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Hello Joanna!
My collection consist of: 37 Phals 2 Oncidium 2 Paph and 42 phals babies Claude "J Fortuna" wrote in message news:43Xwd.308$1U6.157@trnddc09... | This post was inspired by Dave Gillingham's moving story in the Who We Are | thread (which by the way I continue to enjoy immensely, and am very glad to | read each new post there). | | Dave's story makes me wonder what the cutoff point is for when a collection | becomes to large to rejoice over every individual plant's new leaf, new | root, and new spike. My collection currently consists of 31 orchids, and I | still watch every one carefully and rejoice over each activity of each | plant. | | I know that Claude also does that, and I have the impression that Claude's | collection is somewhat larger than mine, though I'm not sure about that. I | checked Claude's post in Who We Are as well as Claude's Web site, but I did | not see the total number of plants in your collection, Claude? | | Anyway, it appears that somewhere between 31 plants (my current number) and | about 200 (Dave's current number) one can no longer keep track of each as an | individual and rejoice in each one. I wonder what the cutoff number is? Of | course, I know that this cutoff will vary somewhat based on the individual's | determination and the amount of time available to spend with plants and | maybe some other variables, but: What is the largest number of orchids in a | collection that a single human being can report keeping track of in an | individualized way, rejoicing over each one's activity? | | This is not just a rhetorical question. I really want to know. And then I | will try not to exceed that number if at all possible. Well, probably it | will not be possible since I am an orchid addict and I feel the craving for | new orchids at most a month after the last orchid was bought. But I might | try to postpone the inevitable if I know that exceeding x amount will lead | to a dire consequence such as the de-indivualization of individual orchids. | | Joanna | | |
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