I would recommend against misting the plants that often. The concept is to
raise the humidity - "wet the air", not the plants.

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"Maggie's Mom" wrote in message
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Thank you all for your input. Last Sunday I finally found shade cloth
(actually that was what the label said) hidden among bird netting at
Lowe's, I bought the desired length and installed it.

I believe it benefited not only the poor orchids, but other plants as
well. Even the cactus. Now I have to moisten the orchids few times a day,
spray bottle with distilled water works wonders in this climate. They seem
to enjoy it, and it makes me wonder: how about one of those fans with
water mist?

As soon as the house repairs are over, which takes up all my time, I will
get in touch with local orchid growers. Thanks for pointing them out to
me. I bet they will be very helpful, and my orchids will benefit from it.

And of course I need to straighten my typo up: I typed 5700 feet. It is
actually 4700 feet. Oops, just elevated my town 1000 feet. Hope nobody
noticed ;o)

Peace, - Maggie's Mom.


"Kenni Judd" wrote in message
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Susan: Thus the suggestion to seek more local help. The more important
point I was trying to make, which seems to be getting lost here, is that
Catts are not Oncids, Oncids are not Phals, etc. Treating them all
exactly alike is bound to make one or another of them unhappy.

Maggie's Mom: The folks at Fantasy are very nice, I've had lots of
dealings with them, although not in the last year or so, I think they
would try their best to steer you right. Kenni

Kenni - we are using a 67% shade cloth in our gh - 365 days a year..
We don't get the hours of FL sun, But we don't get the clouds or
storms either. We also have 360+ days of sun a year and 1 mile less
atmosphere, pollution, and fog to filter it. YES we get sun. (Don't
worry your not the only FL grower who assumed we did not have sun.)