New Here

Hi! Everyone!
I'm new here, I just happened on this site browsing the web. I like to garden inside and out. :)
I currently grow orchids and av's which I'm just getting into. I had grown them on and off over the years. My sister in law just gave me 4 plants. No blooms yet, so that will be fun to see what they turn out to be. They are just noids though. And I just received an order from ebay for leaves. 25 of them. And so they are all potted up and I can't wait to have babies.
So I hope to meet alot of you on here and hope to be able to join in on the fun.

Thanks so much!
Leslie

Welcome Leslie. I love to garden in and out too. My hubby and I have orchids. I think a lot of us here do!

African Violets are fun and the "cousin's" like Chirita's etc are great also.

So happy you are here! This is a BUSY forum! You will like it here. Show us your plants and tell us where they are growing. We love pictures!

Hi Leslie,

Welcome aboard! I was new here just two short weeks ago. But these folks have made me feel totally welcome. They will do the same for you. It's a great group. If you have a question just ask. Someone here will have the answer or know where to find it.

Have a great day!

Pat

Hey Leslie,

Welcome! Looks like we are neighbors!

Connie

Welcome Leslie, 25 leaves is alot! It's very rewarding when you start to see the little baby plants come up, hope you have room for them all!

Hello and welcome aboard the fun train!!! Check out some of the threads and join us in growing african violet trailers the Japanese way...........look at your stuck leaves and see if you have a trailer (any size) miniature, semi mini or standard among them.

If you don't, holler and we will find you one.
gail

I think many of us garden both inside and outside, but in the summer heat we have had it has mostly been indoors........

My orchids outside look horrible but those inside and under gro lights (the catts) are doing great.

Welcome Leslie;
Looks like we are neighbors also. I also grow inside & outl this is the first year for outside for me thou as i live in an apt. bld.but got some outside anyway, way cool. i also have a few orchids. mine are mini' s also violets & so many of there cousins.You will love it here. everyone is so helpful.so glad you came.
mrsbonnie

Welcome Leslie ^_^!! I have not been around much for a few weeks,but I'll be Baaack!!

Lynn

We have missed you, Lynn!!

Welcome and good luck with your babies! It is so much fun when they start popping up:)

Pat

Welcome Leslie!

Leslie you have just found one of the best forums at Daves!! The people here are wonderful. You will really enjoy it!!
I'm a newbie too.

I am new, too.........just put leaves....9 of them under grown lite........hope I get 'babies'....I am so new at this. Just following directions, I hope. I have about 6 AV's that I bought.

Welcome bbon!

Hello, Leslie and Bbon!

Quite new on this forum as well, but the people are very nice, and I think we'll have lots of fun! I'm Alexandra, I kill a lot of plants here in desert El Paso. Usually serial killings...

Alexandra

LOL......Alexandra.....another new plant term.!!

Welcome Bbon ^_^.

Lynn

Hello and welcome aboard Bbon!

Growing in El Paso would be a challenge without good air conditioning or the coolers which pull air over water. I can't think of what they are called. We had them in Las Cruces when I went to school there one time.

Thanks so much for the great welcome!

think they are called swamp coolers

How did you know that living in the north? I couldn't remember.

i know many things gail,and who said ive lived here my whole life,i havent ,lived all over,lol, parents moved a bunch,

No one but someone from the dry arid part of the country would remember that bit of trivia. You must have moved around the world a lot!! I can remember going with my grandparents in the summer to Pecos, Texas where they had a farm. In this little bunk house where we stayed, they had this kind of cooling. I was fascinated as I had never seen it.

My husband built me a little greenhouse years ago with the drip pads (that's what I call them, but I think there is another name). It really keep the greenhouse pretty cool and I used it so I could grow the cooler growing orchids in Florida. I forget what material he used for the pads but it was not very expensive and fastened across the back of the greenhouse and then he rigged up a drip system at the top of the pads and used an old sump pump and a garbage can for the water to recycle out of. I don't have that system anymore but it was very nice.

Pat
Orlando

Yep, swamp cooler, or, if fancier words to be used, evaporation AC. Great for providing some degree of humidity during the hot months. Unfortunately, with limits in cooling... I don't know too much about this, as I've been in El Paso for just one year now, but it depends on the temperature and humidity outside. As luck would have it, in the summer we have the monsoon season, with some humidity and (if lucky) some rain. So we feel quite well the limits of this AC. For example, if outside it's over 100F, inside I cannot lower the temp more than 85F. That's how I've been living for the last couple of months.

Winter is not bad, but the air is so much dryer then. The heating unit dries the air additionally. So I have a humidifier for the plant room, that runs from fall to late spring.

(sorry for my delayed answer, had been gone running errands for a few days)
Alexandra

How far from potted leaves do position the grown light? do you keep them watered..I have a dome top. I have two florescent lights ...above them..but how far?
Thanks for answering...

Also, is the reason my other AV's are pointing up lack of enough light? It is the same window that the original three AV's I received did so well last year. Nothing changed.
so I am baffled.

Thanks for any help...

bbon