Heck I was just going to use Excel....
K
"Diana Kulaga" <diandfrank@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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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