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Old 03-24-2010, 04:35 PM
epiphyte epiphyte is offline
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Default Recent Florida Freezes - Survivors?

Thought it might be educational to start a thread where people from Florida could share lists of their orchids that survived the cold. Sharing lists of the survivors can be helpful for people looking to replace their orchids that did not survive the cold. If every year cold-tender orchids were replaced with eurythermal orchids then the percentage of orchids that survived cold spells would be greater each year...aka survival of the fittest. Eventually, more and more orchids could be grown outdoors more and more north.

If you are not in Florida but your orchids survived some significant cold then feel free to share your lists as well. Here in So Cal it didn't get too cold but here's a great article on some Cattleya alliance orchids that survived frost and here's a photo of Miltonia flavescens covered in snow.

Maybe as demand for eurythermal orchids increase the supply side will respond accordingly. Speaking of which, anybody ever see this article... Researchers Develop Cold-Resistant Orchid...written in 1983? I've never seen an Enduracold orchid so maybe the crosses didn't pan out? I'm guessing the Georgia orchid used in the cross was Epidendrum conopseum...the northernmost occurring epiphytic orchid in North America.

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