Stupidest thing I've done growing orchids
Is it just me, or have other newbies done really STUPID things to their
plants? My top two: (1) While vacuuming a corner of the sunroom, I took off the sweeper attachment and used just the vacuum tube. When I turned to maneuver the hose, I sucked up an orchid while I was looking the other way. (2) When I bought my first Nobile dendrobium, it bloomed then dropped its leaves. I though that it must be like a phal's bloom spikes and promptly cut off all the canes at their base. Then I read the orchid book for instructions on what to do next... Sometimes, people ask me whether I'm worried that my cats will do harm to the orchids. Well, no. The orchids' biggest danger is probably from me. |
Stupidest thing I've done growing orchids
Here's a news flash for you: you don't need to be a newbie to do really
weird things in the orchid world! We all have our horror stories here. Not long ago, I posted a mea culpa. I was repotting a Phal and showing my husband how delicate the new leaf was, and then I promptly snapped it off. Duh....... Diana, whose cat nuzzles the 6 foot Dend on the patio but never hurts it. |
Stupidest thing I've done growing orchids
Stupid you said...
After waiting for over a year, one of my Phal finally spike! Once the spike was about 4 inch long, I wanted to attached it to a bamboo stick.... and boum.... I snapped the Spike! I`m still waiting for this one to spike again.... Talk about stupid Claude "Diana Kulaga" wrote in message hlink.net... | Here's a news flash for you: you don't need to be a newbie to do really | weird things in the orchid world! We all have our horror stories here. Not | long ago, I posted a mea culpa. I was repotting a Phal and showing my | husband how delicate the new leaf was, and then I promptly snapped it off. | | Duh....... | | Diana, whose cat nuzzles the 6 foot Dend on the patio but never hurts it. | | |
Stupidest thing I've done growing orchids
I haven't done anything stupid...Yet.
Give me time though, I've only had orchids for about 2 weeks. Shell "Claude" wrote in message ... Stupid you said... After waiting for over a year, one of my Phal finally spike! Once the spike was about 4 inch long, I wanted to attached it to a bamboo stick.... and boum.... I snapped the Spike! I`m still waiting for this one to spike again.... Talk about stupid Claude "Diana Kulaga" wrote in message hlink.net... | Here's a news flash for you: you don't need to be a newbie to do really | weird things in the orchid world! We all have our horror stories here. Not | long ago, I posted a mea culpa. I was repotting a Phal and showing my | husband how delicate the new leaf was, and then I promptly snapped it off. | | Duh....... | | Diana, whose cat nuzzles the 6 foot Dend on the patio but never hurts it. | | |
Stupidest thing I've done growing orchids
Thanks for the chuckle.
That's right up there with Al's cutting a phal spike off right after the person bought the plant. The look of horror on the person's face was the first clue he had that he'd done something wrong.... (he'd been snipping spikes off phals that were too immature to bloom well, so he was in 'snipping mode') Oh... I guess I'm suppose to mention the stupid things I've done to my orchids... Nothing as funny as yours though. I usually knock over plants I want to bring in for judging, ruining the flowers. I've done that so many times I don't even freak anymore. K Barrett "dd" wrote in message ... Is it just me, or have other newbies done really STUPID things to their plants? My top two: (1) While vacuuming a corner of the sunroom, I took off the sweeper attachment and used just the vacuum tube. When I turned to maneuver the hose, I sucked up an orchid while I was looking the other way. (2) When I bought my first Nobile dendrobium, it bloomed then dropped its leaves. I though that it must be like a phal's bloom spikes and promptly cut off all the canes at their base. Then I read the orchid book for instructions on what to do next... Sometimes, people ask me whether I'm worried that my cats will do harm to the orchids. Well, no. The orchids' biggest danger is probably from me. |
Stupidest thing I've done growing orchids
OK, here's mine. I bought my first paph in bloom, it was only a single
growth. When it started to put out its first new growth, I snapped it off and potted it up. Well, it took 4 years, but that growth did eventually bloom ... dd wrote: Is it just me, or have other newbies done really STUPID things to their plants? My top two: (1) While vacuuming a corner of the sunroom, I took off the sweeper attachment and used just the vacuum tube. When I turned to maneuver the hose, I sucked up an orchid while I was looking the other way. (2) When I bought my first Nobile dendrobium, it bloomed then dropped its leaves. I though that it must be like a phal's bloom spikes and promptly cut off all the canes at their base. Then I read the orchid book for instructions on what to do next... Sometimes, people ask me whether I'm worried that my cats will do harm to the orchids. Well, no. The orchids' biggest danger is probably from me. |
Stupidest thing I've done growing orchids
My stupidest was getting mad because the SLC I had just had that ugly old
brown sheath and wasn't blooming. Cut off the paper thin sheath that suddenly didn't feel so paper thin any more...and through the juicy green buds inside! Since then, I leave those ugly sheaths on the plant as long as they want to stay! -- Reka http://www.rolbox.it/hukari/index.html "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." --Winston Churchill "dd" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... Is it just me, or have other newbies done really STUPID things to their plants? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 19.08.03 |
Stupidest thing I've done growing orchids
Stupidest thing I've ever done? Growing orchids in the first place.
