[OGD] RE: Dr. Braem answering everything and anything
Dear Dr. Braem: I was out on vacation and realize this post might be old. Anyhow I do not want to star another flame. Why are you so sensitive to any comments that everybody writes? Why don't you grow up and stop bullying everybody? Although I had a good laugh every time you wrote an answer, it is getting annoying and totally meaningless. Don't you realize that if anybody attacks you professionally the only thing you have to do is answer back with a page of your resume? It appears that you do not know that once a war is started nobody knows how it will finish and who is going to win it! Actually on February 17th 2004 you asked Kenneth to withdraw you from this list. WHY DID YOU COME BACK? Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:43:53 +0100 From: Dr. Guido Braem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OGD] Get off my back! Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: list Reply-To: the OrchidGuide Digest \(OGD\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message: 3 What the hell is going on out there ... what is your problem ... are most of you to stupid to read postings as they are written??? I am fed up of getting insulted for every fricking posting on the list because a number of people does not seem to be capapble of doing plain reading. You want taxonomy by non taxonomists ... fine! Go to hell! Kenneth, please take me off this list ... that's it ... I have better things to do Cheers Guido All the best Michel Hidalgo ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
[OGD] woofs 'n' poofs
When I lived in Australia, it was poofter. I hope this contributes greatly to understanding the etymology of the word. But although this word has a particular meaning, I found it to be hurled at anyone- from the guy who cut you off in traffic to wayward politicians Hell, I even heard people's grandmothers saying it. The amount of times that I have heard John Howard called a 'poof' are too numerous to count. Now, can we lay the woofter/poofter debate to rest? Bob's your uncle, -T ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
[OGD] Saltpeter as a fertilizer component?
I'm guessing that USP grade saltpeter is OK to use as a fertilizer component for orchids. Does anyone know anything to the contrary? (I imagine it's much more expensive than buying technical grade potassium nitrate in bulk, but it's readily available here in that form and cheap enough for my experimental purposes.) Michael Gerzog ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
[OGD] Anguloa virginalis - thanks
Henry Oakeley Jean-Marie Vanderwinden Simon M. Wellinga Thanks for the help and interest in response to my query about the illustration published in the Botanical Magazine which, apparently, does depict the species Anguloa virginalis. I will be looking forward to the book about Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa which Henry Oakeley is to publish some time soon. Best regards, Viateur ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
[OGD] Re: Spiranthes sinensis
on 8/22/04 10:26 AM,Dennis wrote: On an Orchidaceous note, I recently was given Spiranthes sinensis, a plant I had long desired to have. Will this plant thrive in conditions suitable for Spiranthes odorata? Specifically, will it handle wet winters? Thanks, Dennis Westler Hello Dennis, From this gardening website http://davesgarden.com/pdb/go/55566/// it seems that it will handle conditions to zone 6b which seems about as far north as northern pennsylvania (max of -10F in winter) and that it requires very wet conditions as found in bogs or other wetlands, and they state that it could be used as a landscape pool type plant. I have never seen a 'colored' spiranthes here up in new york, just the lucida which has a bright yellow lip, or other forms of yellowish coloration or tint. Even though this gardening site lists range from asia to australia and the gardening site says it will handle zone 6, I think someone's suggestion that it rest winters in the refrigerator is probably a very good one. By the way, do you know if can be purchased here in the u.s.? A colored spiranthes would be very interesting indeed! regards, charles -- Charles Ufford Calen the Border Collie CGC - now in Heaven Oriskany, NY USA IPA, Central NY and Southern Tier Orchid Societies [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.paphiopedilum.net Http://www.geocities.com/charlesufford ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
[OGD] Re: use of woofter
Hello - I have never knowingly hurled epithets at anyone, or any group. I was under the impression that we had ascertained that a 'woofter' was the large sound-generating round thing in a lound speaker! My subscription to the Miriam-Webster 'word-of-the-day' just doesn't include such eclectic fare. A thousand apologies - especially to all those who have just found out the true definition of 'woofter' and now feel insulted. Perhaps I am myself a 'woofter.' Regards - Nancy Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
[OGD] Colour Printing/CDs
John Stanley wrote: I haven't followed the entire colour-printing thread and so my comments may be rather oblique but it does occur to me that many publications could be produced with an edition online or on CD-ROM. They could have more colour illustration at magnifiable resolution than is economic with traditional methods. Many (?