Joanna,You think you have problems,I have been collecting for about 3
years.I have managed to collect allsorts,you seem very controlled in your
buying so don't think you have fully been bitten buy the BUG!I have about
200 min,I really could do with logging all my plants & keeping track of what
I have.I did at first but lost interest doing it.So I have my greenhouse
conditions set to what I think I can afford,I will see what thrives & what
dies .What thrives I will try and collect that species.
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Thanks Keith,Nottingham,England,UK.
"J Fortuna" wrote in message
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I am an orchid addict, trying to postpone the inevitable: another orchid
purchase. I last bought 3 orchids on April 16th (bringing up my total to
38), since then I have been

-- visiting orchid vendor's websites every day, often more than once a day
(just Web browsing, looking very innocent)

-- thinking about the imbalance in my collection, with 29 out of the 38
orchids being Phals, and only 9 Paphs, surely I must buy 22 more Paphs
soon.

-- stopped by the local plant nursery on the way from work, telling myself
that if they happen to have a small Paph, those don't take up almost any
extra space and one more Paph won't be any more trouble to water, etc. The
only thing that stopped me from buying an orchid then and there was the
fact
that not only did they not have any paphs right now, but they are now
selling orchids potted together with leafy non-orchids, and those weeds
are
likely to take away nutrients from the orchids, right? Anyway they did not
have anything special, so I just bought a new decorative orchid pot, and a
replacement lightbulb.

-- thinking with regret about that one orchid that I admired at one of the
orchid vendor's at the New York show, but which I did not buy, since I had
not looked around yet, and when I circled back, it was gone already.

-- thinking that I wish I could hold out with more orchid purchases till
June, since in June through August fewer of my Phals will be in bloom, and
so I will need to replenish the collection anyway, and I don't have
unlimited amounts of space in the one-and-a-half bedroom apartment that we
live in. And surely having 17 orchids currently in bloom and 5 more in
spike
should satisfy me for the time being. But what are the odds that I will
stop
myself from another orchid purchase until then?

Does that kind of behavior sound familiar to you? Do you have additional
orchid withdrawal symptoms that I should be watching out for? :-)

Joanna