Cold tolerance of Oncidium Sharry Baby
may thru oct looks good to me
"Liam" wrote in message
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thanks Ray and thanks Vespaman. And I am sorry to hear of your sad
experience w the vanda Vespaman.
From your observations what's the length of time do you think Phals
can bear in the low 50's then. Would you say anywhere from 2 to 3
months of exposure for it be okay. I want to see i can keep them
outdoor for an extra 2 months longer. I have enclosed a temp chart
below in my area to see what you think of it.
Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov
Dec
High Temperature ( F ) 67 68 68 71 73 77 83 84 82 78 72
67
Low Temperature ( F ) 45 47 49 52 56 60 63 65 63 58 50
45
"Vespaman" wrote in message
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just my experiance that below 50 for extended periods of time and you
can
lose your phals.
when i mean extended i am talking about 3-5 days of below 50 night temps
a day here or a day there below 50 i dont worry but if you get 3,4,5,6
days
you can bet you will lose something. i have a very large ascd. that was
out
in the gh for a couple of weeks and it was getting down to 40 at night
so i
thought i should bring it in and sure enough about a week later it
droped
all of its leaves eccept 1 and the new growth.. whew!!!!!!
it had gotten cold damage and it took a week or so for it to appear
it had big thick leaves as long as your arm and i thought it would be
more
cold tolerant then some of my small phal's but i was wrong it just took
a
little longer for the damage to show
so i lost 1 and saved one by the skin of my teeth this year
remember Knowledge cost's......in this case it was the price of a nice
phal.
jim
"Liam" wrote in message
om...
Thanks for sharing w/ us the cold temperature tolerance of Phals. I
have been wondering about this for a long time. I was just curious
would you say it would be safe for them in the 40-45 F zone or is that
pushing it? Or how about 45-50F?
"Vespaman" wrote in message
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i have an unheated/uncooled green house here in so cal
my min /max thermometer thing tells me it is 42-44 at night and
today
the
high inside me gh is 88-90 i have catts, ondonts, oncidium, epi's,
blc's,
brassavolla's, milt's, vanda's, den's and reed's and i have no
damage
although i do notice that i bloom a little latter in the season than
most in
a controlled greenhouse, but i also notice that some of my plants
will
bloom
twice off of different leads instead of just once a year, i think it
might
be because of the hot temps in the gh i get more growth "jmho" i
also
take
all my plants into the garage when the temps get below 40 i have
lost
alot
of phal's at 38 so they stay in my office or in my house untill i
stays
at
50-55 all the time, i have lost too many of them to fool around and
hope
they make it
oh and yes i have a sherry baby that puts up with the temps and
seems to
allways put out 2 leads at a time
i also fert every time i water at 100% strength with 20-20-20after i
see
spikes and with 10-30-10 during growth and i flush with "clean tap
water
"
once a month
jim
i dont grow by the book, but hey it seems to be working and when
they
dont
grow i throw the book at them and then i dont grow those type any
more
"WNeptune" wrote in message
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I live in Canada & just started growing orchids in my unheated
sunroom. The winter temperature dips to about 50 deg F. So far I
have just started with some cool growers such as zygo's &
cymbidiums.
I have been reading with fascination about Sharry Baby and wonder
if
my environment can allow me to have one ...
I run two temperatures in my greenhouse-warm and cool. For years I
ran
the
cool
house at 48F at night, and 55F in the day; for the past two years
I
have
run
the house at 45F and 55F, and have seen no difference for the
plants
in
this
house-Onc Sharry Baby is one of the onc in this house.
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