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[Deep breath....].... I woke up this morning to a major, MAJOR disaster. You
see, I grow orchids on window sills, almost every window in the house is serving as a home to orchids. At night, it takes me about an hour to move the orchids from the sills to their night spots [we close the shades for the night]. The ones in my bedroom [Southern exposure] go under our bed [Our bed is 4 feet off the floor]. Some go on the external staircase [It leads to the basement from the side of the house; it goes down to the high 50'F's at night]. In the morning, I wake up an hour earlier so that I can place the orchids back on to the sills. This morning, to my complete horror, I noticed rodent bite marks on two new growths of a Laelia milleri. Laelia lobata took a severe hit as well, Catt maxima which I just received from a friend suffered too. The bulbo's took a big hit, on those they ate through the bulbs. I've already contacted an exterminator he is going to show up tonight. Meanwhile, I feel awful, I can not believe that this could happen, just like that, never ever thought that mice go for orchids.....isn't vanilla the only edible orchid? The very bummed, Mariana |
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Mariana,
That's terrible news. We at OrchidMania deal with the critters every start of winter - they get into the greenhouse when it gets colder in SF and do exactly what you described. Every year we buy a different brand of bait and it clears them out in a week. Finding the mouse mummy carcasses all year long sux, though. Good luck with the exterminator! -Eric in SF "GrlIntrpted" wrote in message . net... [Deep breath....].... I woke up this morning to a major, MAJOR disaster. You see, I grow orchids on window sills, almost every window in the house is serving as a home to orchids. At night, it takes me about an hour to move the orchids from the sills to their night spots [we close the shades for the night]. The ones in my bedroom [Southern exposure] go under our bed [Our bed is 4 feet off the floor]. Some go on the external staircase [It leads to the basement from the side of the house; it goes down to the high 50'F's at night]. In the morning, I wake up an hour earlier so that I can place the orchids back on to the sills. This morning, to my complete horror, I noticed rodent bite marks on two new growths of a Laelia milleri. Laelia lobata took a severe hit as well, Catt maxima which I just received from a friend suffered too. The bulbo's took a big hit, on those they ate through the bulbs. I've already contacted an exterminator he is going to show up tonight. Meanwhile, I feel awful, I can not believe that this could happen, just like that, never ever thought that mice go for orchids.....isn't vanilla the only edible orchid? The very bummed, Mariana |
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Mariana,
That's terrible news. We at OrchidMania deal with the critters every start of winter - they get into the greenhouse when it gets colder in SF and do exactly what you described. Every year we buy a different brand of bait and it clears them out in a week. Finding the mouse mummy carcasses all year long sux, though. Good luck with the exterminator! -Eric in SF "GrlIntrpted" wrote in message . net... [Deep breath....].... I woke up this morning to a major, MAJOR disaster. You see, I grow orchids on window sills, almost every window in the house is serving as a home to orchids. At night, it takes me about an hour to move the orchids from the sills to their night spots [we close the shades for the night]. The ones in my bedroom [Southern exposure] go under our bed [Our bed is 4 feet off the floor]. Some go on the external staircase [It leads to the basement from the side of the house; it goes down to the high 50'F's at night]. In the morning, I wake up an hour earlier so that I can place the orchids back on to the sills. This morning, to my complete horror, I noticed rodent bite marks on two new growths of a Laelia milleri. Laelia lobata took a severe hit as well, Catt maxima which I just received from a friend suffered too. The bulbo's took a big hit, on those they ate through the bulbs. I've already contacted an exterminator he is going to show up tonight. Meanwhile, I feel awful, I can not believe that this could happen, just like that, never ever thought that mice go for orchids.....isn't vanilla the only edible orchid? The very bummed, Mariana |
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Mariana,
