Thought you'd get e kick from this...

[Ray]

I did the Susquehanna OS show last weekend, and we got a big "after church" surge on Sunday.

One woman came to me for advice. She said that she knows nothing about orchids, but has a single pink phal (gotten as a gift), and it is growing absolutely huge. One spike blooms and blooms and blooms, but the other 8 spikes simply will not.

She showed me a photo, and the thing must be 20" across, with some of the biggest, nice, flat blooms I've seen in a while. I recommended that she keep doing what she's been doing!

Oh yeah...those other 8 spikes were aerial roots, about 18" long and nicely staked straight up.

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

:rollhappy::clap::rollhappy:

 

[Kavanaru]

That's somehow sweet..

 

[goldenrose]

:rollhappy: :rollhappy: :rollhappy: That's better than I do with phals!

 

[Lanmark]

Hahahaha

 

[SlipperFan]

It's interesting how non-orchidists have no idea what roots are on orchids. They are used to terrestrials, and think they should cut off "those things."

 

[cnycharles]

wish there was a picture , that must be a very happy plant! sometimes some people do things somewhat better before they 'know the right way to do it'.. sometimes I think things can get over thought and analyzed too much..

 

[SlipperKing]

HA! What HooT!

 

[smartie2000]

:rollhappy::rollhappy::rollhappy:

 

[biothanasis]

nice!!!! Wish I was such a novice!!!...LOL

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

She sounds like the classic idiot savant...

 

[rdlsreno]

Now, now let us not be mean!

Ramon

 

[NYEric]

You should have sold her some Cobra - oil to help her plant bloom!

 

[Lanmark]

Perhaps, if she puts in a prayer request at church, those roots will send out buds. :evil:

 

[NYEric]

Sacrilage!

 

[JeanLux]

good story Jean

 

[Hera]

:clap::clap::clap::rollhappy::rollhappy::rollhappy:

 

[ohio-guy]

maybe she is on to something....keeping the roots up keeps them from rotting.....after all, I think I have seen some phals strapped to tree fern slabs and their roots can grow up as well as down.