Thanks!
If I might address your interesting comment here, Carol?
Rot truly did not come to mind looking at these Orchids in the wild. Beaten by weather, chewed up by bugs - absolutely and you are totally right, at least in most places. But we were truly amazed how clean, healthy and strong most of the Orchids looked, gosh we looked at whole slopes full of strong looking Stelis and Pleurothallis, Sobralias greeting you at many turns on the sides of the highway and if you look at the Phrag besseae plants, they were downright gorgeous and perfect.
We actually were commenting a few times, that despite all that chilly rain we never saw outright Black Rot, which I would certainly see on my Cattleyas under those conditions.
But thanks, yes, I was/am happy to see my little group of Orchids happily blooming and looking healthy here
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