Orchids

[JamesTX]

Anyone know how to take care of something like this?

[MasterBlaster]

I Google stuff like that.

[vharrison]

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

[Chisel Tooth]

The Parrot Flower
Anyone ever seen these, WOW!!!
I didn't know were else to put them.

[MasterBlaster]

Wow, they look like 'lil birds!

[Chisel Tooth]

They are called the Parrot Flower, I edited my post, added the name
I've never seen anything like it. Mother nature is awesome!!!

[JamesTX]

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

Do you have to water them?

[lumberjack]

No, once they have wrapped their roots around the tree, they are on their own.
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[sotc]

We've killed several. I stopped buying them for my wife

[vharrison]

Do you have to water them?

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]

Wow, they look like 'lil birds!

They really do, beautiful lil birds!

[sotc]

Tell me about the cold please Gigi.

[vharrison]

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]

I've seen friends hang a piece of burl in the shower, with planted orchids in the pockets.

warm and humid.

[sotc]

Cool idea!!

[Che]

I've seen friends hang a piece of burl in the shower, with planted orchids in the pockets.

warm and humid.

Did they have extra lighting?

[Bodean]

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.

[Stumper]

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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. :O

[CurSedVoyce]

:lol::lol::lol:

[stig]

They are called the Parrot Flower, I edited my post, added the name
I've never seen anything like it. Mother nature is awesome!!!

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.

[Che]

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.

[sotc]

Haha, I was thinking mother nature's blow up dolls:lol:

[Chisel Tooth]

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.

There are so many things I've never seen, that's really something, thanks for sharing!