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Orchid Inventory
Interesting stuff. Bob's log is great, but it looks like a lot of set up
work. The one I was keeping was similar to what Dave does. A few columns differ, but that's to be expected. Okay. Back to Excel, and off we go. Diana "Dave Gillingham" wrote in message ... Setting up the database (I use a spreadsheet) takes time. Once set up, the time in updating is trivial compared with the time to repot - & saves heaps of time subsequently. I'll post a small part of mine on abpo as one example. When you look at it, the blank entries for shelf information are those that will be repotted this spring, & so have not yet been entered. I only started including shelf info at last year's repot. On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:27:05 -0700, "K Barrett" wrote: I wound up re-entering a lot of names just so I could search the database easier. For example plants were listed as Blc, brassolaeliocattleya and every spelling in between. A computer genius I'm not but I learned consistency isn't a hobgoblin of small minds where databases are concerned, *G*. I wish she had recorded when each plant exited out of the collection. What initially looked like over 1000 plants on paper wound up being about 300 or so in real life. So far. We still have the outdoor plants to do. But again, it should be easy to mark who's present and accounted for.. K Barrett "Dave Gillingham" wrote in message . .. Kathy, there's another use as well as the unpleasant long term consideration. It helps no end in tracking repotting & other treatment needs. I also try to record *where* each plant is in my collection now. That's after searching & swearing, trying to find a particular plant (or many) that my database says should be repotted. And, while I don't keep it all as up to date as I should, I do ensure that each purchase, loss, repot, and position on shelf is recorded. For repotting, I find it far easier to sort the database by repot date than to work my way through the entire collection looking for the date of last repot on each tag. On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:50:55 -0700, "K Barrett" wrote: Marilyn Light (North American chair of the Orchid Specialist Group) used to give OrchidSafari chats on the idea of orchid conservation vis a vis hobbyist's orchid collections. Or to put it another way, since habitat is being lost our collections just may wind up housing important plants, maybe even one's no longer found in the wild. You may or may not agree with that idea but one of the things Marilyn used to stress was to keep and maintain a list of all your orchids, hybrids included, because some just might become important. Lo and behold, my mentor did keep a list of her orchids. More importantly she *maintained* the list! Dang, she even input purchases made just a few days before she died. (The woman was compulsive, *G*.) I can't tell you how easy it has been for her family to figure out what's in the GH. It only took a day to figure out what's still extant in her collection. Way more easy than the daunting task of cataloging what's in her library and potting shed. So, while Marilyn Light might have had some lofty goal, thinking that a list of what's in the GH could conserve orchids in the wild, in reality its made one facet of my mentor's heir's lives real easy. People here have mentioned their orchid databases, some that even include flowering records. *Kudos to you all!* I never really was 'together' enough to make a list of my orchids, much less keep it current but now I'm considering it and including my library's books, too. I figure my heirs deserve a clue as to what's worthwhile in all the crap they may want to dump or sell on eBay. K Barrett 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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