which addiction is harder to get over: orchids or caffeine?

Well, put it this way Joanna: Caffeine addiction doesn't need two support newsgroups for fellow sufferers to commune with each other. And sharing the burden certainly makes coping with the addiction more pleasureable.

Furthermore, it also br>Kathy's comment in the WOC thread "If anyone who thinks growing orchids

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Helloooooooooooo Joanna, Gosh it's been a long time, is it really 2 years? Your baby is two years old already? You know, I was going to start a thread, on "Where Are They now?" You would have been up there on the list. Do you remember a discussion on reasons to buy another orchid & I said to buy a blooming one close to the day your baby was born then it would be a reminder each year. Don't worry about the relapses, if you think the terrible two's are bad, there are things called teenagers! That will be the time you really enjoy your plants! *g* Nice to hear from you so keep in touch. Cheers Wendy (Who is addicted to both orchids & coffee)

Hmm, unfortunately or fortunately I do seem to be into orchids again. Today I put up the grow lights again, so that hopefully I will have more spikes in the fall--the meager results of this season gave me the incentive to do better again. I am still able to resist the pull to buy a new orchid for now, but I fear not for much longer.

Joanna

Why give up coffee? I told my husband to stick a thermos bottle of fresh brew in my coffin when I die. I gave up smoking but will never give up my coffee. :^)

"Manelli Family" snipped-for-privacy@home.com wrote in news:fo85t3$mib$1 @aioe.org:

I gave up smoking after 30 years but I'm still stuck with my orchid addiction. Like a black hole it sucks me to every orchid sale and sucker punches me at the 50% off table.

speaking of which, while researching a newbie grower lecture i've somehow been swindled into agreeing to give, came across this:

'You can get off alcohol and drugs, but you never get off orchids ...'

"The more research I did," says Hansen, "the more I came to see them less as criminals than as pragmatic conservationists. You learn a lot in the orchid world."

Truer words were never spoken - or quoted...

Someone should write a murder mystery or spy novel/thriller about the orchid world. But no one would believe it.

Sandra K Moore wrote The Orchid Hunter in 2005 It was to have an orchid on the cover until the editor and artist created another 'flower.' ... ".dedicated her life to tracking down the world's rarest flowers. But finding the Death Orchid was different. The legendary medicinal flower could save her dying uncle -- if she could keep the precious bloom out of her greedy competitors' hands."