Hello! Sorry about it!

One day, I went to buy a Phal, two spike! The seller put it in a nice box
and I went to the car.
Inside the car, I was too excited to see the plant that when I opened the
box, I cut both spike!
It`s been almost 2 years ans my Phal. Baldan`s kaleidoscope is now spiking!

Shuutt......


Claude

"J Fortuna" wrote in message
...
| Johnny,
|
| Sorry to hear about your bad luck.
|
| Yes, cars and spikes definitely do not go together well. I once broke a
| spike because I had briefly placed the pot on the car seat to try to grab
| something else, and the pot fell over and the spike broke. :-(
|
| However, it works better if there are at least two people in the car, that
| way one person can be designated to pay full attention to the plant. When
| you have two people, when entering or exiting the car, one person can be
| seated and the other standing outside, and they can pass the plant between
| them. I have found that this helps.
|
| Hope that you have lots of other orchids to keep your mind from lingering
| too long on this broken spike.
|
| Joanna
|
| "J X M" wrote in message
| ail.com...
| I learned a very important lesson yesterday. I was moving an Oncidium
full
| of
| buds from work to home last evening and brought it all the way home. For
| those
| few seconds when I was more interested in getting stuff out of the car,
I
| forgot
| all about the spike... lifted the pot and heard a snap. I can't believe
I
| did
| that to the plant. And after watching the thing grow for SO long.
|
| Had anyone else done that to one of my plants... I would have had a
great
| argument with them... but it turns out that I did it myself. All I can
say
| is,
| it sucks... So what did I learn? Don't ever move an orchid unless you
are
| paying
| full attention and if it has spikes, think a few times, before so much
as
| taking
| it anywhere near an automobile.
|
| Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait and see if it will spike again.
|
| Johnny McIntyre
|
|