Hi from Wichita, KS

[Atriel]

Hello all,
My fiancee gave me my very first orchid yesterday! Yay! It's a phalaenopsis, a white one.
I'm woefully ignorant about orchids but trying to get up to speed.
I love this plant and spent all night looking up things up about orchids but I'm still afraid that I'm going to kill it.
So I'm off to read the boards.

Atriel

[fred]

hi Atriel

welcome to the forum

I hope that you enjoy your stay here with all of us orchidgeeks

i think you will fine the link useful

dont be scared to ask any questions as we are all here to help.



Orchid Care for Phalenonopis & Paphiopedilum Orchids

[prisana]

Hi Atriel, Welcome aboard This forum has it all as you will fine out soon enough, we have a lot of knowledgeable people who will try to help as much as they can. Then there's me..not very knowledgeable, but pretty helpful
Good luck on your first orchid.. and happy growing.

[DDS2007]

hi atriel
i bought my first orchid (a phal also) one and half months ago , i stuck to this forum ever since and now feel pretty confident about growing them. this forum is very helpful and everybody is ready to offer advice. so ask , ask and ask , we'll all be very happy to help

happy growing

[PhalPal]

Welcome Atriel - Lots of people interested in you doing well with your orchid. Watch out tho, next thing you know you will have hundreds!

[chefatplay]

Atriel, it's been one month for me, my "mother" orchid being a white phal, and now, thanks to this forum, I have three orchids and four african violets! And they are surviving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the forum for you. Read and enjoy.

PS: Find the thread on the bamboo skewer watering method. Sorry, I would attach it, but I don't know how to do that yet. Look in the newbie section, Cynthia Prescott will get you straight on that. If I'm not mistaken, this valuable lesson is right near the top. Well worth the read. Welcome, Welcome.

[brookn]

Hi Atriel,

Welcome to the forum. It is a small world sometimes. I was born in Hutchinson, KS, my dad is from Mt Hope, my mom is from Burrton, and My granny and aunt live in Witchita. GO STATE! (unless you are a Jayhawk fan of course lol) You can find all kinds of great information for your plant here.

[Atriel]

hi again everyone and thank you for the kind words - I'm starting to feel better about taking care of the orchid.

Brookn, I'm actually a KS transplant. I moved here from South Carolina - so I'm still adjusting the differences in weather, etc.

Thanks again everyone, I think I'm officially addicted.

[fred]

Quote]I think I'm officially addicted.

awesome that is what we like to hear

dont forget there is no questions here deemed silly.

happy chatting

[Atriel]

I have some pictures and a question that I want to post but I need to get a couple of posts in before it'll let me.
So I'm bumping up my post count.
Sorry about this, I'll delete these as soon as I get it up to the right amount.

[Atriel]

bumping for post count

[Atriel]

bumping again for post count

[pikevi]

Hello Atriel, Welcome to the forum.

You only have one orchid. As the number of orchids increases your number of posts will increase too. I don't think just 'bumping' the number of posts serves any useful purpose

May be there is some benefit which I may not be aware of.

Best wishes with the orchid(s).

[Atriel]

Hi Pikevi,
In this case there was a purpose.
I'm a new member that had less than 5 posts.
I had a question that I wanted to include pictures with.
I up loaded the pictures to my server and then tried to include them in my post but since I had under 5 posts it wouldn't let me post something with external links.
So you see ... a purpose.

[pikevi]

Oh.. Thank you.

I did not know that there was a stipulation like that

Thanks for the clarification