Deflasking Paphiopedilum rothschildianum

[Piper]

Cool journal, Tim! Good luck! Mack sure you post your first blooms for us in six years...

Julie

[bench72]

Hi Louis, Julie,


I've taken the plastic off this morning... I figure a week is long enuff... I'm not gonna molly cuddle these babies

A few of the bottom leaves are browning off, however, there seems to be new leaves forming so guess there's a trade off. Will post update on the website in a little while, ie after I get back from luncho... a boy has got to have a life... sorta...

cheers
tim
oh yeah, forgot... Julie, I hope it does take only six years... but everyday, I start to think that maybe it might take that eighteen years

[Piper]

Hey Tim,

With all that obsessive-compulsive love, how could they not want to grow for you in record-breaking time?

To quote some forgotten self-help book (I was more impressed with the quote than the book...a friend insisted I read it), "If at times we weren't challenged to believe in the extremely unlikely, then faith wouldn't be faith - would it?"

So bro, keep the faith! You'll have happy little roth brats beating around your windowsills/grow-lights/green house in no time!

Julie