MICHI-CAN
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Add a Tbsp of whole milk to your water one a month. Blooms will smell like spoiled milk. But it will explode. Full sun hanging was my best.
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Newb2indoor
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I’m trusting you. I’ll try it. I’ve done rice water and even banana water but not milk! I’m gonna be asking for your bloom picture by the end of summer. I visited an orchid garden in Hawaii over ten years ago. It was the craziest. place. They come in so many different varieties.
MICHI-CAN
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My senile mother in law killed mine after almost 18 years from a cutting.,by dumping her cold coffee in it. Thought she was watering it. I didn't catch it until it was too late.
Newb2indoor
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Oh nooooo. That’s sad. You get attached after you’ve had one so long. Feels so bad to lose one. I’ve got some 10 yo artichoke agaves and I’d be crushed if anything happened to them. I recently spent five months trying everything to save one of my Marantha’s and it just kept getting sicker and sicker and sicker made me feel like a failure still sad about it. I’m down to just the root cluster with one new growth bud sticking out of the soil. She ain’t dead yet there’s still hope. Do you think whole milk will do the trick? LOL
MICHI-CAN
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I only use the milk in my blooming stage other than the purple passion plants. Ca and P with natural enzymes. Crazy cat lady taught me as a child. Had to do her lawn care for an entire summer after myself and friends helped ourselves to her melons.
Newb2indoor
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Awesome. This Place is the one stop shop for anything plant advice.
MICHI-CAN
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I'll be right over to borrow one of those. Aren't they beautiful?!
getogrow
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Yea i love um... thats why i keep taking more. A picture cant even really show how pretty they are.
Im actually prepping for a yard sale to see how well it goes with a bunch of different varieties of plants.
MICHI-CAN
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"Spreading the sickness"! A welcomed affliction.
MICHI-CAN
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As I see your pursuit is deeper than mine. And less primitive. My days accomplishment was chopping oak bark down to 1" or so sheds.Then double boiling in distilled water. To sterilize for one. And to extract the tannin's and immediate nutrients. Bark will top dress my neighbor's lemon tree after I inspect and prepare it's medium for summer. The tannin's will soak my coco fiber and sphagnum I'm weaving through my vanda. I'll refridgerate and add a Tsp every few weeks to my mist routine. Over looked by most. They Are constantly being exposed to condensation on tree bark. Hence our bark mixes. But sadly not the same. Fresh chopped in bags. Seasoned here.
And a F.Y.I. thing. I boiled a coco planter liner last night. Some crazy wax holding it together. Smells and tastes of carnuba. But worrisome. Used to be coconut starch from the processing plant. Rhut Rho! 4 boil and refrigerate sessions seems to have removed it. I'll post further if issues' Natural waxes are safe. Anything else and I'm messing up. Still looking for current info.
getogrow
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coco planter ? and old pot ? Interested....
MICHI-CAN
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Actually new. $1 for 9" at Dollar tree. LOL. About 2 gallons after shredding. Just needed a little ATM thing. I'm poor. I look for practical options.
So far so good.
Cats destroyed the cat grass and cilantro. Started my last cat nip seeds. About 2 weeks till season is safe to try here. LOL.
getogrow
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nah , you read it wrong or most likely i wrote it wrong , like i always do HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Im all about making my own anything so im totally with you on that one! Im poor too , if i need some bark , ill make some!
I was talking about the waxy shit.... what did it come from ? You got it out of the coco itself ? or just the sides of and old pot ?
getogrow
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And how in the hell do they dye these orchids with wax?? I got blue wax all over the stem of my orchid at the nodes (and dripped onto the leaves)....i was going to try and make a new plant out of the stem but the wax scares me.....
And can you tell me what type of orchid i have ? (the dyed blue one from lowes....pics 20.2 pages ago) Thanks @MICHI-CAN
And can you tell me what type of orchid i have ? (the dyed blue one from lowes....pics 20.2 pages ago) Thanks @MICHI-CAN
MICHI-CAN
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Was in the coco new. First time I've seen it. Smell it before you buy it. You can smell the wax now. Been sniffing all I come across now. Just Dollar Tree with the wax so far.
Vanda is responding well. Damn slow moving things.
MICHI-CAN
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Looks like a common Phalenopsis of the moth type. Silver vase secret breed. A billion out there. LOL. The wax is no big deal if not everywhere. Really under handed means of preventing dehydration. Extending shelf life thing. "Who do you trust when everyone is a crook?"
getogrow
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How do they get the dye into the flowers ? Thanks sir
MICHI-CAN
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It is actually intravenously. Old cheat. And a few have "Top Secret" water additives. True blue orchids are very rare.
MICHI-CAN
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Please stop addressing me as sir. Not worthy and I'm just a beaten down laborer. LOL.