The most important take home messages from my trip to the Borneo jungles
last year were that orchids were most prolific where there had been a
disturbance in the tree canopy (path, fallen tree, cliff) and that the light
level where many plants were growing and flowering was significantly less
than I had thought it would be. It seems that these breaks in the canopy
enable direct sunlight to reach the forest floor but for limited periods of
time as the earth rotates but for most of the day the plants are in shade
with filtered light.
"?" <pakrat [at] localhost.private.neotoma.org> wrote in message
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> <1146499262.603398.197280 [at] v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> jtill
> <jtill10610 [at] aol.com> wrote:
>> Is it fair to say that where there is grass(healthy, thick grass) there
>> is enough light for orchids?
>
> For most species people keep, I'd suspect there might be too much light.
>
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> Chris Dukes
> < tajwerk> this job isnt bad though. Today we had free breakfast and
> B0rg implants.
