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You probably already have one orchid, but want to expand that and grow an orchid collection
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but you're not really sure where to start. So I've been thinking about the same thing, and that's why I've been working on orchid journey
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And orchid journey is a tracker and a planner that will help you give you the north of where you're supposed to be going with your orchid care
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And it also has plenty of space to write down your personal growing conditions
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Really hard sometimes you look up on Google or YouTube and you come across all kinds of different information
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I mean, you know, do this, don't do that. And everyone seems to have a different opinion
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Well, that's because everybody's growing conditions are different. And you need to write down what works for you
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How much fertilizer should you use? And you write down, oh, this brand was too much
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It turned all my blooms out. I've done that. I mean, I've used way too much fertilizer once and turned all my order
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orchids yellow So I can write yellow next time not that much So it a way for you to keep track of what works for you in your environment And I chosen five different orchids that are beginner friendly
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And you can keep notes on these orchids as you try out different potting media
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as you try out different watering schedules, as you try out different pots or different placements around your house
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And you can keep track of that inside this journal. It is that it is printed on very durable
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paper that will not bleed through. The size of this tracker is perfect to put inside your purse or handback to take to a orchid shower and exposition
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And also, there is a place in here where I tell you where you can download a spreadsheet
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This is a planner that goes along with the website www.orgadaria.com. Because I've seen lots of plant planners that are so tiny, I've got to really squeeze in my notes
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and then I can't read them because I wrote too small. So this has plenty of room to actually write your notes in and read them see them and still be small enough to fit inside your handbag or purse It about increasing your knowledge in orchid care and what works for you
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When I started my orchid care, I had all these notes on these little, in a journal here
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and a notebook there, and a note card here, and they all got lost over time
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So then I forgot, well, what was that fertilizer I used last month or what was that name of
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or what was that podcast that I listened to? And I actually included a page where you can write down your favorite authors or podcast or you listen to or YouTube channels orchid shows
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There is a place to write down orchid shows. There's an orchid wish list because even though I do give you a list of 30 orchids that are great for beginners and I go in depth with five
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I couldn't go into all 30 of course because of page limitations in space and cost
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There's one thing I do want to make very clear. not a plant tracker. There are other journals that I do recommend for that. And if you're
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looking for just a normal plant tracker this is not the book for you because orchids are different from house plants and this is specifically toward orchids toward five orchids actually which are phalanopsis
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dandrobium, cateleum, miltonioopsis, and symbidiums. Orchid care is trial and error, but there is
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less error if you keep detailed notes about your errors so you can repeat them less and less
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along with detailed information about fertilization, lighting, watering, and potting media. I also include a chapter on each one of these five orchids
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So even though your growing conditions are different, you need to mimic how they grow in nature
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Well, how do they grow in nature? And that's what I'm going to give you. You're going to know, oh, the humidity is between this and this
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or they like this kind of acidity inside their potting media or their pH
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Oh, there are high light orchards or low light orchids, and what does that mean? Well, actually, I go into a full chapter of what that means for lighting and how to set your orchids up indoors
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And all, I wish you the best in your orchid care and happy cultivating
