I think it's about time for us to post NEW photos of our slipper collections. I know mine are pretty outdated! I put the date on this thread so that in the future we can update our photos for different seasons because many people move their collections and change set up when the temps change.

Please post your updated collection photos here. It's always interesting to see different growing areas.

I'll have my photos up later this week...after I have finished moving some of my more delicate plants to their cool weather places! :D

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http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/paphstanhopeaandphrags/MVC-101S.jpg

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/paphstanhopeaandphrags/MVC-100S.jpg

phrags

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A few multi paphs

what beautiful plants, george!!

Hi George,

You have great looking plants! :nicepaphs: :nicephrags:
:slippers:

What an awesome grow area! And all those plants look so wondefully healthy!

Wow...awesome plants :cool:

WOW what a great set up! What else do you have in that greenhouse? I see a staghorn fern in there. :cool:

Do I see that some are sitting on a wood surface? How do you water these?

Do I see that some are sitting on a wood surface? How do you water these?
Hi Dot
yes on wood for now. The bench has 3 tiers,the 2 lower shelves have flour lights,humidity trays ect. Most of my multi paphs are on the top shelf-6 feet in the air/light and i water with a hose standing on a step stool! I have humidity trays and egg grate to put under them just never made it their yet.Most of the pots have side and bottom holes.

WOW what a great set up! What else do you have in that greenhouse? I see a staghorn fern in there. :cool:
Hi Teresa
I have LOTS of stuff. Way more than i should.I have orchid cactus,lots of cactus,aroids,a few palms,begonias,ect.
Also more orchids ect Do you want more pics??? where do i post them???? George

Hi Teresa
I have LOTS of stuff. Way more than i should.I have orchid cactus,lots of cactus,aroids,a few palms,begonias,ect.
Also more orchids ect Do you want more pics??? where do i post them???? George

Hi George,

You can post photos of your non orchids and other plants in the Off Topic Gallery, non slipper orchids in the Orchid Gallery and your slipper photos in the Slipper Galleries. :D

Here is a link (http://www.slipperorchidforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7028&highlight=grow+room) to photos of my collection/grow room. Thanks for looking!

Hi Teresa
I have LOTS of stuff. Way more than i should.I have orchid cactus,lots of cactus,aroids,a few palms,begonias,ect.
Also more orchids ect Do you want more pics??? where do i post them???? George

OF COURSE I want to see more pics!!!! Yes please post away in the OT gallery!

Finally I finished moving my plants for the winter. Here are the shots of my areas (click on images to enlarge):

This is in the master bathroom. I have a Doritis pulcherrima, butterwort, and Dtps. Lava Glow. They grow here year round and they love it. I think the ugly wallpaper will kill them before I do...:rolleyes:

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This is my 2 seasons room. It's pretty bare because it's not cold enough for me to move everything in there yet. I have to fit my potted rose, hibiscus, plumeria, and lime trees in there when it gets below freezing.

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This is my indoor atrium. I spent about an hour cleaning the hard water stains off the glass today...that is the one drawback to this set up. Daddy installed some overhead racks so that I can hang more plants in here. :D View from the living room (Sorry for the flash glare):

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Inside:

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My vanilla finally climbing up the wall:

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Very nice and your plants look great! How do you control/handle the cold temps inside your atrium?

Very nice and your plants look great! How do you control/handle the cold temps inside your atrium?

I have a thermometer in there and I monitor it pretty closely. It never goes below 45 degrees or gets above 95. :D I think it is pretty well insulated with the very high ceiling and brick walls and windows on 3 sides. The windows probably let in some heat from the house, and the ceiling is very high with a double layer of fiberglass on the top.

I have a thermometer in there and I monitor it pretty closely. It never goes below 45 degrees or gets above 95. :D I think it is pretty well insulated with the very high ceiling and brick walls and windows on 3 sides. The windows probably let in some heat from the house, and the ceiling is very high with a double layer of fiberglass on the top.

Excellent! Good job! :good:

Is that the Grande in the fifth photo? :D

Is that the Grande in the fifth photo? :D

It's a little hard to see in that photo, it's right behind my Sorcerer. Here is a better one, the Grande is in the middle of the bridge:

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I almost forgot my kitchen window (I tried really hard NOT to get any of the wallpaper in the pic):

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Grande has a very nice spot on the bridge, looks very happy!:D

The big light is a 800 watt combo 400 MH and a 400 hps. It moves on a 9 foot track. All kinds of orchids grow there. Phrags on the right, and large paphs on the left. At this time Phals and Paphs share the 8 foot flourescents. It is acombo of full spectrum and 65k daylight. The light are on from 7am until 8pm. I water with a spray hose from a near by sink. All the plants are on egg crates with plastic trays under them. This helps keep the humidy up.

