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Oncidium Makali 'Gotom' X Brs. Rex 'Sakata' 2008-03-11 00:54:00 This is one of my new adopted chids from the Farmers Market it was $25. It is an Oncidium Makali 'Gotom' X Brs. Rex 'Sakata'. The spike is over 30" tall.Come Watch my Plants Grow
The Vanda Orchids 2008-03-11 00:34:00 Here are a few shots of the new Vanda orchids from this weekend. My favorite 1 is the little purple 1 it is so fragrant. It smells like a very strong grape koolaid. During the heat of the day it smells twice as strong. And the last picture are the new baby Vanda orchidsCome Watch my Plants Grow
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New Orchids 2008-03-10 23:55:00 Well I spent a couple months of orchid allowance this past weekend at the Port St Lucie Orchid Society Show and Sale, and The Downtown Farmers Market. Besides the show every Sat. we have a farmers market sale down on the river. This week there were a couple plant vendors and I adopted a couple new ground orchids for $5 each , a new Oncidium for $25, and 2 yellow Cattleyas 1 is more gold than yellow but are both Blc. Husky Boy 'Romeo' for $7.50 each. Then from the Orchid show I got 3 Vanda babies, 8 other babies var. , 4 Vandas, Coconut orchid, Phal., and a Den. I am going to post close up shots through the week so check back. So between both stops I doubled my orchid collection the new count is 35.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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PSLOS Orchid Show pictures 2008-03-09 22:54:00 This past weekend The Port St Lucie Orchid Society had its 15th annual Orchid Show and Sale. Being new to this plant and flower thing this is my first orchid show and all I can say is WOW! They had some outstanding floor displays, and the vendors designed tabletop displays set up all through out the room. I have a few pictures of the displays. I can not believe how extraordinary orchids are. The many varieties and each one has its own characteristics from the different fragrances, sizes, colors, and pedals. I made some adoptions expanded the collection but those will come later. So for now here are those shots of the show. Click on the picture for a large shot so you can see some of the many different varieties.Come Watch my Plants Grow
$5.00 Palm Trees 2008-03-17 09:14:00 On Sunday I was driving down US1 and a guy with a couple trailers of palm trees was on the side of the road. I pulled in and he had an entire trailer full of roebelenii palms or Pygmy Date Palms, a trailer full of majestic palms, and the last trailer was split with coconuts and chinese fans. The man said $6.00 each or 2 for $10 but cash only. So with $30 in my pocket I came home with 4 coconuts palms and 2 of the roebelenii's. The guys on the side of the road are always so cheap. You just have to keep your eyes peeled for them.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Seed Room 2008-03-17 00:34:00 Well my seed starting has reach a new plateau. My first seed box turned into seed box 2.0, and now seed box 2.0 is being replaced with seed room 3.1. I have taken over the little bathroom that is in the efficiency attached to my house. It has a little shower stall in that I am using for the snap tite containers and ziplock baggies, and some shelves that fit perfect in between the wall and toilet for all the humidity dome trays and take out containers. I have a little heater fan and a thermometer in the room so I can maintain the temperature.Come Watch my Plants Grow
Licuala Ramsayi Sprouts 2008-03-16 11:02:00 Last night when I was putting the bamboo palm seeds in the seed room. I started to check some of the other container to see if anything has happened yet. In the Licuala ramsayi I found 7 sprouts. Today I took them out and added them to the seedling rack. Here is a picture of the sprouts in the room.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Bamboo Palm 2008-03-15 22:15:00 I was at a friends house Friday night having dinner and a few drinks. Checking out his yard I came across a section of very nice bamboo palms. I ask for a few seeds and they gave me a bag and said take as many as you want. I collected a couple stalks of seeds. Tonight I am starting 2 snap tite containers 1 with the little green not quite ripened seeds and another with the large black color seeds just like they are off the tree. I also have about 40 of the in a hot soak right now and plan on starting those tomorrow. I have pictures of the palm tree and the stalks with seeds. Then a shot of the seeds in a tin, and finally a shot of the containers in the seed room. These are the 2 containers on the bottom shelf.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Zygo Everspring 'Noland Van Dallen' AM/AOS 2008-03-18 22:26:00 Yesterday I came home to find the Zygo Everspring 'Noland Van Dallen' AM/AOS orchid had blown over in the crazy wind we have had for a few days. This normally would not be that big of a disaster but this plant has 2 spike just about to bloom. One of the spikes broke. Not off completely it is still attached just limp. So my friends on OrchidGeeks gave me advice on trying to save it. So I took some florist tape and a little splint and wrapped the spike. Then I put a little stake in the pot to help support it. The stake is very disappointing because the spikes were holding themselves up very nicely. Oh Well. So as of tonight the 1st bloom has opened on the spike that is not broken.Come Watch my Plants Grow
