Category: Culture

OSMOCOTE: 14-14-14 in Pots Outdoors

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago After use only beneficial effects have been observed in two years; during rain it dissolves. OIE85-8 Read More

OSMOCOTE: A Slow Release Fertilizer

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago Found satisfactory in commercial use only with such heavy-feeders as cymbidiums. A87-1285 Read More

OSMUNDA: The Ferns

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago Of the 13 native to North America, three grow in Canada; descriptions, growing areas,etc. refer to Ca-81(3)-30; digging up, preparation fcr potting material, and use as a potting medium. Ca8l(3)-35 Read More

OSMUNDA: Digging, Preparing and Using

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago Osmunda regalis, 0. Claytonia, and 0. cinnamomea are native to northern United States and Canada; dig large plants with 20 inch circumference of soil six inches deep; wash it thoroughly in a lake o... Read More

OSMUNDA: Importation Into Great Britain

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago This has been banned. OR87-237 Read More

OSMUNDA: As Potting Medium

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago It is derived from three ferns widely distributed in the U.S. and Canada, provides nutrients needed by the plants; lasts long, aereates well, is costly to buy, hard to work with, is scarce. A86-497 Read More

OSMUNDA: Treatment in the Pot

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago Drench with 4% formalin to kill Fusarium spores. A86-74 Read More

OUTDOORS GROWING: In Florida

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago 12 popular plants which survive year round in the open; Laelia rubescens, Cattleya skinneri, Dendrobium nobile, D. aggregatum, Encyclia radiata, E. cochleata, E. cordigera, E. alata, E. bractescens... Read More

OUTDOORS GROWING: In Miami Area

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago "grow or go" applies to orchids of minor importance in a large garden; plants are attached especially to oak trees on the east side at a point where water sprinklers hit a window-screener pouch wit... Read More

OUTDOORS GROWING: In Minnesota

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago Plants grown in full sun eight hours a day all summer until frost, flowered much better than those grown outside in shade; especially vandas and cattleyas. OIE85-19 Read More