plastic pot replaced with coconut husk
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I am from India and have been growing from the past 10 years
Have been active with our orchid society for the last 7 years
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Welcome Ramakumar! You can start your own introductory thread here http://www.rv-orchidworks.com/orchid...duce-yourself/ if you'd like. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramakumar
Hello and Welcome from fellow Indian. Where are you from?
[QUOTE=ksriramkumar;447758]Hello and Welcome from fellow Indian. Where are you from?
sir,
i am from kottayam kerala
i am working in agriculture department as tech officer
havinng a small orchid farm my 20 years orchid experience
Welcome from Florida! I have seen orchids in coconut shells but have never had one potted that way!
Welcome to the group!
If we want to be picky, we can safely say that using coconut products isn't truly a "natural" way of growing them, as the are no orchids that grow that way naturally. (When I routinely gave lectures on semi-hydroponics to orchid societies, I often heard "it's not natural", so I simply asked when was the last time that individual had seen an orchid growing in fir bark or coconut husk chips in nature?)
I saw Vanda teres ( now in a different genus) grown that way at Kandy Botanical Gardens, in Sri Lanka - so long ago that it was then called Ceylon ( about 1967 ) when I first visited .
More recently, maybe 2006 or 7 , I bought a lot of Dendrobium Hybrids from a nursery in Bangkok, and that eas an enormous place : they mostly sold cut flowers , and measured their sales in the number of tonnes sold each month- I recall that it was 3 tonnes the month I was there . They told me that I could select the plants I wanted and gave me a list of bench numbers to visit for my order . There were almost 2000 benches, each maybe 12 metres long , and - this is the point - their growing technique was to chop the top off a green coconut and drop a seedling inside..Coconut milk is a well known ingredient ro add to Agar in flasking - I gues it is full of nutrients.
So, nothing new under the sun, as they say .
I was also tempted to point that out, Ray, but I figured I'd just not fight that battle.
Naaah. No battle, just a humorous point of view.