3 Orchid for $20 2008-03-20 22:42:00 I just can not pass the people on the side of the road without stopping anymore. Today down in Jensen Beach on US1 a lady in a ryder truck was on the side of the road selling orchids 3 for $20.00. I try not to buy orchids in bloom but these were a great deal. She had Phalaenopsis and Dendrobium orchids none of them had id tags though. So if anyone can id these please let me know. The ones I bought have a lot of blooms still to open. I bought 2 Phalaenopsis they are the 1's closest to you in the photo one has a smaller flower and kinda of flops right at you. The other phal is the red flower with2 blooms open. The the last is the Dendrobium to the left of the phals. It has the large pink and white flowers. This plant collecting has become an addition.Come Watch my Plants Grow
Paph Raisen Pie 'Hsinying' X SIB Paph. Supersuk 'Eureka' 2008-03-23 20:39:00 Over the weekend we have added our first Paphiopedilum orchid. I have been a little indimdated by these orchids. But Sat. at the Formers Market one of the orchid vendors had this guy for $15. So I decided it was time to give it a shot. The bloom has not opened yet so I do not know what it looks like. But we are only days away. Right now to me it looks like a little head with a helmet on. This Paphiopedilum orchid is a Paph Raisen Pie 'Hsinying' X SIB Paph. Supersuk 'Eureka
'. The leaves are different colorsthey are very interesting. I have included a shot of them. So here it is and as soon as that bloom opens I will post an update.Come Watch my Plants Grow
OMG Can you say Addicted 2008-03-21 23:32:00 OK. This is getting out of control. Tonight my fiancee and I were going to have dinner at her bosses house. Which of course is in Jensen Beach. Well the lady was still set up with her 3 for $20 orchids but now she had new 1's. So my girl had to buy some. Some = 6 new Phals. With 1 going as a gift it seems that we have added 5 more to the collection. I am going to have to take a count tomorrow to see if we have broken 40. 40 OMG that is crazy. But the plus side is my palm addiction seems to be contagious. My girl loves taking care of the orchids. Here are a few shots of the 6 orchids for $40. And the last is some of the orchids that are in bloom. Unbelievable!Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Starting a Batch of Dypis Seeds 2008-03-25 20:57:00 A few days ago I received some new seeds in the mail. They have been soaking in warm water for 3 days. I have 20 Dypis lastelliana seeds or Redneck Palm and 30 Dypis hovomanstina seeds. I started the 20 redneck palm seeds in a snap-tite container along with 20 of the Dypis hovomanstina seeds in another snap-tite container. These were placed in a 50%perlite and 50% peat moss mix. Then I placed 10 of the Dypis hovomanstina seeds in a ziplock bag with a seed starting mix. They have been placed in the seed room and as soon as a sprout pops I will update.Come Watch my Plants Grow
Tonights Paph Pictures 2008-03-24 22:57:00 Tonight there is a little more progress on the Paphiopedilum orchid. These pictures came out better than last nights. It is almost completely open. The second picture is looking up from underneath the flower.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Orchid Flower Close Ups 2008-03-24 20:34:00 Tonight I finally set up a black background and took some close up pictures of a few of the blooming Phalaenopsis orchids. The first 2 pictures are the Gold Coin from an earlier post, but the rest of these are NOID yet orchids so if you can name any of these please let me know. So I must say these are some of my best pictures yet. The black background makes all the difference. If you click on the picture they have some incredible detail. It is so amazing how each orchid has its own unique features.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Mounting an Orchid to a Palm Tree Slab 2008-03-27 22:09:00 My 2 favorite things coming together palm trees and orchids. At the beach a few weeks ago I found a palm tree decaying away. I seemed to be decaying from the inside out. I thought this might be a pretty sweet mount for an orchid. So I grabbed a few pieces and brought them home. The first thing I did was soak them in clean water for 2 days trying to remove any bugs and help remove any salt left from the ocean. I allowed them to dry in the sun for almost a week before I tried to mount any orchids to it So they seem to be very fiberous and have a very nice curve to them so the orchid should be happy. I mounted 2 small Dendobiums to 2 pieces and the other receive a large Cattleyas Haleahi Serenity. I added a little spaghnum moss in between the roots and slab to help hold some moisture in for Read more:Mounting
