J Fortuna wrote:
I was wondering how many people here have a database for keeping track of
your orchids, and if you do what kind of info do you store in your database?

I use Filemaker Pro and have a single database for all my tropicals,
including the orchids. The fields include: Family, Genus and Species,
my accession number, other accession numbers (from source, etc),
natural habitat, source of plant, date of repotting, potting material,
date of blooming, photograph, and other comments (seedling
distributions, locality/collection data, unusual characteristics, etc).

I usually keep the file sorted by Family, Genus and species, and
accession number, but Filemaker lets me search and sort by any of the
fields. It also lets me maintain the database in multiple formats.
One format contains all the fields with each plant on a separate page,
and the second is a list for quick scanning or printing that contains
only Family, Genus and Species, and accession number.

Nick

I'm still using a spreadsheet, but it's getting unwieldy. As far as data, I
keep pretty much what all of the other posters do, sans the watering
schedule. There are too many variables to consider in my case, growing
outside.

I do add a hyperlink for each plant so I can know what each looks like.
Naturally, there are lots of plants that I can picture in my mind, but with
250 or so, it's easy to forget what some hybrids look like.

Diana

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:33:35 -0400, "Diana Kulaga"
wrote:

I'm still using a spreadsheet, but it's getting unwieldy. As far as data, I
keep pretty much what all of the other posters do, sans the watering
schedule. There are too many variables to consider in my case, growing
outside.

I do add a hyperlink for each plant so I can know what each looks like.
Naturally, there are lots of plants that I can picture in my mind, but with
250 or so, it's easy to forget what some hybrids look like.

Diana

We use Access but don't put in repot or bloom data - never
remembered to up date it anyway. We have a check box for the
photo or not and if it is checked I can look at the web site for
the date the pix was taken. Since we only photograph in bloom
and early in the cycle - it gives me a date at which to expect
blooms. We recently added a barcode for each pot. So that we
can get a more accurate inventory. Loosing plants or buying
duplicates without having it on the database bothered me.

We carry a version of the list on the pda while we shop. ThinkDB
is the pda application that takes the access file and condenses
it for pda use.




SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php