PHRAG said:
WOW! Waiting for you to post was worth it.
Thanks, cause you've been waiting a long time!
First question of many, do you have copies of Grisan on DVD? I don't have a VHS player and I want to see it.
No DVDs right now. When we moved to Peru DVDs were still new and unique. But now that we are back I definately plan to put the programs on DVD when I can get to it.
And this next question is probably a dumb one. Have you seen/photographed besseae in-situ? What about kovachii?
No that is not a dumb question, I am the dumb one for not getting up north and doing that. But I have this nagging need to go photograph besseae and kovachii soon. I kept putting off a lot of photography and then when I became ill we had to leave without doing it. We did find several plants I suspected of being phrags but I did not find any signs of flowers and they were growing where I thought phrags should not grow, it would be very far south for besseae. That does not mean it was not though as the area is not well explored for such a trivial thing as a new phrag specie. We did find caudatum, pearcei, and a pouchless specie in bloom. I'll post a little about this sometime.
I used to want to be a real photographer, but I have given up that dream. I was a wedding photographer for a while. Do you still shoot?
Wise choice. Best to be a funtime photographer now days. There is no way you could convience me to photograph a wedding, many have tried and all have failed. You are brave
I still shoot casually and to document some of the things we do. But the truth is when you're on long expeditions (or even short trips) in the jungle it is very hard to photograph and collect at the same time. Never enough time and always deep in water collecting fish or hands are very dirty from digging plants.
How long have you been married? And will your wife talk mine into liking orchids? Maybe if another woman explains to her how cool they are, she will believe it. I make her go to sleep when I talk to her about them.
Gee you are setting a trap for me, how long have I been married? Belinda is likely to read this! We were best friends in high school and got carried away:drool:. I held her off as long as I could but she won out after a few years. Let's see that would be 31 years, in 1975 we eloped to Las Vegas.
Talking your wife into liking orchids may take a special jungle spell or something. But it might be worth a try. You should take her down to Peru and swim in a clear pool under a tree full of orchids. That will do it if anything will. You don't need to mention orchids until you stumble upon them by accident.
What are you growing on your shelves? You said you bought flasks, but are they species, hybrids or...?
About 50/50 phrags and paphs. I have a lot of Chuck Ackers current phrag hybrids and a mix of multifloral paph crosses from different sources. The phrags are all hybrids in the besseae group except of course kovachii.
I have some sanderanium and topperii but most of the paphs are also hybrids.
Funny when I decided to fill the place up with orchids I had intended to collect phrag species, humm, I did not do that.