You can't believe the amount of time and money I've "wasted" since that day! -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! .. . . . . . . . . . . "Reka" wrote in message ... My stupidest was getting mad because the SLC I had just had that ugly old brown sheath and wasn't blooming. Cut off the paper thin sheath that suddenly didn't feel so paper thin any more...and through the juicy green buds inside! Since then, I leave those ugly sheaths on the plant as long as they want to stay! -- Reka http://www.rolbox.it/hukari/index.html "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." --Winston Churchill "dd" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... Is it just me, or have other newbies done really STUPID things to their plants? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 19.08.03 |
Stupidest thing I've done growing orchids
Well theres your first mistake.... Get out NOW while you still can !
Kye. "Shell91" wrote in message . com... I haven't done anything stupid...Yet. Give me time though, I've only had orchids for about 2 weeks. Shell "Claude" wrote in message ... Stupid you said... After waiting for over a year, one of my Phal finally spike! Once the spike was about 4 inch long, I wanted to attached it to a bamboo stick.... and boum.... I snapped the Spike! I`m still waiting for this one to spike again.... Talk about stupid Claude "Diana Kulaga" wrote in message hlink.net... | Here's a news flash for you: you don't need to be a newbie to do really | weird things in the orchid world! We all have our horror stories here. Not | long ago, I posted a mea culpa. I was repotting a Phal and showing my | husband how delicate the new leaf was, and then I promptly snapped it off. | | Duh....... | | Diana, whose cat nuzzles the 6 foot Dend on the patio but never hurts it. | | |
Stupidest thing I've done growing orchids
Well theres your first mistake.... Get out NOW while you still can !
Kye. "Shell91" wrote in message . com... I haven't done anything stupid...Yet. Give me time though, I've only had orchids for about 2 weeks. Shell "Claude" wrote in message ... Stupid you said... After waiting for over a year, one of my Phal finally spike! Once the spike was about 4 inch long, I wanted to attached it to a bamboo stick.... and boum.... I snapped the Spike! I`m still waiting for this one to spike again.... Talk about stupid Claude "Diana Kulaga" wrote in message hlink.net... | Here's a news flash for you: you don't need to be a newbie to do really | weird things in the orchid world! We all have our horror stories here. Not | long ago, I posted a mea culpa. I was repotting a Phal and showing my | husband how delicate the new leaf was, and then I promptly snapped it off. | | Duh....... | | Diana, whose cat nuzzles the 6 foot Dend on the patio but never hurts it. | | |
Stupidest thing I've done growing orchids
My worst mistake: 2 years back my dendrobium delicatum had started making a
lot of infloressences, and when I saw the plant, all dried up and with a lot of brown leaves, I tolk pitty on it and watered it. Thing is all the nice infloressences withered off. I had forgotten that you schould'nt water the darn thing when it is about to bloom. So I had to wait another 2 years for bloom, getting four small flowers for the first time in 10 years last spring. Cheers Peter "dd" schreef in bericht ... Is it just me, or have other newbies done really STUPID things to their plants? My top two: (1) While vacuuming a corner of the sunroom, I took off the sweeper attachment and used just the vacuum tube. When I turned to maneuver the hose, I sucked up an orchid while I was looking the other way. (2) When I bought my first Nobile dendrobium, it bloomed then dropped its leaves. I though that it must be like a phal's bloom spikes and promptly cut off all the canes at their base. Then I read the orchid book for instructions on what to do next... Sometimes, people ask me whether I'm worried that my cats will do harm to the orchids. Well, no. The orchids' biggest danger is probably from me. |
Stupidest thing I've done growing orchids
I posted my story years ago when I first joined this wonderful group.
I had two orchids, one a phal a gift, the other a dendrobium. My dear hubby had enclosed my patio for me complete with electrical outlets & one of those indoor ceiling fans. Well the phal had a spike with bud & 1 flower open. I was so proud, I held it up to show my husband & "whop"!!!! You guessed it, the dreaded ceiling fan was running! I didn't have to ask the most popular question ever posted on this news group!*G* Cheers Wendy "Boystrup Pb, ann,..." wrote in message .be... My worst mistake: 2 years back my dendrobium delicatum had started making a lot of infloressences, and when I saw the plant, all dried up and with a lot of brown leaves, I tolk pitty on it and watered it. Thing is all the nice infloressences withered off. I had forgotten that you schould'nt water the darn thing when it is about to bloom. So I had to wait another 2 years for bloom, getting four small flowers for the first time in 10 years last spring. Cheers Peter "dd" schreef in bericht ... Is it just me, or have other newbies done really STUPID things to their plants? My top two: (1) While vacuuming a corner of the sunroom, I took off the sweeper attachment and used just the vacuum tube. When I turned to maneuver the hose, I sucked up an orchid while I was looking the other way. (2) When I bought my first Nobile dendrobium, it bloomed then dropped its leaves. I though that it must be like a phal's bloom spikes and promptly cut off all the canes at their base. Then I read the orchid book for instructions on what to do next... Sometimes, people ask me whether I'm worried that my cats will do harm to the orchids. Well, no. The orchids' biggest danger is probably from me. |
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