Thanks for looking..............Jim

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It looks like you have an enormous basement! Those carts with the lights are very tidy, if I grew under lights that is what I would want.:cool:

PS... I hope you don't mind I edited your post a bit to make all the photos show up. ;)

Ah I see you are also on top of things!

;)

Jim, excellent setup! :cool: Mine is also similar to yours except that I use HPS only. Great looking plants!

You guys have such great setups and plants...good job...:cool:

You guys have such great setups and plants...good job...:cool:

Thanks! Let's see your setup too...don't be shy!:D

No setup just 4 plants:( ...no camera but I do need to get one...someday

It's fun to see how many ways there are of growing orchids.

Great grow shows everyone!

Here is my overcrowded light stand. The plants rest on egg crate over humidity trays. I plan to build a second stand just like this one since I ran out of room so quickly. I also plan to hang some shoplights under the bottom shelf for eventual flasks and compots...

For the second stand I will probably use a 250 w metal halide lamp to give a little more juice to my multis. My current set-up only has 175 w. I think my plants would also appreciate a little red-spectrum from high pressure sodium, but the orange glow would not be very pleasant in my living room. The blue light from the mh lamp actually is actually pretty nice, and my plants grow and bloom well under it. Thanks for looking. Justin

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phrag. longifolium
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paph. Cesar Delgado
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paph Wellesleyanum
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Justin, your setup and plants look great! :cool: Thanks for posting!

Great looking plants Justin! Cool set up!:D

Awesome plants...great setup :cool:

I *love* your Wellesleyanum!!! Very nice!

very beautiful plans

This looks like a good place for me to jump in. I started growing orchids 12 years ago, but had to give them up for 6 years while I was in the navy. I just got out about two months ago, and I'm rebuilding my collection. I finished building this setup today, it should be good for a few more months before I have to expand. :Grin:

http://www.orchidboard.com/community/gallery/data/500/medium/DSC00258_Small_.JPG

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Hi Tony!

Welcome to the Slipper Orchid Forum!:welcome: Your plants look great and they will love the south Florida temps and conditions, perfect environment for your slippers and most orchids! I lived in West Palm Beach for 5 years, I loved it but I just couldn't stand all that heat and humidity.

What slippers do you grow?

Super space Tony! Looks like paradise. :D

very nice space tony! those will be some happy plants and I bet a happy grower too.
J.

OMG Tony I want your yard!!! Nice plant racks! My father in law attempted to build me some wooden racks but they are not near as aesthetically pleasing as yours. We are going to landscape our backyard in the not too far future and I am going to refer back to your pics for ideas! :cool:

What is that on the ground? Is it some sort of rock or is it red mulch? It looks nice!

Welcome to the SOF!

It was very easy to build, the shelves are wire units from home depot, and the rest is just 4x4 posts and 2x4s for the shelf supports and hanging area. The ground is covered in red mulch.

Whoo hoo! I just got a new metal halide lamp
with 250 watts. I was running 175w mh before,
but the 250 is much brighter.

It is a very slippery slope
from fluorescents to HID, to bigger HID...
I thnink I've seen a few around here
with 2kw...

Justin

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9881/biggerlampzx2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Excellent! :cool: Now you should get a light mover next. :Grin:

Looks GREAT!!!!:iagree:

Awesome! :cool: ...and your plants look great.

Here is one of my growing areas. It is a reptile enclosure that I no longer am using. It has one 24" dual flourescent fixture. The bottom one is scheduled to have two 24" duals installed. All of my low light plants will be in the top one and the bright light ones below.

It is about equally divided between phals and paphs right now, with a couple of odd other species thrown in. There is one phrag in there as well, a besseae (Bleading Heart x Colossal). 6 or so paphs are missing from the enclosure so I can work on eliminating a small mealie but attack. Just found some on one of my phal seedlings tonight. Acephate to the rescue!!!!

I also have a glass shelved rack in an east facing window and various other windows are utilized as required.

