Orchid Crimes

[nikv]

My biggest crime is not learning from my past mistakes. I think I've purchased four or five Den. cuthbertsonii over the years with the intention of growing them well. Most of them didn't last a week. Note to self: I cannot provide this species with the conditions it requires. It takes a while for this sort of thing to sink in.

 

[Shiva]

My biggest crime is not learning from my past mistakes. I think I've purchased four or five Den. cuthbertsonii over the years with the intention of growing them well. Most of them didn't last a week. Note to self: I cannot provide this species with the conditions it requires. It takes a while for this sort of thing to sink in.

Took me 20 years, to find out I had to specialise in a very few species and their hybrids to be successful. 20 years to realize I couldn't give perfect conditions to all my babies.

 

[abax]

Oh holy ****, paphreek, did you lose all the spikes??? I don't grow Miltonia well, but I sure do admire them.

It's taken me 11 years to figure out I can't bloom Neos.
I can grow 'em, but can't bloom 'em.

 

[Ruth]

I think this is one of my better mistakes. Just this past week we had our carpet cleaned and re-stretched. I took my Blc. Lawless Romeo 'Juliet' (I posted a picture of it about 2 wks ago) which was just finishing blooming outside, and put it on my potting table. I thot I had put it back under the shelf so it wouldn't get any sun, plus I have an shade umbrella over the potting table. Well guess what? Burned leaves, dumb dumb dumb!:sob:It can be saved, but the plant looked quite nice before this happened.