Interesting stuff. Bob's log is great, but it looks like a lot of set up
work. The one I was keeping was similar to what Dave does. A few columns
differ, but that's to be expected.
Okay. Back to Excel, and off we go.
Diana
"Dave Gillingham" <dewg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Setting up the database (I use a spreadsheet) takes time. Once set up,
> the time
> in updating is trivial compared with the time to repot - & saves heaps
of
> time
> subsequently. I'll post a small part of mine on abpo as one example.
> When you
> look at it, the blank entries for shelf information are those that will
be
> repotted this spring, & so have not yet been entered. I only started
> including
> shelf info at last year's repot.
>
>
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:27:05 -0700, "K Barrett" <mormodes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>>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]
> wrote in message
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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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