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MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
I Google stuff like that.
vharrison
Island Girl
James, how cold does it get where you are? We put our orchids in our trees outside. Shake the dirt off the roots and attach them with a pantyhose leg, wrapping the pantyhose around the limb and plant. Eventually, the roots take hold of the tree and hold on all by themselves.
http://www.gypoclimber.com/showthread.php?t=12161
http://www.gypoclimber.com/showthread.php?t=12161
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Chisel Tooth
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MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Wow, they look like 'lil birds!
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Chisel Tooth
Guest
They are called the Parrot Flower, I edited my post, added the name
I've never seen anything like it. Mother nature is awesome!!!
I've never seen anything like it. Mother nature is awesome!!!
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JamesTX
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Do you have to water them?
lumberjack
Young man on the go
sotc
Dormant hero!!
We've killed several. I stopped buying them for my wife
vharrison
Island Girl
Yeah, at first, you might want to mist them with a mixture of 20-20-20 and water till the roots take hold. (plain water is fine as well) Oh, and you might wait till they stop blooming cause sometimes if you put them in the tree, they will loose that bloom.
vharrison
Island Girl
They really do, beautiful lil birds!
sotc
Dormant hero!!
Tell me about the cold please Gigi.
vharrison
Island Girl
Sotc, I really don't know much about orchids other than we have good luck with them down here. Ours stay in the trees all year, I am just thinking if we lived where it was cold, we would not be able to do that.
Bodean
Cali dreamer
I've seen friends hang a piece of burl in the shower, with planted orchids in the pockets.
warm and humid.
warm and humid.
sotc
Dormant hero!!
Cool idea!!
Che
Treehouser
Did they have extra lighting?
Bodean
Cali dreamer
no extra light, just a window with diffused lighting.
They are low light jungle plants, warm, wet and humid.
Seemed to work and cool looking showering with orchids.
They are low light jungle plants, warm, wet and humid.
Seemed to work and cool looking showering with orchids.
Of course I would want to show all of my friends....Er.... NO.
Granted it would beat showering with pansies.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Here is another example of mother natures awesomeness:
Oprys Insectifera, a vild orchid which is foud in a nearby forest. It is the only place in Denmark, it grows. really rare, this one.
It mimics a female wasp and even releases a copy of the wasp's pheromones.
When the male wasp tries to breed with it, the flower gets pollinated.
The male wasps hatch about a week before the females and that is right when the Ophrys flowers, so the wasps race around trying to mate with the flowers, until the female wasps show up.
Makes for a somewhat complicated sex-life.
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Che
Treehouser
Thanks, Stig.....I must not have had enough sleep last night, now I have a cartoon picture of a huge plant with human female shaped 'blow up dolls' hanging off it, in my head. I'm too sleepy to figure out a good caption though.
Maybe that's best.
Maybe that's best.
sotc
Dormant hero!!
Haha, I was thinking mother nature's blow up dolls
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Chisel Tooth
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There are so many things I've never seen, that's really something, thanks for sharing!
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