Dendrobium packs a tremendous amount of information in a simple-to-use format. It combines weather records and habitat reports with information from successful growers as the basis for cultural recommendations for all of the more than 1,200 dendrobium species. The book includes a general introduction to orchid culture, plus a detailed appendix on plant nutrients and orchid pests and diseases. Dendrobium growers around the world can continue to rely on the climate tables that provide specific information on the seasonal climate in each plant's native habitat. Numerous commercial growers have found that slight modifications in their growing conditions have dramatically improved the health and growth rates of their plants. By adjusting the length of the rest period, temperatures, humidity, or amount and timing of water and fertilizer, growers are able to solve growth problems and prevent disease.
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Monthly rainfall and temperature data for the varied habitats for over 1200 species of Dendrobium, supplemented by detailed cultural recommendations.
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Charles Baker is an avid gardener and former meteorologist with the National Weather Service. With his late wife, Margaret Baker, he wrote Orchid Species Culture: Dendrobium and Orchid Species Culture: Pescatorea, Phaius, Phalaenopsis, Pholidota, Phragmipedium, and Pleione, as well as numerous articles for Orchids (the publication of the American Orchid Society) and Orchid Digest. The Bakers spent most of their careers in Alaska, where Charlie worked as a meteorologist for more than thirty years and Marg was a scrimshaw artist, jewelry maker, and administrator in the Alaskan bush. After moving to Portland, Oregon, the Bakers became avid amateur orchid enthusiasts and frequent contributors to Orchids, Orchid Advocate, and Orchid Hunter, among other journals.
Margaret Baker was a frequent contributor to the American Orchid Society Bulletin. She was an avid amateur orchid enthusiast and with her husband Charles previously wrote Orchid Species Culture: Dendrobium and Orchid Species Culture: Pescatorea, Phaius, Phalaenopsis, Pholidota, Phragmipedium, and Pleione published by Timber Press. Margaret Baker died in 2003. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Margaret Baker was a frequent contributor to the American Orchid Society Bulletin. She was an avid amateur orchid enthusiast and with her husband Charles previously wrote Orchid Species Culture: Dendrobium and Orchid Species Culture: Pescatorea, Phaius, Phalaenopsis, Pholidota, Phragmipedium, and Pleione published by Timber Press. Margaret Baker died in 2003. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Great book for all Dendrobium growers,
This review is from: Orchid Species Culture: Dendrobium (Orchard Species Culture) (Paperback)
This is a great book for all Dendrobium growers, it contents all Dendrobium SPP culture information, and where it came from. Even without pictures, this book still a MUST buy/read item for all orchid collector or Dendrobium lover
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An amazing and prodigious effort was undertaken to compile this encyclopedic work - if you cannot grow the majority on dendrobium species after getting this book and studying the information contained therein - then you are doing something wrong!
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This is another affordable paperback with information from the Bakers with the information you need on how to grow your species orchids from Pescatorea to Pleione. It's well constructed to withstand the amount of wear it will undoubtedly get. This is not your typical monolith from the Bakers. It's a normal book size less than an inch thick. The are pictures on the cover only.
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SPECIES: Botanical name of species. The plant name is followed by the name of the original describer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sympodial epiphyte, seasonal light variation, winter days average, morning mistings, semidry periods, cultivation records, triangular lateral sepals, diurnal range, cork slabs, probable extremes, triangular sidelobes, unreported size, moisture from morning dew, oblong dorsal sepal, pendulous growth habit, frequent heavy deposits, mist from fog, racemes emerge, very short rhizome, mounting plants, unlobed lip, plants that produce flowers, pendent growth habit, slight drying, undersized pots Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Chiang Mai, Opera Botanica, Luzon Island, New Britain, The International Orchid Commission, Molucca Islands, New Ireland, Sepik River, Cape York Peninsula, Torricelli Range, Ambon Island, North Borneo, Mindanao Island, New South Wales, Noord River, Sri Lanka, Kew Bulletin, Kani Range, Minahassa Peninsula, Waria River, Dischore Range New!
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SPECIES: Botanical name of species. The plant name is followed by the name of the original describer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sympodial epiphyte, seasonal light variation, winter days average, morning mistings, semidry periods, cultivation records, triangular lateral sepals, diurnal range, cork slabs, probable extremes, triangular sidelobes, unreported size, moisture from morning dew, oblong dorsal sepal, pendulous growth habit, frequent heavy deposits, mist from fog, racemes emerge, very short rhizome, mounting plants, unlobed lip, plants that produce flowers, pendent growth habit, slight drying, undersized pots Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Chiang Mai, Opera Botanica, Luzon Island, New Britain, The International Orchid Commission, Molucca Islands, New Ireland, Sepik River, Cape York Peninsula, Torricelli Range, Ambon Island, North Borneo, Mindanao Island, New South Wales, Noord River, Sri Lanka, Kew Bulletin, Kani Range, Minahassa Peninsula, Waria River, Dischore Range New!
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