Why is it that it appears that everyone that is trying to sell something seems to be offended by my presenting a slightly different way of growing and displaying orchids? I seem to be a threat to some people! That was never my intent. These blogs often seem to have very obvious commercial under tone rather than open discussion!
Please don't assign motives based upon a few typed words.
Folks who know me - I've met a few here, and certainly communicated with many more for a long time - understand that my desire in participating in these discussions is to bring a broader, practical, more thorough and scientific understanding of orchid culture to as many as possible, and not based upon commercial interests. You might note, for example, that my response the the original post in this thread recommended that the individual use Hydroton when I really do have a larger financial stake in PrimeAgra. Yes, depending upon the locale and growing conditions, PrimeAgra might have been a better brand of LECA to use, but it wasn't relevant to the conversation.
My mentioning of the S/H pots was to contrast it to the Lechuza pot, which you appeared to claim was the best in all ways for hydroculture, using explanations that did not appear to consider all of the facts. Nothing more. You seem to be the one "threatened" by that.
One of the great things about this particular forum is that we all feel free to openly discuss all sorts of topics that are really pertinent - you should go find the paph nutrition megathread - with the confidence that differences of opinion will be discussed and analyzed based upon cold, hard facts. With that being the mindset of most of us here, and reflecting upon someone else's earlier comments - and please try to think about this a objectively - how much weight should one put on the comments of someone whose MO includes:
- making blanket statements
- talking down to others
- remains totally anonymous
- uses photos of someone else's greenhouse when supposedly describing his or her own growing conditions, and
- uses unverifiable claims of applicable credentials
