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Add a little hydrogen peroxide to the water to make sure the substrate remains oxygenated?

So, from experience, if you have made a plan with a friend for an orchid rescue in the event of unforeseen circumstances make sure your next of kin know about and you have passed on the contact details of the rescuer to them. I would suggest making a laminated sign with the details and sticking...

I have no idea. This option wasn't available at the time. I have since moved to a place with soft tap water and am back to potting in bark.

Theodore, I assume you are in Billings, Montana. I tried this method in Orange City, Iowa, and I this method couldn't ever keep up with low ambient humidity. The top was always drying out. I never had any success with this method under those conditions. In the humid summer the plants would do...

Hello, I would have thought the barrels would have worked well to conserve heat. See here: Collecting Solar Heat at Marble Branch Farms by Mark Reinke. They were more active in collecting solar heat. What once could do is to sink the barrels into the ground to make use of heat from the earth to...

What is the cross?

I tried this method out in NW Iowa which has very low humidity in winter and it didn't work well at all. My water source was also very hard which didn't help.

Wow, they sell Disa too: Non-Carnivorous Plants

They are not as easy to grow as others.

Tony, from where did you get your plant? It would be nice to get a piece of South Africa growing at my home.

Cool. It is a very beautiful part of South Africa. Disa orchid viewing is readily accessible in the Harold Porter Botanical Gardens at Betty's Bay.

Does the Betty's Bay refer to the town in South Africa?

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That is really impressive. I wish I had the space for these. Does anyone out there by chance have of the smaller blackdownense subspecies?

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Is this the society in Gray or Knoxville (neither of which I have yet had the opportunity to attend). I'm only 2.5 hours away. I will come rescue your plants if need be.

Someone here used to have a signature that read something like "don't let my wife sell my plants for what I told her I paid for them." That seems good advice. Back in South Africa there was a Paph grower with an extensive and very valuable collection. Life circumstances necessitated that they...

I am thinking some or other complex malipoense hybrid amd the serrated petals are just a first flowering oddity.

Can you provide some pictures of the content, especially the Index page. I am sorely tempted.

Caffeine93, emails gets lost. For some reason emails from my gmail account have a nasty habit of ending up in people's spam folders. I suggest you pass on your contact details to Mafate to pass on to Michael via messenger so he can contact you. I know Michael via the Cape Orchid Society and...