Overview of Growing Orchids Indoors

For most gardening and flower enthusiasts, bloomed flowers are most fascinating to see, especially if they work hard and care for it, till it blossom. Among the most planted floras for gardens, orchids are one of the favorites.

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Orchid Lights – The Correct Spectrum

What's a home horticulturist to do? The window sills are full and a greenhouse out back is not in the budget for years to come. Orchid lights can be a great enhancement to your growing or lighting needs.

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Five tips for growing orchids

rchids are exotic plants that many gardeners insist are simple to grow.

Link:Five tips for growing orchids | Chattanooga Times Free Press

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Orchid tricks hoverflies: Eastern marsh helleborine mimics aphid alarm pheromones to attract pollinators

Eastern marsh helleborine (Epipactis veratrifolia), an orchid species, has successfully lured a hoverfly of the genus Ischiodon by mimicking alarm pheromones usually emitted by aphids. Credit: MPI Chemical Ecology, Johannes Stök

Orchid tricks hoverflies: Eastern marsh helleborine mimics aphid alarm pheromones to attract pollinators

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Orchid Problems and Pests : Mealybugs and Brown Soft Scales

Here is a great article about mealybugs published by The McAllen International Orchid Society Journal.

Orchid Problems and Pests : Mealybugs and Brown Soft Scales

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Orchids - going, going gone!

Orchids - going, going gone! » Naples Daily News (User story from kitmaran)

URL: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/oct/08/orchids---going-going-gone-1565/?partner=yahoo_feeds

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GARDENING: Orchids aren't as difficult to grow as one might think - ContraCostaTimes.com

"Orchids R Easy," asserted South Bay Orchid Society director Don Goss, in the title of his recent orchid workshop.
URL: http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_16290387?source=most_emailed

GARDENING: Orchids aren't as difficult to grow as one might think - ContraCostaTimes.com

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I support the American Orchid Society...

I am not a trustee of the American Orchid Society, heck I am not even a member (I have been thinking of becoming one and I encourage everyone else to do the same). But despite all the "troubles" over there, I think the American Orchid Society is great and if any issues come up with regard to data bases or donations, we as the orchid community should support the American Orchid Society, not condemn it or criticize it. I for one hope to become a member this year...


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Stark Museum presents Orchids in Print - TheRecordLive.Com

ORANGE, Texas, September 29, 2010 - The Stark Museum of Art will feature a gallery spotlight Orchids in Print on Saturday, October 9, at 1:30 p.m. and repeated at 2:15 p.m. Betty Hyatt, a Stark Museum docent, will give a presentation focusing on the life and work of artists who created illustrations for three rare botanical publications depicting exotic orchids from the museum collection. The books are showcased in a highlight exhibit of the same name which will be on view at the Stark Museum of Art from October 2 through October 16, 2010. The gallery spotlight is free to the public.

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Has a virus imperiled local varieties? - Kuensel Online

Cymbidium Mosaic 1 October, 2010 - More than 500 species of orchids that grow in the wild in Bhutan are at risk of being infected by a virus called Cymbidium mosaic virus, if what a self taught and trained orchid grower has to say is true.

For the past five months, Khashapa Dukpa has been saying that the hybrid blooming orchids that came into the country for the SAARC summit have brought along one of the most prevalent orchid viruses, which, if not destroyed, could wipe out the country’s entire wild orchid species.
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Has a virus imperiled local varieties? - Kuensel Online

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CEO Passions: Orchid Cultivation

Civil engineer Chris Rehmann tends to some 1,200 orchids in his backyard greenhouse.

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Biotechnology needed for orchid industry - SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - VietNamNet

VietNamNet Bridge - More investment in the development of orchid breeding and application of advanced biotechnology could make orchids key to HCM City’s farming growth, given the flower brings a profit 20 times higher than rice.

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Biotechnology needed for orchid industry - SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - VietNamNet

Orchids are Always in Bloom in Elma

What started out as a few orchid seedlings on an indoor windowsill a few decades ago has grown into a full-time hobby for Joe DiDomenico of Elma. He now has over a thousand orchids of all varieties from all over the world.

URL:http://www.eastaurorany.com/articles/2010/10/04/news/doc4ca408fea9ab0584441774.txt

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