That's terrible news. We at OrchidMania deal with the critters every start of winter - they get into the greenhouse when it gets colder in SF and do exactly what you described. Every year we buy a different brand of bait and it clears them out in a week. Finding the mouse mummy carcasses all year long sux, though. Good luck with the exterminator! -Eric in SF "GrlIntrpted" wrote in message . net... [Deep breath....].... I woke up this morning to a major, MAJOR disaster. You see, I grow orchids on window sills, almost every window in the house is serving as a home to orchids. At night, it takes me about an hour to move the orchids from the sills to their night spots [we close the shades for the night]. The ones in my bedroom [Southern exposure] go under our bed [Our bed is 4 feet off the floor]. Some go on the external staircase [It leads to the basement from the side of the house; it goes down to the high 50'F's at night]. In the morning, I wake up an hour earlier so that I can place the orchids back on to the sills. This morning, to my complete horror, I noticed rodent bite marks on two new growths of a Laelia milleri. Laelia lobata took a severe hit as well, Catt maxima which I just received from a friend suffered too. The bulbo's took a big hit, on those they ate through the bulbs. I've already contacted an exterminator he is going to show up tonight. Meanwhile, I feel awful, I can not believe that this could happen, just like that, never ever thought that mice go for orchids.....isn't vanilla the only edible orchid? The very bummed, Mariana |
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Xref: kermit rec.gardens.orchids:57072
Yikes!!!!! What a shame Mariana, I would have cried. I wonder if those electric gizmos work, you plug them in & they put out a high frequency noise & the rodents or critters leave? Hope you get those little sh one t's sorted out! Cheers Wendy Remove PETERPAN for email reply GrlIntrpted wrote: [Deep breath....].... I woke up this morning to a major, MAJOR disaster. You see, I grow orchids on window sills, almost every window in the house is serving as a home to orchids. At night, it takes me about an hour to move the orchids from the sills to their night spots [we close the shades for the night]. The ones in my bedroom [Southern exposure] go under our bed [Our bed is 4 feet off the floor]. Some go on the external staircase [It leads to the basement from the side of the house; it goes down to the high 50'F's at night]. In the morning, I wake up an hour earlier so that I can place the orchids back on to the sills. This morning, to my complete horror, I noticed rodent bite marks on two new growths of a Laelia milleri. Laelia lobata took a severe hit as well, Catt maxima which I just received from a friend suffered too. The bulbo's took a big hit, on those they ate through the bulbs. I've already contacted an exterminator he is going to show up tonight. Meanwhile, I feel awful, I can not believe that this could happen, just like that, never ever thought that mice go for orchids.....isn't vanilla the only edible orchid? The very bummed, Mariana |
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Xref: kermit rec.gardens.orchids:57072
Yikes!!!!! What a shame Mariana, I would have cried. I wonder if those electric gizmos work, you plug them in & they put out a high frequency noise & the rodents or critters leave? Hope you get those little sh one t's sorted out! Cheers Wendy Remove PETERPAN for email reply GrlIntrpted wrote: [Deep breath....].... I woke up this morning to a major, MAJOR disaster. You see, I grow orchids on window sills, almost every window in the house is serving as a home to orchids. At night, it takes me about an hour to move the orchids from the sills to their night spots [we close the shades for the night]. The ones in my bedroom [Southern exposure] go under our bed [Our bed is 4 feet off the floor]. Some go on the external staircase [It leads to the basement from the side of the house; it goes down to the high 50'F's at night]. In the morning, I wake up an hour earlier so that I can place the orchids back on to the sills. This morning, to my complete horror, I noticed rodent bite marks on two new growths of a Laelia milleri. Laelia lobata took a severe hit as well, Catt maxima which I just received from a friend suffered too. The bulbo's took a big hit, on those they ate through the bulbs. I've already contacted an exterminator he is going to show up tonight. Meanwhile, I feel awful, I can not believe that this could happen, just like that, never ever thought that mice go for orchids.....isn't vanilla the only edible orchid? The very bummed, Mariana |
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Xref: kermit rec.gardens.orchids:57072
