Category: Culture

POTTING MEDIA: Table for Beginners

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago Actually a sophisticated tabulation and arrangement of about 25 ingredients of mixes arranged in three categories and from the least-absorbent to the most so; and then keyed to recipes deemed suita... Read More

POTTING MEDIA: Water Retentiveness

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago To reverse the usual levels of wetness try large polystyrene chunks at the bottom of the pots, large cork bits or wine corks in the middle and top it off with an inch of peat and perlite; it is enh... Read More

POTTING MEDIA: What's Best for the Plant?

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago It is not the medium that grows the plant but the grower. A83-470 Read More

POTTING MEDIA: White Fungus Growth

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago When they appear in the mix they will not likely harm the plant but they can be controlled by means of a Physan drench at the rate of 1itpg.; do not repeat it for two or three weeks. A82-920 Read More

POTTING ON: Never Do it

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago Any plant more than five inches across will develop a ball of rotten roots (especially cymbidiums) in the centre; the practice frequently causes defoliation of the central pseudobulbs. NZ86-174 Read More

POTTING ON: Never Stop it

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago The potting mix is never removed from the roots by Bianchi a leading cymbidium grower, who starts with a single bulb in a five-inch pot in a bark and peat mixture and continues on up to a ten-inch ... Read More

POWER FAILURE: How to Cope in Summer

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago In Southern California, in case of an emergency, be prepared with heatless motor vent controls (non-electric), a thermal chimney eight ft. by 1 foot square, water-sprinklers on the greenhouse roof ... Read More

PROPORTIONERS, FERTILIZER: A Do-it-yourself Model

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago The assembly instructions, equipment needed, technical data required and a drawing, refer to OR77-6 Read More

PROPORTIONERS, FERTILIZER: Home Made

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago Deemed perfect for the maker's requirements, it cost only $10; it operates at a ratio of one to one hundred on a constant basis, has no moving parts, no gravity feed required; list of materials nee... Read More

PUMICE: As a Cymbidium Medium

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted almost 8 years ago It is not considered as good as bark; in an experimental growth trial lasting three years the plants in pumice became smaller, the root system poorer than those in bark, with the root system showin... Read More