I think i may have put this out there before…maybe not.
Is anyone on the board an orchid grower? Growing mj is my hobby, but have a real interest in growing orchids.
I have only grown small orchids for vivariums i used to build, nothing to really note.
So im looking to get into the hobby and was wondering if there is any advice or tips out there or hobby growers who can offer advice etc.
Anyone got any pics to share?
Good Times
I think @dequilo mentioned that he grew them in a nursery that he worked at. I could be wrong. I guess he will let us know. lol
I cultivate here in Brazil, but as the climate is ideal, I just hang from trees and xaxins and periodically apply bat guano via liquid … They love it.
sure did I work for one of the premier orchid growers at the Jones & Scully
Thats cool. Did they do any breeding or crossing?
Sometimes my old brain remembers things. 
they did both and when they started they were collectors that went to the
jungles of central and south america looking for unknown plants
and worked them
Do you have many varieties?
As a side-topic, I’ve tried several times to use “orchid-mix” growing media for manual hydro with cannabis & it’s never worked. 
Seems like pH fluctuates like crazy & root-tips are prone to drying out in my arid climate(indoors).
It’s kind of funny, this comes up now.
I’m a cheap phuck, so I was looking for ideas to get one last item through my old tents before I retire them.
A few weeks ago, I went to help a friend with some dry wall he had to hang. As I walk by a small room, or large closet, they had orchids in there.
They had been growing them for a while, but not professional like or anything like that.
Well I got to looking at them, like we look at our buds, all up close and personal like, when I asked them about how difficult they are to grow.
They both said, it was way easier than they expected, that anyone with a bit of growing under their belt should have no issues, and told me the site they are using for information.
They also told me I could have some cuttings or spears or something like that to grow some out, from their collection.
They have no idea of my present hobby, at all.
But now, I think maybe I’ve find some work for my old tents to do, before I cut them up for trash disposal.
Fine thread OP!
Used to have a bunch. I always preferred semi-hydro as a growing method. I had real good luck with some varieties (dendrobium, cymbidium, phalanopsis, gongora) and really bad luck with others (cattleya, epidendrum, miltoniopsis, bulbophyllium, phragmidedium, vanda) and so so on a host of others (paphiopedilum comes to mind).
I grew them for a number of years under a 400 watt MH. I think the key is to get plants which are suited to your growing conditions, rather than trying to adopt your conditions to the plant.
Cym.sarah jean ice cascade was a real winner, a showy bloomer.
Some blossoms last a month and some last a day. Almost all of them will bloom once a year.
I really have no knowledge on growing them, but figured id use my green thumb and it’ll all be great.
Yeah man they are beautiful…so @urbs what you are saying is it doesn’t matter really how i grow them to start? Im thinking some hempy type setup might work?
You can google semi-hydro, I think Ray Barklow was the guy’s name,the website is firstrays.com basically it uses a quart deli container with a couple holes an inch from the bottom, filled with hydroton. Some orchids like it, some don’t. It doesn’t break down, and isn’t as easy to over water like bark.is. Need to remember that most orchids are saprophytic and the roots are aerial. Only a few orchids grow in the ground, most grow on trees. Roots will rot really easily.
Oops, sorry for the delay, we have a few, but I don’t understand anything, who takes care of these flowers is my wife … I’ll see her and I will review …
Hug
I am jealous of your climate. You can grow orchids hanging on trees. Amazing!!!
Everything is relative, but we adapt, RH is rarely below 80%, all types of mosses live on these trees …
I collected microorganisms in the forest and apply them everywhere … Edible mushrooms started to grow in wood scraps … But you can imagine to dry the herb that I work with …
Hug
Bumping this old thread to see if anyone is growing orchids. I’ve recently rebloomed one and I was flush with success and went and bought a couple more. Seems like orchids are a rabbit hole of info like weed, looking forward to learning. Any good orchid forums?