Yikes!!!!! What a shame Mariana, I would have cried. I wonder if those electric gizmos work, you plug them in & they put out a high frequency noise & the rodents or critters leave? Hope you get those little sh one t's sorted out! Cheers Wendy Remove PETERPAN for email reply GrlIntrpted wrote: [Deep breath....].... I woke up this morning to a major, MAJOR disaster. You see, I grow orchids on window sills, almost every window in the house is serving as a home to orchids. At night, it takes me about an hour to move the orchids from the sills to their night spots [we close the shades for the night]. The ones in my bedroom [Southern exposure] go under our bed [Our bed is 4 feet off the floor]. Some go on the external staircase [It leads to the basement from the side of the house; it goes down to the high 50'F's at night]. In the morning, I wake up an hour earlier so that I can place the orchids back on to the sills. This morning, to my complete horror, I noticed rodent bite marks on two new growths of a Laelia milleri. Laelia lobata took a severe hit as well, Catt maxima which I just received from a friend suffered too. The bulbo's took a big hit, on those they ate through the bulbs. I've already contacted an exterminator he is going to show up tonight. Meanwhile, I feel awful, I can not believe that this could happen, just like that, never ever thought that mice go for orchids.....isn't vanilla the only edible orchid? The very bummed, Mariana |
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I'm beyond crying...I just went through the orchids on the western side of
the house, and ALL the ones with the new growth have been damaged. Interestingly, they spared the dendrobiums, some oncidiums as well as the phals and paphs. They really went for the bulbos, pleurs, catts and Laelias...I just hope that they wont die and will be able to restart a new growth... -M "wendy7" wrote in message news:s6p5c.9481$uh.3969@fed1read02... Yikes!!!!! What a shame Mariana, I would have cried. I wonder if those electric gizmos work, you plug them in & they put out a high frequency noise & the rodents or critters leave? Hope you get those little sh one t's sorted out! Cheers Wendy Remove PETERPAN for email reply GrlIntrpted wrote: [Deep breath....].... I woke up this morning to a major, MAJOR disaster. You see, I grow orchids on window sills, almost every window in the house is serving as a home to orchids. At night, it takes me about an hour to move the orchids from the sills to their night spots [we close the shades for the night]. The ones in my bedroom [Southern exposure] go under our bed [Our bed is 4 feet off the floor]. Some go on the external staircase [It leads to the basement from the side of the house; it goes down to the high 50'F's at night]. In the morning, I wake up an hour earlier so that I can place the orchids back on to the sills. This morning, to my complete horror, I noticed rodent bite marks on two new growths of a Laelia milleri. Laelia lobata took a severe hit as well, Catt maxima which I just received from a friend suffered too. The bulbo's took a big hit, on those they ate through the bulbs. I've already contacted an exterminator he is going to show up tonight. Meanwhile, I feel awful, I can not believe that this could happen, just like that, never ever thought that mice go for orchids.....isn't vanilla the only edible orchid? The very bummed, Mariana |
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I'm beyond crying...I just went through the orchids on the western side of
the house, and ALL the ones with the new growth have been damaged. Interestingly, they spared the dendrobiums, some oncidiums as well as the phals and paphs. They really went for the bulbos, pleurs, catts and Laelias...I just hope that they wont die and will be able to restart a new growth... -M "wendy7" wrote in message news:s6p5c.9481$uh.3969@fed1read02... Yikes!!!!! What a shame Mariana, I would have cried. I wonder if those electric gizmos work, you plug them in & they put out a high frequency noise & the rodents or critters leave? Hope you get those little sh one t's sorted out! Cheers Wendy Remove PETERPAN for email reply GrlIntrpted wrote: [Deep breath....].... I woke up this morning to a major, MAJOR disaster. You see, I grow orchids on window sills, almost every window in the house is serving as a home to orchids. At night, it takes me about an hour to move the orchids from the sills to their night spots [we close the shades for the night]. The ones in my bedroom [Southern exposure] go under our bed [Our bed is 4 feet off the floor]. Some go on the external staircase [It leads to the basement from the side of the house; it goes down to the high 50'F's at night]. In the morning, I wake up an hour earlier so that I can place the orchids back on to the sills. This morning, to my complete horror, I noticed rodent bite marks on two new growths of a Laelia milleri. Laelia lobata took a severe hit as well, Catt maxima which I just received from a friend suffered too. The bulbo's took a big hit, on those they ate through the bulbs. I've already contacted an exterminator he is going to show up tonight. Meanwhile, I feel awful, I can not believe that this could happen, just like that, never ever thought that mice go for orchids.....isn't vanilla the only edible orchid? The very bummed, Mariana |
