If you're looking mostly for cultural info, try to find something written
for your climate; if you can't, do keep in mind the likelihood that some of
the advice may have to be modified or may not work for you at all.

For example, here in hot, humid south Florida, I mostly recommend Orchid
Growing in the Tropics [OSSEA, available from the AOS bookstore online] to
those of my customers moving up from the novice stage. [The Ortho "All
About Growing Orchids" is what I recommend to beginners.] I've read
Northen's "Home Orchid Growing" several times, and it has _lots_ of good
info, but also contains advice that, if followed here, would promptly _kill_
plants in our specific conditions.

Specifically for vandaceous plants, Motes' book is very good.

--
Kenni Judd
Juno Beach Orchids

http://www.jborchids.com
"Geir Harris Hedemark" wrote in message
...
I just got my copy of Grove: "Vandas and ascocendas and their
combinations with other genera". Nice book, a bit old, but it has one
bit which details orchid culture. It says, among other not-so-relevant
things, that strap-leaved vandas will fold their leaves if subjected
to too much light. My small sansai blue has now been moved away from
the light. So has my epidendrum keikis.

Are there any other books out there with similar help for novices? If
I hadn't gotten hold of that book, I would have left the sansai where
it was the rest of summer with a seriously damaged plant come
fall for my troubles.

(It was at 35klux 15h per day, by the way. Now at 30klux for 12h.)

Geir