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| Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:14 | |
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Hello All,
Looking for any tips that you may have when maintaining orchids on a two week maintenance cycle. We rotate our orchids every six weeks although we are having trouble with roughly 25% of them lasting the entire 6 weeks. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! |
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| Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:25 | |
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What kind of medium are they in? Long-fibered sphagnum moss or bark mix?
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| Posted: 08 Feb 2012 12:31 | |
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My first reaction is that (you are) getting a 75% success rate on a 6-week rotation is good.
I'd look for symptoms of incipient failure; discoloration in the area of unopened buds, crisping of the petals of the 'youngest' petals, color and texture of leaves. I'd look for differences between the 75% and 25%. Different supplier? Different growing medium? Different 'Technician Type' - usually dependent upon watering tendency; Over- or Under-. Let me hasten to say that there are excellent Technicians under either type. It is just that some plants are exacting in their moisture requirements - humidity in the case of orchids. I take it that you have considered limitations of location eg. drafts, lighting and the like. There has to be an explanation. Very often it seems like a hide and seek game with Mother Nature. |
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| Posted: 08 Feb 2012 13:42 | |
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| @ronalawn82 great reply...can you pm me? | |
| Posted: 09 Feb 2012 07:04 | |
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Unfortunately, "75% success" rate will not fly with clients. They feel they are paying for 100% success rate, not 75%. So let's get some more data that we can use to come up with a strategy. In his posting, Bradson 7 asked for tips on how to correct the issue. To do that, we need more details.
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| Posted: 19 Nov 2013 01:56 | |
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| Ive had success using a simple wic and stand sub system… two weeks no problem sometimes more | |
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