Phalenopsis
 

Just returned from a cruise, and on the ship in almost every
shelf in public spaces, they had phal orchids. Most of them had
two flower stalks almost identical in terms of size/age - how
do they (or their growers) achieve that?

Also they all lived in a warm atmosphere with electric lights
on 24 hrs/day.

Oh, and by the way, they were real/live plants, not
plastic/synthetic replicas :)


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Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

Phalenopsis
 

Roger we have just returned off Oceana's cruise to the Canaries and I
wondered how they did the Palms in the Atrium!!

Real again as you say.

Something I have noticed is that the flower on the table and in your cabin
is at bud stage when you join the ship and over the period of the cruise you
can see them 'progress'.

Mike



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"Roger Tonkin" wrote in message
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Just returned from a cruise, and on the ship in almost every
shelf in public spaces, they had phal orchids. Most of them had
two flower stalks almost identical in terms of size/age - how
do they (or their growers) achieve that?

Also they all lived in a warm atmosphere with electric lights
on 24 hrs/day.

Oh, and by the way, they were real/live plants, not
plastic/synthetic replicas :)


--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

Phalenopsis
 

In article ,
says...
Roger we have just returned off Oceana's cruise to the Canaries and I
wondered how they did the Palms in the Atrium!!





Did you have as bad a weather as we did. Storms, roads closed
so no trips ran, some islands missed out because ofr docking
problems due to the weather!

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Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

Phalenopsis
 

Yes, 8 and 9 metre waves and we couldn't go into Lisbon, we did Vigo
instead. Not sorry about that, done Lisbon to death!

Mike



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"Roger Tonkin" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...
Roger we have just returned off Oceana's cruise to the Canaries and I
wondered how they did the Palms in the Atrium!!





Did you have as bad a weather as we did. Storms, roads closed
so no trips ran, some islands missed out because ofr docking
problems due to the weather!

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales