Nickp
Active Member
Hello. I just joined the forum, but I have been growing orchids for about 26 years. I recognize a few names here from the old Orchid List Digest and rec.gardens.orchids back in the 90s. Early on, I grew a lot of slippers under lights, but for the past ten or fifteen years my main focus has been on cattleya alliance species grown in a greenhouse. My interest in slippers was rekindled by Harold Koopowitz's new checklist of Paphiopedilum in Orchid Digest...well, that and the nasty infestation of boisduval scale that has wiped out many of my hard-pseudobulb orchids in the past few years. I noticed that the scale never touched my paphs, so...
I have bought a few new plants and have been busy repotting the old survivors in my collection. The dwarf Paph philippinense that I got from Ron Ciesinski (Taylor Orchids) in 1995 fell apart into about a dozen divisions, so maybe I'll have something to trade when they grow some new roots.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading the forum and participating where I can.
I have bought a few new plants and have been busy repotting the old survivors in my collection. The dwarf Paph philippinense that I got from Ron Ciesinski (Taylor Orchids) in 1995 fell apart into about a dozen divisions, so maybe I'll have something to trade when they grow some new roots.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading the forum and participating where I can.