So the weather prognosis is predicting a lot cooler temperatures from now on, down below 10 C at night and below 20 C during the day. So I thought is was time to pack up the air conditioning unit for this season and reconfigure the cool vivarium for winter. A fairly easy job actually, [...]
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Apparently I was experiencing some technical difficulties after the transfer of this site to a new webhost last night… but it is finally back up now. Thank you for your patience! Time for orchids at summer camp – part two. My little Cattleya Dahlenburg Mini had a curious visitor yesterday while hanging outside soaking up some rays. The tiny hoverfly crawled into the flower many times before he decided that the back the flower was where all the action was. He sat there for a long [...] Here we go again… We have moved to the summer cottage by the coast and of course with a bunch of bare-rooted orchids in tow… A slightly larger crowd than last summer, mostly smaller young plants, but otherwise more or less the same. This year I made up a small sun shade for [...] It is fungus gnat season again… sigh! They love warm wet vivariums and now it is summer with a lot warmer temperatures – which was followed by an explosive increase in fungus gnats. They look like a small mosquito and some mistake them for the harmless common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). It is [...] There is something tragic, yet very graceful, when the orchid flower has done its time. It slowly begins to wilt and finally become a memory (or a mummy) of its former beauty. Yet it lingers, refusing to give up the right to exist, to remember its former grandeur. Sometimes I almost like this process [...] It has become a bit of a tradition to have all the vandas tag along on our vacations, so I figured I would post a photo of this year’s group. Since I grow my vandas bare root they get a bath every day (or every other day now when it is a little darker [...] I want to wish you all a wonderful xmas and a very nice holiday season. I hope the coming year will bring many wonderful orchid experiences. Thanks for a fantastic year! Love, Karma The same lovely Prosthechea cochleata that I just pollinated have also been working on a new bud on this years’ growth. I thought it would wait until spring to bloom since it just finished blooming on the previous years’ bulb. But, this little lady had other plans, and she is facing some complications. For [...] I have been tiptoeing around my two Masdevallia tovarensis for weeks now watching the little buds grow – but they grow oh sooooo slow!! And then last night I managed to break off one of the most developed buds, the one almost ready to open up! A quick slash, a gasp for air, followed [...] |
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