Banana Tree Updates 2008-03-26 21:30:00 Well these trees are getting big. The Misi Luki pup is starting its 2nd leaf. The ice cream banana pup that the lawnman weedwacked has its 4th new leaf coming out. The apple and williams hybrid still have no pups but the are spitting out new leaves about every 4 or 5 days. Pictures 1 &2 are the Misi Luki bananas, 3& 4 are the ice cream bananas, 5 is the apple banana, and the 6th is the williams hybrid.Come Watch my Plants Grow
Almost There 2008-03-26 18:45:00 The Paphiopedilum orchid is almost open. These are from this afternoon.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Paph Raisen Pie 'Hsinying' X SIB Paph. Supersuk 'Eureka' in Bloom 2008-03-28 23:35:00 This Paphiopedilum orchid is a Paph Raisen Pie 'Hsinying' X SIB Paph. Supersuk 'Eureka
'. This is my first paph and it has finally opened its bloom. Paphs are so unusual with their lower cup lip. It looks hairy and the bright colors are so vivid. I am very excited about my first paph. I just hope to keep it alive till the next bloom.Here are some pictures from this evening.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Exciting Stuff Happening this Week 2008-04-01 21:58:00 Over the past weekend many exciting things happened and with my Everglades fishing trip coming up this weekend I plan to have even more exciting stuff to talk about when I get back. So on Sat. I went to a garage sale and met a very nice lady named Marge. She and her husband had a spectacular yard. They have some pretty nice stuff. Rare Palms a few different Pandanus's, cypress trees, bamboo, orchids, the list just goes on and on. We talked and she has invited me back to take pictures. So next week I am going over there and should get some interesting pictures. While I was there I bought some variegated Pandanus veitchii clippings and some unknown green pandanus with huge leafs. The mother plant had 3 ft of trunk and 20 ft leafs. They had huge patches of these Pandanus's. Then she had baske Read more:Happening
Resident Alligator 2008-04-01 00:34:00 Today, I was at my property and the resident alligator made an appearance. I have a few pictures some good some not so good. When I first saw him his body was out of the water. But when I got close enough for some good close ups he submerged down so only the snout was out of the water. The entire time I was snapping shots he never took his eyes off of me. I would change spots and he would turn just enough so he could see what I was doing.On Thursday I leave for a 4 day fishing trip down in the Everglades. I am bringing my camera and camcorder. Hopefully when I get back on Sunday I will have lots of new footage and pictures of the Everglades National Park and the wildlife inside. Oh and also come home with a lot of fish!Come Watch my Plants Grow
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$32 of Disappointment 2008-03-31 22:19:00 I have been anticipating an ebay purchase in the mail. I bought 50 plumeria seeds, 40 Rhapis subtilis seeds, and 5 Eulophia graminea orchid bulbs from a seller in Thailand, Well the package was in the mail box today. And this what was inside. Growing instructions for plumeria seeds and a US Dept. of Ag. Mail Interception Notice. No seeds...no bulbs...just $32 growing instructions on some seeds I don't have. I guess the seller did not send a pyto-sanitary certificate with the seeds and customs intercepted and then mailed my empty box to me. Man I wanted that stuff.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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My 1st Rescue has Paid Off! 2008-03-30 19:56:00 On Feb. 9, I posted the first picture of this NOID Phalaenopsis orchid. This is the orchid that I saved from the trash on a moving job. Well this morning the last bloom finally opened. Full bloom! Here is a series of pictures that I have taken over this blooming period. The 1st picture was taken on 2/9/08, 2nd 2/27, 3rd 2/29, 4th 3/2, 5th 3/4, 6th 3/12, 7th 3/18, 8th 3/22, 9th 3/24, and the last 2 are from 3/30. Not bad for and orchid that was just being tossed in the trash almost dead.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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The Gardening Hot Spot! 2008-04-08 00:09:00 About a month or so ago I "stumbled upon" 1 of my new favorite websites. This gardening blog directory/tool has hundreds of gardening blogs to search through. This networking site allows you to set up a plot, add friends, add favorite blogs to your plot, and message each other. Not to mention the countless other ways to search from different regions all across the world to the actual content of the blogs. It becomes very addicting to find out how other people across the planet garden and the kind of plants they grow. I highly recommend this place if you have any interest in gardening. But take caution you can lose track of time very easily. If you do sign up make sure you stop by my plot and say hi. Here is a Link to my plot for anyone who would like to preview what it looks like. M
