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Who We Are revisited
Who am I?
Well that is the question I ask on a weekly basis and it is always evolvin. They call me Nanook (big Zappa fan...Frank that is) male Where am I? Where do I grow? Atlanta and one hundred miles south in Roberta Georgia. All over the house, In a propagation room downstairs und er HFL, HPS, and MH lights as well as regular Floros everywhere,on a sun porch (all glass) on a deck, in the trees, hangin under the overhang of the house in ATL. around the pool, in an out building and in a sun porch in Roberta. What do I grow? Mainly just Stanhopeas from flask. I buy from all over the world, either ordering or going and hand picking the flasks I want myself. It's a good excuse to get away. I do have a couple hundred other types but they are just for blooms to make the wife unit happy. Gosh, no telling how many actuall orchids I have. So many are compots of twenty to sixty plants. I also board for a few people. I'm guessin at 800 to 1000 The decade of my age? 4th How long have I been growing orchids? All my life I have had one or two here and there but my wife gave me a Phal for valantines day some 6 or 8 years ago and that kicked it into high gear. My mother was a huge house plant grower and garden club addict. We also grew all our own organic food, vegies, rabbits and chickens. I was a very large scale pot farmer as a teen, where I experimented with Hydro, sort of what what Ray calls semi-hydro and the ebb and flow. My biggest accomplishment? I am still working on it. The right medium and basket or mount to grow a Stan as a house plant in regular house humidity. But the main accomplishment is just learning on my own how to raise all types from flask. Misc info Am orig from Al been a motorcycle street racer and mechanic. Learned a now useless skill of TV repair back in the 70s. Organic chem. to learn how to manufacture substances for abuse. Office equip repair and computer output microfilm Field service covered southern US 20 years in microfilm and scanning in the banking industry. The same 20 years also was house electrician, master electrician and board opp for live theatre. Now work for the Atl Journal and the New York Times as an IT guy, comp satt. uplink, film proc., proofers Imagers on and on...... Am lookin to give it up and just raise plants |
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