Which foods for orchids?
"Compost",
"Coco Husk", "Sphagnum Moss", "Orchid Focus Feed", "Superthrive vitamin-hormone", "Mineral Magic clay powder organic matter", "Diamond Nectar Fulvic Acid", "Bio Essentials micro nutrients", "Clonex rooting gel", "Hydroton Clay Pellets", "Superdrive natural additive", "Humic Acid Concentrate Liquid" "AAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHH!"... I read orchids were easy to grow; this list I've found complicates it all... My idea of growing plants was 'seed/bulb', 'dirt', 'water', 'light' & 'time'... Is the above list necessary? What are their merit? |
Which foods for orchids?
wrote in message ... I have three fertilizers for my Orchids and they thrive. "Compost", "Coco Husk", "Sphagnum Moss", "Orchid Focus Feed", "Superthrive vitamin-hormone", "Mineral Magic clay powder organic matter", "Diamond Nectar Fulvic Acid", "Bio Essentials micro nutrients", "Clonex rooting gel", "Hydroton Clay Pellets", "Superdrive natural additive", "Humic Acid Concentrate Liquid" "AAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHH!"... I read orchids were easy to grow; this list I've found complicates it all... My idea of growing plants was 'seed/bulb', 'dirt', 'water', 'light' & 'time'... Is the above list necessary? What are their merit? |
Which foods for orchids?
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Which foods for orchids?
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Phoon Hencman wrote: On 2007-11-22 15:30:10 -0500, said: "Compost", "Coco Husk", "Sphagnum Moss", "Orchid Focus Feed", "Superthrive vitamin-hormone", "Mineral Magic clay powder organic matter", "Diamond Nectar Fulvic Acid", "Bio Essentials micro nutrients", "Clonex rooting gel", "Hydroton Clay Pellets", "Superdrive natural additive", "Humic Acid Concentrate Liquid" "AAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHH!"... I read orchids were easy to grow; this list I've found complicates it all... My idea of growing plants was 'seed/bulb', 'dirt', 'water', 'light' & 'time'... Is the above list necessary? What are their merit? You don't need any of that stuff. You could use Miracle grow to feed at half strength every other watering or 2 during the growing season. Superthrive isn't fertilizer, as a matter of fact it's snake oil. Since orchids are epiphytes, you don't need to worry about dirt. -- Billy Bush & Cheney, Behind Bars |
Which foods for orchids?
"Jangchub" wrote in message ... On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:16:29 -0500, Phoon Hencman wrote: [snip] it depends on what kind of orchids you have and there is an entire library in every imaginable form on the Internet. I recommend you visit on of the thousands of websites which give explicit instruction on growing orchids. They are very easy to grow if you have all the right conditions. Or -- Orchid care is overstated. Don't obsess over the "right" conditions -- orchids are incredibly easy to grow and VERY forgiving, especially in Florida or Hawaii. You just go out and buy some inexpensive orchids and give them some water/orchid fertilizer mix every once in a while. When I see one that I like (both price and color) I'll buy it, stick it in with the others I've bought in a shelter I've made, and water/fertilize them whenever it occurs to me. After four years I've got an oncidium that's 3' around with flower stalks 5' long, a garden full of epidendrum radicans "ground cover", a vanda terrete that's 10' tall growing in a Royal Poinciana, a couple of Cattleyas that flower twice a year that I've tied into the trunk of Australian tree ferns, some Cymbiums that have naturalized in the ground, and others. The Phaleonopsis ("Moth Orchids") don't seem to like this routine -- probably too much water during our rainy summers. My solution -- I don't buy them any more. Orchids here take a lot less care than roses or most other landscape plants. It's only when you decide you want the perfect blooms or want to do some hybridizing or you decide to make it a really serious hobby that it starts to take up your time, so start with cheap and easy, keep them out of the cold and don't let them get direct sun. They'll tell you what they need after that. |
Which foods for orchids?
wrote in message ... "Compost", "Coco Husk", "Sphagnum Moss", "Orchid Focus Feed", "Superthrive vitamin-hormone", "Mineral Magic clay powder organic matter", "Diamond Nectar Fulvic Acid", "Bio Essentials micro nutrients", "Clonex rooting gel", "Hydroton Clay Pellets", "Superdrive natural additive", "Humic Acid Concentrate Liquid" "AAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHH!"... I read orchids were easy to grow; this list I've found complicates it all... My idea of growing plants was 'seed/bulb', 'dirt', 'water', 'light' & 'time'... Is the above list necessary? What are their merit? Good info at http://www.gardeners.com/Growing-Orc...ault/5072.page |
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