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OK, Dave G. It happened. (3 pics)
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You may recall my previous statement that "I don't grow dens" and Dave
Gillingham's urging that I really should. Some time after "the big freeze" that wiped out a 20-year collection, Rod Venger gave me a D. speciosum seedling, barely an inch and a half tall, 2 growths. It has now progressed to a :fist bloom seedling", some ten years of abuse later. As a reference, it's in an 8" basket, the double-spiked growth on the left is 27" tall, and the width, tip if spike to opposite leaves on right is 52". -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info! |
OK, Dave G. It happened. (3 pics)
Good work Ray, so it's about 11yrs old +- ?
Do you happen to have a varietal name as it looks just like my guy. I was at our local show here in Orange County & they are still a hot item & are going for $150 for 4 or 5 pseudos. Cheers Wendy "Ray B" wrote in message news:d2irj.335$gg1.0@trnddc01... You may recall my previous statement that "I don't grow dens" and Dave Gillingham's urging that I really should. Some time after "the big freeze" that wiped out a 20-year collection, Rod Venger gave me a D. speciosum seedling, barely an inch and a half tall, 2 growths. It has now progressed to a :fist bloom seedling", some ten years of abuse later. As a reference, it's in an 8" basket, the double-spiked growth on the left is 27" tall, and the width, tip if spike to opposite leaves on right is 52". -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info! |
OK, Dave G. It happened. (3 pics)
Sorry, Wendy. The tag is buried somewhere among all the pseudobulbs. I
won't know until I finally decide to break it up, but now that it's gotten this big, I hate to do it. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info! "Wendy7" wrote in message ... Good work Ray, so it's about 11yrs old +- ? Do you happen to have a varietal name as it looks just like my guy. I was at our local show here in Orange County & they are still a hot item & are going for $150 for 4 or 5 pseudos. Cheers Wendy "Ray B" wrote in message news:d2irj.335$gg1.0@trnddc01... You may recall my previous statement that "I don't grow dens" and Dave Gillingham's urging that I really should. Some time after "the big freeze" that wiped out a 20-year collection, Rod Venger gave me a D. speciosum seedling, barely an inch and a half tall, 2 growths. It has now progressed to a :fist bloom seedling", some ten years of abuse later. As a reference, it's in an 8" basket, the double-spiked growth on the left is 27" tall, and the width, tip if spike to opposite leaves on right is 52". -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info! |
OK, Dave G. It happened. (3 pics)
Great job, Ray! Don't know that I'd have the same amount of patience!
Diana "Ray B" wrote in message news:nGnrj.1005$qw4.266@trnddc02... Sorry, Wendy. The tag is buried somewhere among all the pseudobulbs. I won't know until I finally decide to break it up, but now that it's gotten this big, I hate to do it. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info! "Wendy7" wrote in message ... Good work Ray, so it's about 11yrs old +- ? Do you happen to have a varietal name as it looks just like my guy. I was at our local show here in Orange County & they are still a hot item & are going for $150 for 4 or 5 pseudos. Cheers Wendy "Ray B" wrote in message news:d2irj.335$gg1.0@trnddc01... You may recall my previous statement that "I don't grow dens" and Dave Gillingham's urging that I really should. Some time after "the big freeze" that wiped out a 20-year collection, Rod Venger gave me a D. speciosum seedling, barely an inch and a half tall, 2 growths. It has now progressed to a :fist bloom seedling", some ten years of abuse later. As a reference, it's in an 8" basket, the double-spiked growth on the left is 27" tall, and the width, tip if spike to opposite leaves on right is 52". -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info! |
OK, Dave G. It happened. (3 pics)
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 05:39:21 -0800, Ray B wrote
(in article d2irj.335$gg1.0@trnddc01): You may recall my previous statement that "I don't grow dens" and Dave Gillingham's urging that I really should. Some time after "the big freeze" that wiped out a 20-year collection, Rod Venger gave me a D. speciosum seedling, barely an inch and a half tall, 2 growths. It has now progressed to a :fist bloom seedling", some ten years of abuse later. As a reference, it's in an 8" basket, the double-spiked growth on the left is 27" tall, and the width, tip if spike to opposite leaves on right is 52". Good growing, Ray! Tom Walnut Creek, CA Nikon D200 |
OK, Dave G. It happened. (3 pics)
Congratulations, Ray. For a first blooming, that's a beauty.
