orchids.bsky.social
I grow orchids, but I kill them
(I murder other plants too)
📍Southern California 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦
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Beautiful 🌱📷
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You’d think you might be able to ID that with its unusual pattern 🌱📷
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I like it too. Mine is getting bigger too 🌱📷
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Wow spectacular 🌱📷
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That’s a great tip 🌱
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That looks so cool 🌱📷
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😑 spelling correction: Ever Amethyst 🌱📷
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🤣
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Beautiful 🌱📷
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Gorgeous 🌱📷
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Thank you, that’s a huge compliment. No, I just pull out my iPhone when I see something interesting and snap. I take multiple images if I can to get the right shot. There are some not so good shots 🤣🌱
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Here’s what the American Orchid Society suggests: 🌱
www.aos.org/orchid-care/...
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Thank goodness they are thornless. I am pulling them up from 10 feet away
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We have just one-ish plant (how do you know how many?🤔), which gave us many pints of berries since March. 🌱
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Unpruned canes will grow very long (10’ ?). I prune at about 4’ to encourage lateral growths. If mature, these fruit the first year off the new growths. Then they fruit in the spring from the old canes before sending up new canes. 🌱
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You can grow in a container, but it will try to escape through the drainage holes. It’s best to put the pot on concrete or lifted over the ground. Even then they are smart. 😆🌱
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The fruit when ripe are large, sweet, not acidic, and delicate. But as blaberries go, it’s an aggressive grower (good and bad 😆) 🌱📷
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Oh it’s thornless too 👍🌱📷
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That’s one of the reasons why I like this hybrid so much. Other reasons are: repeat blooms, long lasting, cool growing, & tidy compact habit 🌱
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They are cheerful to have 👍
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TJ’s orchids grow fine for me. The flowers will last for several weeks before they drop, but the plant will live on, at least for me with my growing conditions
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The blue ones are artificially colored with a dye. When they flower again, they produce white flowers🌱
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👍🌱📷
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I didn’t know there were so many cultivars. I am looking to acquire Aimee, Mystery, and Veitchii. That should be plenty 😁🌱
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It belongs to a neighbor so I don’t know its name. I’ve been enjoymany of their roses in my daily walks. 🌱
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It belongs to a neighbor who has a lovely garden. It’s a gorgeous color 🧡
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The petals are a light yellow
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See the post in this link 🌱
bsky.app/profile/orch...
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I got the former down pat! 🤣
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Pretty 👍🌱📷
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I use various hashtags and emojis to get my posts picked up on flower and gardening feeds. Then you get more exposures 👍🌱
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Adorable 🌱📷