On 19/10/2012 18:51, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 19/10/2012 17:53, Bob Hobden wrote:
"David Hill" wrote

Martin wrote:
vicky wrote:

Martin wrote:
although I would change the watering to weekly or two weekly unless
it's in
a tropical temperature heated room.

I don't think any of my orchids have a problem with my slightly
random
watering system, other than when they get accidentally lost and left
unwatered for rather a long time.

Ours are in a centrally heated living room and get watered once a
week and occasionally less.

Dendrobium, or something else?

My wife who bought them says yes Denrobium. I'm not so sure. The local
growers grow Cymbidium. The orchids that we have are white.

Change of Orchid
In Lidl today they have just had Ludisia (Jewel orchid) in, nice plants,
I'm trying 2 though I have never seen them before.
http://www.orchid-care-tips.com/jewel-orchid.html

Not the easiest to grow IME David, that's Prosthechea cochleata (I think
that's it's latest name!!).

It's a strange plant. I had one many years ago which grew well for 3 or
4 years, throwing up several new stems. Then one year it just stopped
growing, then died. As to the flowers, they're nothing special - it's
grown for the foliage.

I thought that for 2 for £6.00 they were worth trying