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Hi ZoeB here. This is me training my friend Heather to replate. As I said in the last post replating is spliting seadlings up and putting them in to smaller jars. This is Heathers first go and she is doing a great job. There is more information about replating and some videos on our website. www.wsbeorchids...
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We asked Simon Pugh-Jones our teacher what his favourite orchid is and he said he couldn't possibly pick one as there are so many amazing species with amazing stories. However one of his favourites is Sophronitis coccinea a miniature orchid from the cloud forests of Brazil with really large scarlet...
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In one of our earlier posts Zoe P was sowing orchid seed. There is a picture and it tells you about it, and now we have a video on it. you can find it on our website. www.wsbeorchids.org.uk/media/sowing-sinky-seed . There are more like this on there. Including replating and me at the chelsea show!
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Heres greenhouse club at work, this is the warm end of the greenhouses here we are checking all the plants making sure they are all ok and taking out any unwanted weeds. Its like this down at the greenhouses every lunch time. To find out more go to www.wsbeorchids.org.uk
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This one is one of Zoe B's favourites, Prosthechea cochleata.Zoe is in charge of all the Prosthecheas, wonderful orchids that come from Central and South America. Prosthechea cochleata is a plant from warm forests in Central America and school trips found the species flowering in Guatemala in 2005...
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This is one of our real favourites. Coelogyne cristata comes from the Himalayas and we grow this plant cool with a minimum of 10 degrees C. The recent trip to Sikkim found this species growing at about 1500m in monsoon forest. It flowers for us in March and April.
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Hi Zoe B here. This is me, Zoe P, Luke B and Luke S in the lab. As you can see there are thousands of orchids in jars all around.
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Here's a view of our daily routine. In our greenhouse we water the orchids and spray the floors and pipes to keep it humid. We get the whole greenhouse team to help and it doesn't take long. Also we weed the plants whenever it is needed, pollinate to get seed and get plants ready for shows. Most...
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This is a jar of school seedlings of the amazing Central American orchid, Brassavola nodosa. It is one of about a hundred jars of seedlings we will be taking with us the BCGI Congress in Durban www.bgci.org . In our workshop we will use these seedlings to train the delegates how to propagate orchids...
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