Changing Growing Environments

[raybark]

So I've been growing in a greenhouse for the last 35 years or so. Last summer I sold off almost all of the plants, and the greenhouse, too. My few remaining plants went into the basement under LED lamps, and they seemed to do OK. Then in early December they were placed in boxes and buried in styrofoam peanuts, where they stayed through a move from PA to NC, and were in the boxes for about a month. There is an east-facing "window greenhouse" in the kitchen, and all of the rest of the windows I can use for plants face north, so I'm having to learn to grow in windowsills again, although many of the plants will be summering outdoors.


Despite the torture they've been through, a couple of phals have decided to throw out spikes:


Phal Mituo Sun x LD's Bear King:





and the tiny (1.25") Phal Lobsis x KS Cumquat:

[wolf71758]

Both are gorgeous, seem to have adjusted well to the move.
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[JDT]

I don't think I could get use to growing indoors, you have done a good job on these two!

[Chris in Hamilton]

WOW! They are both amazing Ray! Will you be putting in lighting at your north windows?

[raybark]

WOW! They are both amazing Ray! Will you be putting in lighting at your north windows?

No...north faces the intracoastal waterway, and (heresy, I know) I prefer looking out onto the water, and I'm not obstructing that view!

I may reassemble my plant stand with lights, and stick that in a guest room or my office over the winter. Or, I might give up growing altogether....

[Chris in Hamilton]

Plant stand sounds good. Giving up growing would be a shame. By the way, I quite enjoyed your AOS webinar.

[Sheryl]

They've adjusted to the move well and are beautiful! And how are you adjusting Ray?

[zainal abidin]

Well both are very beautiful you are considered lucky to have those clone seldom seen in the market maybe you atmosphere is favorable for them to flowers.

[Chris in Hamilton]

Ray, are you growing these in semi-hydro?

[raybark]

Sheryl - We love it here. Haven't developed a southern drawl yet....

Chris - Phrags and clivias are in S/H, the phals are in sphagnum.