[mayres]

Winterwhite - I have been learning many of the same lessons. I have about 100 plants all growing in office or home (spare room) environments. The paphs and phals do wonderfully under my fluorescents year round. The dends, catts, onc's, and other higher light need plants I put outside on the east side of my house in mid April or so - which bloomed them well last fall and into spring (under fluorescents during the cold season). One of the genera I have yet to figure out how to do well are the miltoniopsis types - that seem to be suffering for lack of humidity - accordian leaves and flowers that don't want to fully open. Absolutely - not all genera are going to do well with each of our environments that we have available for them. Once we find what we can do well the others will just have to be appreciated at the shows or online I guess - or pray that we might someday be fortunate enough to have a greenhouse environment like some have......In the meantime, we all continue to experiment and see what we can do and enjoy these lovelies..............