The Babies are Home!

We have finally set up the greenhouse in the yard and brought the babies home from the other greenhouse! It still looks like a gypsy tent.

We have run an extension cord out the window onto the covered front porch to plug in the fan. The fan is on the porch blowing through the greenhouse door. We are keeping one of the door curtains up so the fan can blow the air in properly. It has been really hot here a couple of days already also, and there hasn't been any sunburn or issues so far. We still have not been home during the day to see how much light is really coming in. This weekend we will see how the light is and decide it we have enough shading or too much etc. 

We couldn't believe the plants all fit on this one rack. And there's extra space! Only on the top shelves though where I'm too nervous to put most of the plants. I'm afraid they will cook up there. I have not moved the Phals outside. I want to see what the light is like all day before I do that. I really don't want them to burn when they have been doing so well. 

The plants seemed quite happy in the professional greenhouse, although I think they were getting a little too much light with not enough water. Quite a few of them are looking a bit yellow. 

I'm not hugely concerned about it. It's mostly the older leaves and pseudobulbs. The yellow leaves will eventually get bad and I will cut them off. The rest of the plant will be fine.

 We treated all the plants with Physan when we brought them home to make sure they don't have any cooties. Physan is a bactericide, fungicide, viruscide, and algaecide. It's supposed to be really good. We didn't notice any real signs of issues, but just in case. It has been warm, so not really good fungus conditions. 

We are on a mission to make them grow really well this year to make up for last year. A lot of them have been growing over the winter in the greenhouse which is awesome because they didn't grow very well last growing season. We are trying to do the nitrogen boost method to get good growth. We got Miracle Gro in low concentration and SuperThrive together that we are going to use for a few weeks. We will then switch back to our regular Dyna Gro- Grow formula. I have NOT used the high nitrogen on the plants that are spiking. I used our regular Dyna Gro-Bloom on those.