Orchid Species Culture: Pescatorea, Phaius, Phalaenopsis, Pholidota, Phragmipedium, Pleione [Paperback]

Charles O. Baker (Author), Margaret Baker (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0881922080 | ISBN-13: 978-0881922080 | Publication Date: November 14, 2008

This volume covers six popular orchid genera: Pescatorea, Phaius, Phalaenopsis, Pholidota, Phragmipedium, and Pleione. The Bakers' unique approach to orchid cultivation, which they document in
this book, stresses the importance of main-taining climatic conditions similar to those in each species' native habitat. The ingenious climate tables created by the authors provide precise, usable information which enables the grower to adjust growing conditions - length of rest period, temperature, humidity, amount and timing of water and fertilizer - to approximate those of the species in the wild. The weather data is supplemented with information from successful growers.

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Book Description

This volume, the first in a projected series, covers six popular orchid genera. The Bakers' unique approach to orchid cultivation stresses the importance of maintaining climatic conditions similar to those in each species' native habitat. The climate tables created by the authors provide precise, usable information which enables the grower to adjust growing conditions to approximate those of the species in the wild. The weather data is supplemented with information from successful growers. No illustrations. Acidic paper. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: Timber Press (November 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881922080
• ISBN-13: 978-0881922080
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,750,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dendrobiums culture, December 19, 2009

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This review is from: Orchid Species Culture: Pescatorea, Phaius, Phalaenopsis, Pholidota, Phragmipedium, Pleione (Paperback)

If you're trying to grow species Dendrobiums you really have to know something about the conditions your plant likes in the wild. It may grow ok anyway, but if you give it what it really wants it will grow wild. The Bakers always deliver when it comes to cultural information for your orchids. No pictures, just information by the ton. If you want to know about your species dendrobium, it's there. Also great for looking up the species your hybrid came from. The book is also great for pressing flowers when you're not reading it. As typical for the Bakers, it's huge. This is one of the first paperbacks I've seen for the Bakers information. It seems to be well made especially for such a large paperback. There are 90 pages missing from the back of the book which need to be downloaded from a given site.