ninnymary
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Oh my goodness! SeedO, is she going to be an indoor pet?
Mary
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Deeply Rooted
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Good luck with you little Ellie. Some pot belly pigs stay small and cute, others? Not so much small.
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Now that you week at POW is nearly over, @hoodat, I wanted to let you know what a fine looking buck you have there. Reuben's pose shows that he thinks he's pretty fine looking as well. Good job!
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@marshallsmyth your Calypso orchids are the TEG POW featured on the home page this week! 
Carol Dee
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@marshallsmyth that is a stunning orchid.
baymule
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Beautiful orchids! Stunning picture to add some cheer to a frozen landscape many on TEG are now experiencing!
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Those little beauties will be blooming next spring. They make 1 or 2 small leaves that lay on the ground, then a 5 to 7 inch tall stem pops up with 1 or 2 flowers on top of it. The flowers last about a month.
They have pseudobulbs about the size of crocus corms but much softer, and a taproot that goes down to fungus. The fungus feeds it, and the ground fungus feeds off Fir tree root surfaces in a mutually beneficial cycle. Calypso orchids always seem to sprout in decaying Fir cones, always in the forest litter layer.
Not many people can successfully transplant Calypso Orchids. I get 6 out of 7 success though. You have to dig a deep and wide hole with your fingers, and lift it all out, then immediately transplant it to where there are more Fir trees in a much larger hole that you put a good amount of forest litter layer material in. Fir and Oak leaves mostly composted, with a small amount of the native soil mixed in.
They have pseudobulbs about the size of crocus corms but much softer, and a taproot that goes down to fungus. The fungus feeds it, and the ground fungus feeds off Fir tree root surfaces in a mutually beneficial cycle. Calypso orchids always seem to sprout in decaying Fir cones, always in the forest litter layer.
Not many people can successfully transplant Calypso Orchids. I get 6 out of 7 success though. You have to dig a deep and wide hole with your fingers, and lift it all out, then immediately transplant it to where there are more Fir trees in a much larger hole that you put a good amount of forest litter layer material in. Fir and Oak leaves mostly composted, with a small amount of the native soil mixed in.
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@catjac1975 , your rose is the POW feature on the home page!
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Yay! I am seeing it!