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I'm beyond crying...I just went through the orchids on the western side of
the house, and ALL the ones with the new growth have been damaged. Interestingly, they spared the dendrobiums, some oncidiums as well as the phals and paphs. They really went for the bulbos, pleurs, catts and Laelias...I just hope that they wont die and will be able to restart a new growth... -M "wendy7" wrote in message news:s6p5c.9481$uh.3969@fed1read02... Yikes!!!!! What a shame Mariana, I would have cried. I wonder if those electric gizmos work, you plug them in & they put out a high frequency noise & the rodents or critters leave? Hope you get those little sh one t's sorted out! Cheers Wendy Remove PETERPAN for email reply GrlIntrpted wrote: [Deep breath....].... I woke up this morning to a major, MAJOR disaster. You see, I grow orchids on window sills, almost every window in the house is serving as a home to orchids. At night, it takes me about an hour to move the orchids from the sills to their night spots [we close the shades for the night]. The ones in my bedroom [Southern exposure] go under our bed [Our bed is 4 feet off the floor]. Some go on the external staircase [It leads to the basement from the side of the house; it goes down to the high 50'F's at night]. In the morning, I wake up an hour earlier so that I can place the orchids back on to the sills. This morning, to my complete horror, I noticed rodent bite marks on two new growths of a Laelia milleri. Laelia lobata took a severe hit as well, Catt maxima which I just received from a friend suffered too. The bulbo's took a big hit, on those they ate through the bulbs. I've already contacted an exterminator he is going to show up tonight. Meanwhile, I feel awful, I can not believe that this could happen, just like that, never ever thought that mice go for orchids.....isn't vanilla the only edible orchid? The very bummed, Mariana |
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"GrlIntrpted" writes:
not believe that this could happen, just like that, never ever thought that mice go for orchids.....isn't vanilla the only edible orchid? You can only hope. Geir |
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"GrlIntrpted" writes:
not believe that this could happen, just like that, never ever thought that mice go for orchids.....isn't vanilla the only edible orchid? You can only hope. Geir |
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"GrlIntrpted" writes:
not believe that this could happen, just like that, never ever thought that mice go for orchids.....isn't vanilla the only edible orchid? You can only hope. Geir |
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I tried the electronic gizmo. It did not work.
Bob "wendy7" wrote in message news:s6p5c.9481$uh.3969@fed1read02... Yikes!!!!! What a shame Mariana, I would have cried. I wonder if those electric gizmos work, you plug them in & they put out a high frequency noise & the rodents or critters leave? Hope you get those little sh one t's sorted out! Cheers Wendy Remove PETERPAN for email reply GrlIntrpted wrote: [Deep breath....].... I woke up this morning to a major, MAJOR disaster. You see, I grow orchids on window sills, almost every window in the house is serving as a home to orchids. At night, it takes me about an hour to move the orchids from the sills to their night spots [we close the shades for the night]. The ones in my bedroom [Southern exposure] go under our bed [Our bed is 4 feet off the floor]. Some go on the external staircase [It leads to the basement from the side of the house; it goes down to the high 50'F's at night]. In the morning, I wake up an hour earlier so that I can place the orchids back on to the sills. This morning, to my complete horror, I noticed rodent bite marks on two new growths of a Laelia milleri. Laelia lobata took a severe hit as well, Catt maxima which I just received from a friend suffered too. The bulbo's took a big hit, on those they ate through the bulbs. I've already contacted an exterminator he is going to show up tonight. Meanwhile, I feel awful, I can not believe that this could happen, just like that, never ever thought that mice go for orchids.....isn't vanilla the only edible orchid? The very bummed, Mariana |
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"wendy7" wrote in message news:s6p5c.9481$uh.3969@fed1read02...
Yikes!!!!! What a shame Mariana, I would have cried. I wonder if those electric gizmos work, you plug them in & they put out a high frequency noise & the rodents or critters leave? These "gizmos" are a fraud. They catch more suckers than mice. J. Del Col |
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