-most) readers could print off appropriate sections to file far more compactly than metres of shelf-space taken up by conventional journals/magazines.Advertisers could have 'active' publicity that needn't involve more than mouse-clicks for enquiries! Some articles (keys and indices for example) could make use of digital technology and open up a whole new world of innovative publication. * While it is true that colour printing costs have come down to an extent and other factors have risen in price (wages, paper and inks) since I was editor of Orchids Australia not so long ago, the idea of electronic publishing has some flaws. People seem to think that because a blank disc costs very little that something published on CD should be cheap. All the work in preparing a magazine for example for whatever method of publication is not lessened. Then after the costs are added in for publishing (disc printing, duplication etc) it still mounts up. The one big drawback that I can see with publishing on a CD is that photographs will not be the same colour when viewed on different computer monitors, or printed out on paper - due to monitor and printer manufacturer differences, and personal settings. At least publishing on paper, everyone gets the same reproduction. With the help of our printers, Orchids Australia is now run on a full colour printing press which prints the CMYK runs on one pass of the paper through the press (that's cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks) which has helped reduce our costs. When I was editor, the layout had to be done in sets of 8 pages, and half these were printed two-colour because the four-colour process was just beyond our means. Now technology has advanced so much it is cheaper to run on one press. Colin Hamilton Webmaster Australian Orchid Council/OrchidsAustralia Rockhampton, Qld. Australia www.orchidsaustralia.com ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
[OGD] Re: Orchids Digest, Vol 6, Issue 346
. By the way, do you know if can be purchased here in the u.s.? A colored spiranthes would be very interesting indeed! This is the second request I have gotten about this! I got mine in a trade for some bulbs of a nice Pleione formosana clone I have. The man I traded with has just started selling a few locally at our shows (October- Orchidfest and February- Pacific Orchid Exposition). He is basically a hobbyist mostly growing Disas, Masdevallias, and terrestrials traditionally grown by the Japanese. He has no website or e-mail, and his English is pretty poor. I did a web search, but found no commercial sources in the first 6 pages of results (most results were Japanese or Chinese sites). I figure that there must be a commercial source here in the US, so you might try wading through the thousands of references that come up on Google. Thanks for the advise on culture! Check out the picture on Jay Pfal's site. The flowers though small, as expected are a really lovely pink with a white lip. Sincerely, Dennis ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
[OGD] Death of Sam Flagler
The orchid world has just lost one of the most avid lovers of orchids. Sam Flagler of Jonesville, TX passed away on August 22, 2004. Some on this list may have known him. He grew orchids for many years and was very active at that time in the Shreveport, LA Orchid Society. He then became the worlds foremost collector of orchid stamps and other orchid collectibles and traveled the world in search of these items. He will be missed by a large number of people throughout the world. Andy Lanier ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
[OGD] Re: sinensis culture adjustment
Hello, Just as an update to my post to culture for spiranthes sinensis, and the finding I posted that seemed that the species should like wet feet; I have been told that since there are several species in a very large area that are called sinensis, some of them, maybe more likely the very warm areas may end up being found in wet areas, and others in more northern areas will not like wet feet, but as one person who responded to my post pointed out that the plants they had of it in a rock garden in massachusetts very much did not grow in a wet area, but in something more like what spiranthes lacera would be in; more like standard damp woodland moisture, not wet at all but not really dry. I guess you just have to try one thing, keep an eye on it and if it looks unhappy then adjust it quickly! good luck on 8/22/04 10:05 PM, Cody Cruise wrote: Bill or Dorris, however you want to go by, maybe you're a woofster too? You sound a lot like Andy...maybe you share the same bed at times? We live in NORTH AMERICA! The US is part of the continent, not the entire continent! Get off your high horse, you americans think you're the only people on earth...give it a rest, hand it up, loose the ego!! Cody, you just posted that people in Canada are Americans, too, North Americans I agree. America as in the American Orchid Society is of people that live in America, 'The Americas' which consists of South, Central and North America. AOS members should not 'keep out of it' because they live in Canada. But Cody, you then state 'you americans think you're the only people on earth..' ; you make the same error. Since Canadians are also 'americans',just as you here pointed out, you are also chiding yourself and your countrymen for being egotistical!: ) Just making a point. Your statement is incorrect of course, as there are millions of United States Americans that really don't make any point of caring about placing themselves above or below anybody else in the rest of the world; most of them are too busy trying to make ends meet to even know there is a world out there, and are no different than you are. It is too easy to stereotype a very large amount of people because of the inevitability of finding someone that matches a stereotype; there are all kinds, everywhere. take care, charles my paph malipoense, after months and months of its flower stalk growing and growing and growing, the first bud fell off before it fully opened a few weeks back, and the second one fell off this morning after almost making it completely open. at least I was able to smell the chocolate/raspberry scent for a few days before the flower succumbed to it's fear of heights and commited suicide -- Charles Ufford Calen the Border Collie CGC - now in Heaven Oriskany, NY USA IPA, Central NY and Southern Tier Orchid Societies [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.paphiopedilum.net Http://www.geocities.com/charlesufford ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