Re your reply to Wendy, about breaking it up: In the wild they grow to huge plants. Ross Harvey, to whose website I referred you, talks of dividing his with a chainsaw - and he's only half joking! I'm not very knowledgeable on id-ing the sundry varieties of speciosum and, once line breeding comes into play, who knows anyhow. But to me it looks rather like variety hillii, which grows in SE Queensland & NE New South Wales. Comments from the other Aussies? On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:39:21 GMT, "Ray B" wrote: You may recall my previous statement that "I don't grow dens" and Dave Gillingham's urging that I really should. Some time after "the big freeze" that wiped out a 20-year collection, Rod Venger gave me a D. speciosum seedling, barely an inch and a half tall, 2 growths. It has now progressed to a :fist bloom seedling", some ten years of abuse later. As a reference, it's in an 8" basket, the double-spiked growth on the left is 27" tall, and the width, tip if spike to opposite leaves on right is 52". Dave Gillingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To email me remove the .private from my email address. |
OK, Dave G. It happened. (3 pics)
How nice! I've been lusting after one of these. SBOE has a few hybrids
that may be easier to bloom, but still...nothing beats 'em when the bloom! K Barrett "Ray B" wrote in message news:d2irj.335$gg1.0@trnddc01... You may recall my previous statement that "I don't grow dens" and Dave Gillingham's urging that I really should. Some time after "the big freeze" that wiped out a 20-year collection, Rod Venger gave me a D. speciosum seedling, barely an inch and a half tall, 2 growths. It has now progressed to a :fist bloom seedling", some ten years of abuse later. As a reference, it's in an 8" basket, the double-spiked growth on the left is 27" tall, and the width, tip if spike to opposite leaves on right is 52". -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info! |
OK, Dave G. It happened. (3 pics)
Doesn't hillii have shorter more stout pseudobulbs???
Kye. "Dave Gillingham" wrote in message ... Congratulations, Ray. For a first blooming, that's a beauty. Re your reply to Wendy, about breaking it up: In the wild they grow to huge plants. Ross Harvey, to whose website I referred you, talks of dividing his with a chainsaw - and he's only half joking! I'm not very knowledgeable on id-ing the sundry varieties of speciosum and, once line breeding comes into play, who knows anyhow. But to me it looks rather like variety hillii, which grows in SE Queensland & NE New South Wales. Comments from the other Aussies? On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:39:21 GMT, "Ray B" wrote: You may recall my previous statement that "I don't grow dens" and Dave Gillingham's urging that I really should. Some time after "the big freeze" that wiped out a 20-year collection, Rod Venger gave me a D. speciosum seedling, barely an inch and a half tall, 2 growths. It has now progressed to a :fist bloom seedling", some ten years of abuse later. As a reference, it's in an 8" basket, the double-spiked growth on the left is 27" tall, and the width, tip if spike to opposite leaves on right is 52". Dave Gillingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To email me remove the .private from my email address. |
OK, Dave G. It happened. (3 pics)
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Not really. See tha attached pic of what I *know* to be speciosum var hillii.
You may be thinking of var speciosum, var curvicaule, or var capricornicum - in relative terms tha last is definitely short & stubby - p'bulbs only to 18" or so. But so thick that one of our members refers to it as "a speciosum with muscles" or " speciosum on steroids". Graham, in your vast archives of our bushwalk photos, could you repost a photo of a nice big hillii blooming in nature? On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:22:13 GMT, "Kye" wrote: Doesn't hillii have shorter more stout pseudobulbs??? Kye. "Dave Gillingham" wrote in message .. . Congratulations, Ray. For a first blooming, that's a beauty. Re your reply to Wendy, about breaking it up: In the wild they grow to huge plants. Ross Harvey, to whose website I referred you, talks of dividing his with a chainsaw - and he's only half joking! I'm not very knowledgeable on id-ing the sundry varieties of speciosum and, once line breeding comes into play, who knows anyhow. But to me it looks rather like variety hillii, which grows in SE Queensland & NE New South Wales. Comments from the other Aussies? On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:39:21 GMT, "Ray B" wrote: You may recall my previous statement that "I don't grow dens" and Dave Gillingham's urging that I really should. Some time after "the big freeze" that wiped out a 20-year collection, Rod Venger gave me a D. speciosum seedling, barely an inch and a half tall, 2 growths. It has now progressed to a :fist bloom seedling", some ten years of abuse later. As a reference, it's in an 8" basket, the double-spiked growth on the left is 27" tall, and the width, tip if spike to opposite leaves on right is 52". Dave Gillingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To email me remove the .private from my email address. Dave Gillingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To email me remove the .private from my email address. |
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