Tag: orchids
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A Solar Radiation Study: Comparing Daily Light Integral Across Six Locations
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Growing orchids in Salem, OR, is not the same as growing in Pasadena, CA, where I started growing orchids in the 1960s. I had not given much thought about the difference in sunlight and now see that I should have. I specified my Salem greenhouse to have a 50% tinted polycarbonate roof thinking I…
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Blc. Honolulu Sunset ‘Wakida’ AM/AOS
Blc. Honolulu Sunset ‘Wakida’ AM/AOS My first “division” from the mother plant winning the American Orchid Society Award of Merit. This plant it is not a mericlone. A mericlone is a plant propagated from a tissue culture taken from a desirable plant. A single mericlone can produce limitless clones. Mericlones often are slightly different because…