Everglades National Park 2008-04-07 22:03:00 After 4 days of fishing in Everglades National
Park I am back. Cooler full of fish and lots and lots of pictures. This was an annual fishing trip that my older brother, a friend of his, and myself take. We stay in Everglades City and fish a place called Chokoloskee which is basically the start of the 10,000 islands. It is miles and miles of mangrove islands, oyster bars, grass flats, bays, rivers, and of course the Gulf of Mexico. So there is no shortage of choices to fish. We had a great trip catching lots of snook, red fish, snapper, grouper, and trout. I have a few shots of some of the fish and wild life that I came across along with some scenery pictures.Come Watch my Plants Grow
Bubba's Grandpa's House 2008-04-09 19:19:00 Let me start with how my fried Bubba
has been talking about his Grandpa
's house for weeks now. Telling me how he has a green house full of orchids. Well I have been telling him for weeks now LETS GO! Yesterday it happened. We pulled up around 5:30 and I began looking at everything. It starts with a nice croton collection across the front of the house like a hedge, but no 2 are alike. Then there is island after island of different bromeliads. I have no idea what the names of each one is but I have lots of different pictures of these. I do know that in 1 shot it has a variegated pineapple and a clump of pandanus's. Ground orchids growing out of control. Palm trees galore a 3 year old Bismarck in the corner, a nice size trimmed phoniex relinada, a huge cluster of lady palms, 10 chinese fan pa Read more:House
More Banana Tree Updates 2008-04-10 21:35:00 It is amazing when you look at your plants growing everyday not much seems to happen.But you leave for a few days and it seems like they explode in new growth. When I got back from my trip there was new growth on all of the banana trees. Then the banana trees put out 2 new leaves each in just 4 days Just before I left on my trip I had 2 new pups on the Misi Luki, and 1 new pup on the Ice Cream. Now I have 2 pups coming up on the apple banana. The new pups are growing faster than any of the pups that have been there since I started on the ice cream banana. The new Ice cream pup has only been exsposed for 2 weeks and is taller and fatter than the 3 others that have been there for 5 months. Here are some different pictures of all the bananas. The first 3 are the Ice Cream banana tree, the fi
New NOID Phalaenopsis and Dendrobium Orchids 2008-04-11 23:21:00 While I was out of town my girl came home with 6 new chids'. These came from our 3 for $20 lady. Apparently my girl has a new friend because the lady threw in an extra orchid and a full spray can of leaf shine. The first white phal has 12 blooms on 1 spike 7 blooms on the other and has another spike growing with 2 blooms to open and still growing. Then the light yellow phal still has blooms to open. A pink phalaenopsis that blew over this week and broke a few flowers off. So this scared up flower is all that is left of the open flowers, but still has 4 blooms to go. Then a very light lavender /white Dendrobium. These little flower phals I am really digging. The are so petite . This is my 3rd small flower phal. And finally a green with purple lip dendrobium. The free 1 my girl gave to her m Read more:Orchids
This Weeks Orchid Blooms 2008-04-14 00:35:00 Blooms, Blooms, Blooms, the porch as blooms everywhere. That is what tonights post is about. Along with the blooms there are 4 spikes coming in, so more on the way! I have 2 pictures of the plant stands on the porch and a slide show of some of the better pictures of the blooms. There are some nice detailed close ups if you would like to click the picture for a closer look. You must allow pop ups from this site for it to take you to the big picture.Come Watch my Plants Grow
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Bubba's Grandpa's House Round 2 2008-04-12 23:40:00 I made it back to my friends Bubba
's grandpa's house to get more pictures. This trip scored me a new Cym. orchid, 6 different bromeliads, clippings of a vanilla plant, garlic vine, hoya, and a chinese hat vine. I will post pictures of these new clippings in a future post. Tonight I am trying a few slide shows. If you click on the picture it will give you the big picture, but you have to allow pop-ups from this site. These are more pictures of his yard. Many different bromeliads in bloom, the floss silk tree and the encyclia hamburyii that is growing on it. And many others.This one is a slide show of the Green House
. So many different plants and orchids. Everywhere you look there is something else. Orchids mounted on shells, coconuts, slabs, and anything else he could get an orchid to attac Read more:Grandpa
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