Parker update

[Anansi]

Btw, I think you should hold off on considering any hormone treatments until you've exhausted other avenues of approach. As Julie mentioned, being in a new home might change things.

As for that Dracula orchid, that little face is amazing! Haha! My first time seeing it (thanks for the link, Julie!)

 

[chris-md]

Btw, I think you should hold off on considering any hormone treatments until you've exhausted other avenues of approach. As Julie mentioned, being in a new home might change things.

As for that Dracula orchid, that little face is amazing! Haha! My first time seeing it (thanks for the link, Julie!)

That's what I told her. Too many things were wrong that could cause this that hormone treatments on the last thing on my mind. She mumbled something about usually coming back to it.

Dracula has certainly are not easy, but enough people grow them that you aren't necessarily considered a god. You just have to have the technology and the microclimate. Maybe the basement and a rigged up glass aquarium. Or if you're going to do a greenhouse, the greenhouse should be in the shade and needs to have a swamp cooler.

 

[DexMom]

That extra humidity for the orchids might be just what Parker needs in the dry winter months. I know my skin gets dry, flaky and itchy in the winter when we're using the heat. Parker's might get dry as well and maybe he plucks his feathers looking for relief. Mist him with your orchids!

 

[chris-md]

Oh if only it were that simple. Missing plants is an old wives tale and doesn't affect the humidity (as a gas, water vapor dissipates to he rest of the house too quickly to have effect). Plus I'm so over my orchids I basically abuse them with lack of water.

However, Parker could possibly be getting his own bedroom next to the living room so a humidifier is a definite possibility!

 

[Anansi]

His own bedroom? So you decided not to go with the basement after all?

 

[chris-md]

No decision is made yet, though I'm getting pressure to make up my mind. Experiencing a bit of analysis paralysis where all options have serious drawbacks. DH recently floated that we could move him into our main guest bedroom (feet from the living room). I'm looking hard at that option. The transition must happen in the next two weeks or my asno is grasso.

 

[DexMom]

My house gets so dry in the winter that we're considering adding a whole house humidifier to the air handling system. I just realized I'd better check to make sure it's safe for Dexter. I can't imagine that it would be harmful since it's simply adding a measured amount of moisture to the air using filtered water as the source.

 

[GreatBlue320]

Look at those new feathers! So exciting!