Hi Steven,

Looks like a nice setup there! :cool:

That's a nice little grow area you have there! Lots of plants in there!

Excellent grow space Steven! I like the clean design! Looks well-ordered.
Justin.

One of my fav things about this forum are the pics other members post of their grow spaces and plants. Please post a photo of your set up.
Update of a few of my paphs

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/paphstanhopeaandphrags/th_MVC-018S-2.jpg (http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/paphstanhopeaandphrags/MVC-018S-2.jpg)

George, I love your multiflorals in your collection!:cool:

Awesome...:cool: thnx!

Wow, those are nice. Lot's of Roth genes in there, eh?

very beautiful paphis :biglove:

I have some images!!

[img=http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1290/things001editedxv7.th.jpg] (http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?image=things001editedxv7.jpg)

It didn't display! How do I make it display!!

I have some images!!

[img=http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1290/things001editedxv7.th.jpg] (http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?image=things001editedxv7.jpg)

It didn't display! How do I make it display!!

Nick,

Check out this link (http://www.slipperorchidforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8276). Hope this helps!

Peter, I don't see the one that starts with IMG. I am using imageshack.

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1290/things001editedxv7.th.jpg
take out these: and it'll display (not the first [img] or that last .

Peter, I don't see the one that starts with IMG. I am using imageshack.

Pick and copy and paste the link that says "Hotlink for forums" or something like that which should be the very first two from the top.

I will attempt to do It now.

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1290/things001editedxv7.th.jpg
take out these: and it'll display (not the first [img] or that last .

How much of the do I take out?
Here is another attempt. This is a different pic.

[img]http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/443/paphmaudiae001editedbq2.jpg

YAY!! I did it! I used the direct link And copied It and then put the around it!

Here is one of the four new slippers

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6503/foxvalleyplants001editevg3.jpg

:woohoo: You did it! :clap2: Your new plants look great!:cool:

Congrats to Nick for posting, I'm just going to send my pics to you!

Congrats to phragfan on your nice plants! Maybe you could ID them for us?

Congrats to Nick for posting, I'm just going to send my pics to you!

Congrats to phragfan on your nice plants! Maybe you could ID them for us?

That was my pic! She just made it display!

I have in it: Venustum album, micranthum, armeniacum, FV fireball, maudiae the queen, and some other regular orchids

Congrats to Nick for posting, I'm just going to send my pics to you!

Congrats to phragfan on your nice plants! Maybe you could ID them for us?
They are not phragfan's plants. I was just trying to help paphy57 with his link. But he figured it out.

:oops: I guess with over 3,000 posts - you have it figured out ! So OK - I'll send both you & Nick my pics!!!

:nicepaphs: :slippers:

"New" multi bench 8 x 3 foot I have room for MORE!:woohoo:
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/paphstanhopeaandphrags/MVC-019S-6.jpg

Great multi area! that bel royal spike is a monster. i need to get one of those.

Wow, your plants look very happy and blooming! :cool: More room = more plants!:thumbsup:

Beautiful! :thumbsup: I just added a third shelf for paph expansion! I post pics tomarrow.

Wow! This is such a fun thread. I enjoyed seeing everyone's growing spaces and plants!

This has been a work in progress the past couple of weeks. There needs to be a few more places to hang plants going up the walls. Also going to put in some 120watt flourescent bulbs way up top to utilize the top three feet of wall space that is below the HID light line. I figured the phals would go there. Stays at ~70-75% humidity.

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It looks great!

WOW great setup! I wish I had that much space...:thumbsup:

Great setup and all your plants look happy! :thumbsup:

Very Very Nice! Beautiful plants!!! :Thnx:

Awesome grow room! Your plants all look very healthy and happy.

Actually your collection is exactly to my taste. Heavy on the multis with some parvis thrown in for variety.

Best,
Justin

I like the foil! It's beautiful!

Teresa here are a some pics of my outside growing area. Thanks
John
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Your setup reminds me I have to move to Florida. ;) Or Hawaii.

Nice! I like it!

John, your plants and greenhouse look great and so clean! :thumbsup:

Indeed everything is so WHITE and PRETTY! Look at all those happy plants.

very beautifull :heart:

It looks great .... but I'm confused about something - how is this an outside growing area with blinds on the windows? Are there open sides?

John, Wow, it looks so beautiful and clean. Of course, the plants look so amazing too...LOL! :thumbsup: