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  1. gego

    Salts from fertilisers

    Maybe sulfates of those elements. They are cheaper but need a lower pH solution for uptake.
  2. gego

    Ciliolare bud

    Looks like it has a really nice dark color.
  3. gego

    Water quality

    Hanna or Milwaukee. They both stay on the spot for a longer time. You do need to recalibrate them or at least check their reading with a buffer. Also rinse them with distilled water, rinse the extra water then place it back to their cap with storage solution after using. Right now I use Hanna...
  4. gego

    Group Picture In the Kitchen

    Thanks. That and the urbaniamum are going back to the Phils.
  5. gego

    Group Picture In the Kitchen

    Tiny plant. Tiny flower.
  6. gego

    Group Picture In the Kitchen

    Just some cuties, might as well share my view as I have my coffee. From left, urbanianum, fowliei album, delanatii album and thaianum. Good morning.
  7. gego

    World Orchid Conference 2024 Taiwan

    Thank you all. Hoping to see some of you and maybe visit their nurseries together. A bigger group usually gets a better attention.
  8. gego

    World Orchid Conference 2024 Taiwan

    Any information about who should we seeing for paphiopedilums in Taiwan? Growers or vendors or nurseries. Thanks.
  9. gego

    I would really need help with my fertilizer mix!

    Yeah, it's not effective and may not be enough. When one is using a certain mixed fertilizer, like 20 20 20 or 20 15 16, you will notice that Ca, MG and S are not provided if ever not in adequate quantity. This is because one is expected to use tap water that has them in acceptable amount. So it...
  10. gego

    I would really need help with my fertilizer mix!

    Calcium carbonates need to be dissolved first by whatever acid that will be in contact to it to form the aquatious form calcium bicarbonate. Both are now in ionic forms where the bicarbonate can increase the pH and the CA ion is now free to be absorbed. So if this calcium bicarbonate happens to...
  11. gego

    Paph. Lady Isabel

    It does have more influence from stonei on the pouch and the roth used has influenced the size of the dorsal.
  12. gego

    Paph. Lady Isabel

    Roth was Kingkong. I need to get name for the stonei used. Kingkong was supposed to be huge, 7.2 DS.
  13. gego

    Paph. Lady Isabel

    I have about 20 plants from flask from Sam. 5 have flowered and some got sold. This one is my favorite in color and form and might be good in size too. This also developed outside when temp has dropped already so it got stunted considerably. Keeper.
  14. gego

    Paph haynaldianum

    Here's another one but it developed outside when the temp already dropped to 40F and I was still out of the country to save it. This has the vini color and the biggest flower so far. I love this.
  15. gego

    Paph haynaldianum

    I find their blooms to be fragile and the stem comes out soft. Yours has a good size from what I can see. And same dark pastel color. Good luck on the next one.
  16. gego

    Paph haynaldianum

    Here's the second sibling. The plant is small so I might be able to get more flowers if I can grow it better. But the flower is very good.
  17. gego

    Paph haynaldianum

  18. gego

    Paph haynaldianum

    The second plant has a better flower overall but I was late to take a pic. I will post when it opens. Thanks
  19. gego

    Paph haynaldianum

    First bloom of this batch. Not bad. Some of you have this cross.
  20. gego

    Bought a new Paph. lebaudyanum but I'm already noticing brown leaf tips on a new growth less than a week of having it..... I used 1/4 fert when wateri

    Calcium just a guess. If you have good roots and I'm sure it has with the look of that plant, yellow turning brown tips is more like lack of calcium. I have this with haynaldianums. Check your source of calcium or lack of it, might be the cause. Another question is SlipperKing's question.
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