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Interesting about the 45 degree angle. I killed every P. besseae and P. besseae cross I tried to grow in my light room. They would thrive in winter temps (high 72), but as soon as the temps started to rise in the spring by June (high 84) they were in such decline that they did not make it...

I'm assuming 'The Virgin' is an original plant, as I know you have several. If so, I think you can rest assured it will come into its own. I just got an OP of this Bob Betts, and also of Bow Bells 'Honolulu'. A Bow Bells that came down through Waldor from Joe Grezaffi that was never awarded...

Read Chadwicks book 'The Classic Cattleyas'. It's all the history as far back as we know just about. All the major jungle hunters, hybridizers and cut flower industry, you will love it!

Thanks, I wish I knew why my phrags bloom now, instead of February for the Paph Forum like everyone else's. Although they are all pretty young, so maybe they'll straighten out.

I agree, the first one did not bloom last time when the second one did. Smaller plant. Anyway, first one has a green tint and the upturned petals, but is .3 cm larger NS. The second one is perfectly flat and great color. I think it will bloom larger when it's not climbing inches above the...

We have a Big Green Egg which is a Komodo. I love the way it cooks. But, my husband who does the cooking on it does not like dealing with the charcoal. We even have the gizmo that supposedly holds it at perfect temperature, but over a period of hours you were constantly having to deal with it...

I killed my division of this awarded plant so tried a couple of selfings. I think last bloom was better. They need repotting terribly, as have climbed several inches above mix, which undoubtedly is not ideal. Sweet thing, though.

First bloom. Pretty cupped but I like the color. Was hoping to get 2 flowers at once, oh well.

Did you soak it? Sometimes that helps, but paph roots seem so fragile compared to catts, etc.

Cooked our first brisket this past weekend on a Traeger pellet grill. It was very stressful because we are new to the pellet grill and to cooking brisket. I watched DivaQ for instructions on trimming the brisket and used her recipe. Flavor was great, but I over trimmed as I don't think I had...

Avid is my go to, I've used it for years on roses and orchids. You want to get rid of them because they are suckers and suckers spread viruses.

Since most of the current discussion regarding this came from my original post I feel I must chime in: I didn't mean to create this firestorm :oops: In my original post, I just mentioned in response to something posted earlier on this forum, that on the FB group Paphiopedilum someone posted a...

I saw it in a Fb group online. I’ve asked her what country she’s in, to see if it’s US. She’s not responded.

This was in a Facebook group ‘Paphiopedilum’. I asked where she got it. They are apparently somewhat readily available.

Ray, I certainly can’t explain it, but Terry and I had the same PAR meter, the Apogee Quantum 100x and we have different brands of LEDs. But both of us experienced the same thing until we upgraded to the higher level meter that is full spectrum. Even the specs on the website say the 100x is...

Why can’t the flowers be under the lights? My lights are high intensity, so I can have the correct PAR at the top of canopy, and still have plenty of headroom for flowers. It all depends on the intensity of the lights and how much headroom they allow above canopy.

Correction: If you measure, be aware that it takes a light meter (F/C, LUX) or PAR meter (umols/s) specifically able to measure full spectrum if your lights are. When I was measuring with a PAR meter that was not specifically full spectrum 400-700, it measured about 20% off (low).

terryros the OL seedling bloomed last Sept/Oct and now has 2 new leads about 5” tall. So this year at least, they won’t bloom together. Maybe next…. But I had 2 Prism Palette ‘Carnivals’. One from Waldor and one from Plato Mathews and they never bloomed together either. Even when growing next...

Ill ill take a look tomorrow at bloom times for each plant.