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Aeroponics experiments...
Should work great, but be careful of sharing plant pathogens....
-- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info! "Duncan" wrote in message news:Y1Nwi.60432$_d2.20181@pd7urf3no... I am using a modified " pipe dreams" system. It is a 6" pvc pipe with three inch mesh baskets on 6" centers. Or is that 6'? i always get the foot and inch symbel(sp?) confused. There is a mister between every other basket. Works real nice as long as you keep the water cool(65F). I do approx 45sec on and aprrox 5 min off. I have done much longer off cycles with good results as well but the tubes tend to heat up a lot in hot weather. Any thing with a psuedobulb grows to insane size in no time. I had a Zygo flower 4 times in one year and compleatly burst the pot. The biggest things you have to watch for are the stem/rhizome getting to wet and salts accumulating when water wicks up. "?" wrote in message ... On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:52:59 GMT in fSmwi.58154$_d2.27926@pd7urf3no Duncan wrote: I bought a bunch(40) cold damaged phal's from Rona/Revy for $4 a few months ago to use as an experiment in an aeroponics system. So far i've only lost two and some were doubles so I am about even on that score. But the big suprise was when I repotted them. Four of the ones with tags were P amabalis and two of them were v.Formosa. A real nice bonus since I usually only grow species. So, what setup and what results on the aeroponics? -- Chris Dukes elfick willg: you can't use dell to beat people, it wouldn't stand up to the strain... much like attacking a tank with a wiffle bat |
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