Hey Doug, yikes man, glad to hear you're still with us!! Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Hey Myka, (As Doug knows..) I'm a recovering orchidaholic too. Before I really ramped up my reefing I was up to several hundred plants ... it was kinda bad
Well, not really. But my house couldn't deal with the humidity so I more or less had to pare it down. Well, that, and, I kind of got wigged out by constantly fighting mealybug, scale, etc. Nowadays I'm down to maybe about a more manageable 30 plants, mostly phrags. I just keep the ones that do well for me, luckily that happens to be phrags. Although my "crown jewel" is a largish D. spectabile ... I had about 60 flowers on it this last Christmas (sadly just finishing up though - I can't believe I didn't think to take a picture of it
). Unfortunately my hibiscus tree has dropped aphids on it
So that plant is gonna need a bath. And I'm thinking the hibiscus (aka the aphid bait), pretty as it is when it feels like growing, has to got to go.
Anyhow Doug it's great to have you back. Hang in there dude!