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keithgh      *Ultimate Fish Guru* Posts: 6371 Kudos: 6918 Votes: 1542 Registered: 26-Apr-2003    | This is an Odontoglossum "Purbecks Gold" I know of some one who actually uses that name for a security password on his work computer. Have a look in [link=My Profile] http://www.fishprofiles.com/forums/member.aspx?id=1935[/link] for my tank info Look here for my Betta 11Gal Desktop & Placidity 5ft Community Tank Photos Keith   Odontoglossum "Purbecks Gold" Near enough is not good enough, therefore good enough is not near enough, and only your best will do. I VOTE DO YOU if not WHY NOT?  VOTE NOW VOTE NOW |
 Posted 06-Nov-2007 07:45 |     |
| keithgh *Ultimate Fish Guru* Posts: 6371 Kudos: 6918 Votes: 1542 Registered: 26-Apr-2003 |  Edited by keithghThe spots are a fine water mist. Keith  Odontoglossum "Purbecks Gold" Near enough is not good enough, therefore good enough is not near enough, and only your best will do. I VOTE DO YOU if not WHY NOT? VOTE NOW VOTE NOW |
| Posted 06-Nov-2007 07:47 |  |
Brengun   Big Fish Posts: 355 Kudos: 187 Votes: 110 Registered: 22-Jun-2007   | A very interesting looking bloom, Keith, especially looking straight into the flower in close up.  |
| Posted 06-Nov-2007 10:50 | |
| wish-ga Mega Fish Dial 1800-Positive-Posts Posts: 1198 Kudos: 640 Registered: 07-Aug-2001 | You know his password? He better change it to cymbidium toot sweet! That is a beautiful orchid. I babysat a friends while she was overseas for the good part of a year. Nuttin'. No spikes. No flowers. Zip. She collected it and spied spikes within weeks. She was kind enough to say my lead up care contributed. But I think she had *the touch*. My mum bought me an orchid as a moving gift but I couldn't take it with me because my balcony gets full sun. On a balcony you can't move things for aspects like a proper garden. Congrats! ~~~ My fish blow kisses at me all day long ~~~ |
| Posted 07-Nov-2007 04:45 | |
Calilasseia  *Ultimate Fish Guru* Panda Funster Posts: 5496 Kudos: 2828 Votes: 731 Registered: 10-Feb-2003  | Quick question Keith - ever cultivated Angraecum sesquipedale from Madagascar? Otherwise known as the Comet Orchid. Flowers have a spur that is 30 cm long, and it was this flower that led Darwin to predict that there existed an insect with a proboscis long enough to reach the nectaries at the bottom of the spur. The insect in question was later found - Darwin's Hawkmoth, Xanthopan morganii praedicta. I gather it's not a difficult plant to obtain if you're a regular in the world of Orchids.  |
| Posted 09-Nov-2007 22:43 |  |
| keithgh *Ultimate Fish Guru* Posts: 6371 Kudos: 6918 Votes: 1542 Registered: 26-Apr-2003 | 99% of my orchids are cold that means grown out in the open without ant heat at all, though I do have a 18sqft hot box for small plants that require a bit of warmth during our cold winters. There are many orchids/flowers that have a story behing them. To be honest I could not afford to run a heated hot house. Have a look in [link=My Profile] http://www.fishprofiles.com/forums/member.aspx?id=1935[/link] for my tank info Look here for my Betta 11Gal Desktop & Placidity 5ft Community Tank Photos Keith Near enough is not good enough, therefore good enough is not near enough, and only your best will do. I VOTE DO YOU if not WHY NOT? VOTE NOW VOTE NOW |
| Posted 10-Nov-2007 05:03 | |
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