entire collection (yeah
> 17 plants isn't much, but it is expanding) over to s/h as I'm lazy and
> I think that It'll let me expierment more to find the "perfect"
> enviroment in my house.
>
> advice and help much appriciated
>
> Jack
>
> BTW does anyone know of any orchid resourses in Anchorage

I have two pots of Little Stars in S/H, and they're doing well. I seem to
have a knack for killing Neofinetia in any medium!

Tom
Walnut Creek, CA
Nikon D70

everyone seems to have a "knack" for killing neos, are they that tricky
(if so I should learn to mass grow them, as the saying goes "there
wouldn't be orchid growers if there weren't orchid killers")

I've seen pictures of the flowers, just kinda suprised by the small
size of the plant.

Jack

Well, there's getting them to live, and then there's getting them to
live *and* flower. It can be done, though.I saw neo in bloom at an
orchid society meeting, and it was loaded with blossoms. The plant was
quite small. I asked the grower how long he'd had the plant, and as
best he could recall, it was about 15 years. He grows in a greenhouse,
and I think his growing conditions are on the cool side.

When you see neo flowers in a catalogue, they always show you a
close-up of one flower, and they are quite lovely. However, when a lot
of them are in bloom on a small plant, it's not what I'd call a real
spectacular sight (as compared with cattleya loaded with blooms), but
that's just me.