So, what does everyone use for this purpose? I had an Excel spreadsheet.
With it, I could add hyperlinks, sort, etc. But I'm hearing you guys talk
about data bases.
Which do you use?
Diana
"K Barrett" <mormodes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>I wound up re-entering a lot of names just so I could search the database
>easier. For example plants were listed as Blc, brassolaeliocattleya and
>every spelling in between. A computer genius I'm not but I learned
>consistency isn't a hobgoblin of small minds where databases are
concerned,
>*G*. I wish she had recorded when each plant exited out of the
collection.
>What initially looked like over 1000 plants on paper wound up being about
>300 or so in real life. So far. We still have the outdoor plants to do.
>But again, it should be easy to mark who's present and accounted for..
>
> K Barrett
>
> "Dave Gillingham" <dewg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Kathy, there's another use as well as the unpleasant long term
>> consideration. It
>> helps no end in tracking repotting & other treatment needs. I also try
>> to
>> record *where* each plant is in my collection now. That's after
>> searching &
>> swearing, trying to find a particular plant (or many) that my database
>> says
>> should be repotted.
>>
>> And, while I don't keep it all as up to date as I should, I do ensure
>> that each
>> purchase, loss, repot, and position on shelf is recorded.
>>
>> For repotting, I find it far easier to sort the database by repot date
>> than to
>> work my way through the entire collection looking for the date of last
>> repot on
>> each tag.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:50:55 -0700, "K Barrett" <mormodes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Marilyn Light (North American chair of the Orchid Specialist Group)
used
>>>to
>>>give OrchidSafari chats on the idea of orchid conservation vis a vis
>>>hobbyist's orchid collections. Or to put it another way, since habitat
>>>is
>>>being lost our collections just may wind up housing im****tant plants,
>>>maybe
>>>even one's no longer found in the wild. You may or may not agree with
>>>that
>>>idea but one of the things Marilyn used to stress was to keep and
>>>maintain a
>>>list of all your orchids, hybrids included, because some just might
>>>become
>>>im****tant.
>>>
>>>Lo and behold, my mentor did keep a list of her orchids. More
im****tantly
>>>she *maintained* the list! Dang, she even input purchases made just a
>>>few
>>>days before she died. (The woman was compulsive, *G*.) I can't tell
you
>>>how easy it has been for her family to figure out what's in the GH. It
>>>only
>>>took a day to figure out what's still extant in her collection. Way
more
>>>easy than the daunting task of cataloging what's in her library and
>>>potting
>>>shed.
>>>
>>>So, while Marilyn Light might have had some lofty goal, thinking that a
>>>list
>>>of what's in the GH could conserve orchids in the wild, in reality its
>>>made
>>>one facet of my mentor's heir's lives real easy. People here have
>>>mentioned
>>>their orchid databases, some that even include flowering records.
*Kudos
>>>to
>>>you all!* I never really was 'together' enough to make a list of my
>>>orchids, much less keep it current but now I'm considering it and
>>>including
>>>my library's books, too. I figure my heirs deserve a clue as to what's
>>>worthwhile in all the crap they may want to dump or sell on eBay.
>>>
>>>K Barrett
>>>
>> Dave Gillingham
>>
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