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We need to start a thread on potting etc. The steps one takes to do this & any tips. Cheers Wendy

Hi Jean and Wendy! Wendy- I do have one potting tip to share up front. I learned this one the hard way last night… When potting up plants and using the big box of foam peanuts you have assembled over the years to do a drainage layer, make sure you are not letting any of those biodegradable ones get in there Tom.

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Happy Easter to you too Tom,     About your date?  You had fun & saved a lot of money!!! *g* We need to start a thread on potting etc. The steps one takes to do this & any tips. Cheers Wendy

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello everyone! Well tonight one my friends is taking his latest fling to dinner. Another is out clubbing. Me? tonight I had a hot date with a bag of seedling bark and four severely overgrown compots. But it it has been fun. Tonight was the first night in years that I sat down and potted out community pots. When I was 14, my first paying job ever ($100 a week in plants) was with Orchids and Ferns in Houston doing mostly potting. So for some wierd reason it has become my favorite orchid related activity and very relaxing. It has been a rough 2 months, and I needed this. However- this post is about Paphs! So here we go! Remember the red bud I was so psyched about last week? Well, it came out great on color, but form is not so hot. Those petals are just too closed in. Maybe this will do better on second bloom, but I think this one is headed for the silent auction table at Thursday’s orchid meeting, http://members.aol.com/elpaninaro/red.jpg The real surprise is this next one though! Same cross, believe it or not. This one bloomed two weeks ago and I took it into work for the week. When I brought it back home and put it back under the lights, the flower flattened more and got quite a bit larger too! This one is a keeper I think. It is really something and just the sort of complex Paph I DREAM about LOL… http://members.aol.com/elpaninaro/cool.jpg Finally, good news on that kolopakingii x haynaldianum I showed last week. It took a few days, but the dorsals are rising on this and the flower has expanded to well over six inches across! still not sure if I am going to keep this one, but I am tempted. It has a new growth about 50% larger than this first bloom growth, so it could get a lot better. Also I found out the hybrid name here is Puppentanz- German for "Dancing Doll." A very appropriate choice!… http://members.aol.com/elpaninaro/puppentanz.jpg Well that is all for pics. One more post tonight on my orchid nursery visit today and then to bed! Happy Easter all! Tom.

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Beautiful, Tom!  And Happy Easter to you, too. Jean – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello everyone! Well tonight one my friends is taking his latest fling to dinner. Another is out clubbing. Me? tonight I had a hot date with a bag of seedling bark and four severely overgrown compots. But it it has been fun. Tonight was the first night in years that I sat down and potted out community pots. When I was 14, my first paying job ever ($100 a week in plants) was with Orchids and Ferns in Houston doing mostly potting. So for some wierd reason it has become my favorite orchid related activity and very relaxing. It has been a rough 2 months, and I needed this. However- this post is about Paphs! So here we go! Remember the red bud I was so psyched about last week? Well, it came out great on color, but form is not so hot. Those petals are just too closed in. Maybe this will do better on second bloom, but I think this one is headed for the silent auction table at Thursday’s orchid meeting, http://members.aol.com/elpaninaro/red.jpg The real surprise is this next one though! Same cross, believe it or not. This one bloomed two weeks ago and I took it into work for the week. When I brought it back home and put it back under the lights, the flower flattened more and got quite a bit larger too! This one is a keeper I think. It is really something and just the sort of complex Paph I DREAM about LOL… http://members.aol.com/elpaninaro/cool.jpg Finally, good news on that kolopakingii x haynaldianum I showed last week. It took a few days, but the dorsals are rising on this and the flower has expanded to well over six inches across! still not sure if I am going to keep this one, but I am tempted. It has a new growth about 50% larger than this first bloom growth, so it could get a lot better. Also I found out the hybrid name here is Puppentanz- German for "Dancing Doll." A very appropriate choice!… http://members.aol.com/elpaninaro/puppentanz.jpg Well that is all for pics. One more post tonight on my orchid nursery visit today and then to bed! Happy Easter all! Tom.

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Hello everyone! Well tonight one my friends is taking his latest fling to dinner. Another is out clubbing. Me? tonight I had a hot date with a bag of seedling bark and four severely overgrown compots. But it it has been fun. Tonight was the first night in years that I sat down and potted out community pots. When I was 14, my first paying job ever ($100 a week in plants) was with Orchids and Ferns in Houston doing mostly potting. So for some wierd reason it has become my favorite orchid related activity and very relaxing. It has been a rough 2 months, and I needed this. However- this post is about Paphs! So here we go! Remember the red bud I was so psyched about last week? Well, it came out great on color, but form is not so hot. Those petals are just too closed in. Maybe this will do better on second bloom, but I think this one is headed for the silent auction table at Thursday’s orchid meeting, http://members.aol.com/elpaninaro/red.jpg The real surprise is this next one though! Same cross, believe it or not. This one bloomed two weeks ago and I took it into work for the week. When I brought it back home and put it back under the lights, the flower flattened more and got quite a bit larger too! This one is a keeper I think. It is really something and just the sort of complex Paph I DREAM about LOL… http://members.aol.com/elpaninaro/cool.jpg Finally, good news on that kolopakingii x haynaldianum I showed last week. It took a few days, but the dorsals are rising on this and the flower has expanded to well over six inches across! still not sure if I am going to keep this one, but I am tempted. It has a new growth about 50% larger than this first bloom growth, so it could get a lot better. Also I found out the hybrid name here is Puppentanz- German for "Dancing Doll." A very appropriate choice!… http://members.aol.com/elpaninaro/puppentanz.jpg Well that is all for pics. One more post tonight on my orchid nursery visit today and then to bed! Happy Easter all! Tom.

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