Originally posted by lja
I'll bet that now, since you've moved, Dendrobiums will do a lot better for you, given all the light you're getting. You should try some again! Are you still in NY state? Some early morning and late afternoon sun this time of year shouldn't hurt them a bit either. We quit selling them here because they grow so darned tall and take up so much room. Still have a few left that we're keeping just for ourselves, but might divide them here shortly and sell the divisions for cheap. They're awful pretty but, folks around here just don't get enough light to rebloom them again...

Yep, "Near blooming size" is one of those horrible terms that can mean absolutely anything: I hope it doesn't mean two years for Chachee either! No rush or anything on the pic; I was just curious...

So what kinds of orchids do you have now? Is your collection starting to get huge? (I'm meandering off topic... Brutal's going to demand the rest of this gets posted in his "Not Necessarily" section...

I'm sure den's would do wonderfully at my new home now, I'm just so scared of them now lol! I still live in New York State. The days lately have been so overcast that I had to go out a buy a grow lamp. I'm glad I did, I've seen so much improvment in my orchids in the past two weeks. Now I can give them light longer too. Seriously, if anyone told me what a huge difference having extra lighting, I would have been on it a long time ago. I guess that is the learning process of being a newer orchid grower. My orchid collection is still quite small. I lost a couple of my phal's during my move, it was so heartbreaking. My favorite phal was one of them. Right now I have one phal that had bloomed 2 times since I purchased it for a meager $5.00 6 months ago, Chachee, a miltoniopsis that I got last week, my Brassia , and 2 oncidiums that were one before I divided them. I'm actually surprised that the division has been doing to well. I know there are a couple I'm forgetting. My boyfriend bought me an orchid that looked like my favorite one that died, but when I went to repot it, there were no roots. And for what he paid for it, there should have been at least 2 roots lol! So I took that back. I'm now waiting patiently for the new shipment to come in on the 28th. The guy at Lowes was really nice in telling me I should really wait for the 'spectacular' orchids to come in. I guess he is getting in some lady slippers and other ones that are untypical from the old Lowes standbys. I'm going to have to build a small greenhouse soon though. My orchids are taking up my kitcen quickly.