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Sometimes I am such a noo noo
You know, there are days when I really wonder about myself.
A month or so ago I bought an Aerangis luteoalba rhodosticta from Parkside Orchids. It's a little thing planted in a 2" clay pot. I've been babying it along in its special spot on the window sill waiting for it to adapt to its new environment. So, a while back this skinny green root pokes its nose out of the media. I think to myself "Man, that's a bit skinny for a root" so I gently poke around and examine it very carefully because I'm thinking that by some sort of miracle this might be a spike. It's long, wraps half way around the pot before it surfaces. It's absolutely smooth, no nodes or bumps that you might expect to see on a spike and it's blunt on the end like a root so I figure it's some kind of freak root and I gently push the tip down into the media where it can stay moist. No big deal, after all, that kind of thing occasionally happens when a plant is adapting to a new environment. Fast forward to this morning. The tip of the "root" is sticking out of the pot again and from my vantage point it looks a bit longer and skinnier and appears to have a bump near the tip. So, I go to the window sill intending to deal with this misbehaving orchid root and lo and behold it's no root, it's flower spike and there are now little flower buds along half the length of it. Now I get to somehow get this spike above ground and trained in some half decent shape so I can get a decent bloom. I feel like I've been hoodwinked by a plant, and a little punk, pint-sized one at that! Dave Sheehy |
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Sometimes I am such a noo noo
Dave,
Ha, ha, sounds like me, and most of the other orchid maniacs I know. We just can't believe it when things actually go right without our meddling. Enjoy it! Diana |
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