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A lesson in moving orchids
I learned a very important lesson yesterday. I was moving an Oncidium full of
buds from work to home last evening and brought it all the way home. For those few seconds when I was more interested in getting stuff out of the car, I forgot all about the spike... lifted the pot and heard a snap. I can't believe I did that to the plant. And after watching the thing grow for SO long. Had anyone else done that to one of my plants... I would have had a great argument with them... but it turns out that I did it myself. All I can say is, it sucks... So what did I learn? Don't ever move an orchid unless you are paying full attention and if it has spikes, think a few times, before so much as taking it anywhere near an automobile. Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait and see if it will spike again. Johnny McIntyre |
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A lesson in moving orchids
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:35:34 +0000, J X M wrote:
I learned a very important lesson yesterday. I was moving an Oncidium full of buds from work to home last evening and brought it all the way home. For those few seconds when I was more interested in getting stuff out of the car, I forgot all about the spike... lifted the pot and heard a snap. I can't believe I did that to the plant. And after watching the thing grow for SO long. Had anyone else done that to one of my plants... I would have had a great argument with them... but it turns out that I did it myself. All I can say is, it sucks... So what did I learn? Don't ever move an orchid unless you are paying full attention and if it has spikes, think a few times, before so much as taking it anywhere near an automobile. Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait and see if it will spike again. Johnny McIntyre Oh man that stinks. It takes so long for these things to spike and to have it break is horrible. Sorry to hear about it. Better luck next time on that one! Guess you should go out and get another one to make up for it though! |
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A lesson in moving orchids
Johnny,
Sorry to hear about your bad luck. Yes, cars and spikes definitely do not go together well. I once broke a spike because I had briefly placed the pot on the car seat to try to grab something else, and the pot fell over and the spike broke. :-( However, it works better if there are at least two people in the car, that way one person can be designated to pay full attention to the plant. When you have two people, when entering or exiting the car, one person can be seated and the other standing outside, and they can pass the plant between them. I have found that this helps. Hope that you have lots of other orchids to keep your mind from lingering too long on this broken spike. Joanna "J X M" wrote in message ail.com... I learned a very important lesson yesterday. I was moving an Oncidium full of buds from work to home last evening and brought it all the way home. For those few seconds when I was more interested in getting stuff out of the car, I forgot all about the spike... lifted the pot and heard a snap. I can't believe I did that to the plant. And after watching the thing grow for SO long. Had anyone else done that to one of my plants... I would have had a great argument with them... but it turns out that I did it myself. All I can say is, it sucks... So what did I learn? Don't ever move an orchid unless you are paying full attention and if it has spikes, think a few times, before so much as taking it anywhere near an automobile. Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait and see if it will spike again. Johnny McIntyre |
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A lesson in moving orchids
Hello! Sorry about it!
One day, I went to buy a Phal, two spike! The seller put it in a nice box and I went to the car. Inside the car, I was too excited to see the plant that when I opened the box, I cut both spike! It`s been almost 2 years ans my Phal. Baldan`s kaleidoscope is now spiking! Shuutt...... Claude "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... | Johnny, | | Sorry to hear about your bad luck. | | Yes, cars and spikes definitely do not go together well. I once broke a | spike because I had briefly placed the pot on the car seat to try to grab | something else, and the pot fell over and the spike broke. :-( | | However, it works better if there are at least two people in the car, that | way one person can be designated to pay full attention to the plant. When | you have two people, when entering or exiting the car, one person can be | seated and the other standing outside, and they can pass the plant between | them. I have found that this helps. | | Hope that you have lots of other orchids to keep your mind from lingering | too long on this broken spike. | | Joanna | | "J X M" wrote in message | ail.com... | I learned a very important lesson yesterday. I was moving an Oncidium full | of | buds from work to home last evening and brought it all the way home. For | those | few seconds when I was more interested in getting stuff out of the car, I | forgot | all about the spike... lifted the pot and heard a snap. I can't believe I | did | that to the plant. And after watching the thing grow for SO long. | | Had anyone else done that to one of my plants... I would have had a great | argument with them... but it turns out that I did it myself. All I can say | is, | it sucks... So what did I learn? Don't ever move an orchid unless you are | paying | full attention and if it has spikes, think a few times, before so much as | taking | it anywhere near an automobile. | | Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait and see if it will spike again. | | Johnny McIntyre | | |
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A lesson in moving orchids
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:35:34 GMT, J X M
wrote: I learned a very important lesson yesterday. I've got to evacuate my leat-to green house next month to treat my house for dry wood termites. Thank goodness I've got a large live oak in the back yard for temporary shelter in what will be blistering July conditions here in sunny Florida. I'm not looking forward to that project. Sorry to hear about the spike. bb |
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A lesson in moving orchids
The dreaded *snap*!
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A lesson in moving orchids
JXM,
It wasn't an accident. They all break when you put a blooming orchid in a car. The orchid that makes it out of the car at the end of the journey still in perfect condition is the exception to the rule... not the rule. Mick |
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A lesson in moving orchids
Mick,
I very much agree. I transported a five foot Aranda to the last society meeting and no one really looked at it as it was so tall, and I lost a couple of the flowers -- glad I did not hybridize the blooms. And, even with cotton packing you may still lose a few flowers as it is easy to bump a tall one when placing it into the car. And, sometimes the late-comers to society meetings will take and push the ones on the table to the back (and they are only flowers but I have to grin when I see it) so that they can set theirs in front, and if there are a lot of blooms as in the case of some intricately twined Mormodes peruviana then they are dust. But, then again, I, however, have lost a few Zygopetalum spikes just tying them as the stems are often soft and am guilty of doing other accidental damage to my own. So, bad things happen. .. . . Pam Everything Orchid Management System http://www.pe.net/~profppam/page3.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mick Fournier wrote: JXM, It wasn't an accident. They all break when you put a blooming orchid in a car. The orchid that makes it out of the car at the end of the journey still in perfect condition is the exception to the rule... not the rule. Mick |
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