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August 2022

  • 6201 East Willow Street Long Beach, CA, 90815 United States (map)

Ray Barkalow of First Rays: Biological Products Based on Beneficial Bacteria and Fungi to Enhance Plant Growth

Ray is informative and entertaining. Being a scientist and engineer with over 45 years of orchid-growing experience, Ray has a unique “take” on orchid growing, challenging the “historical knowledge” (or mythology) about orchid culture, and attempting to use science and logic to explain it or debunk it.

He has a website (https://firstrays.com/) with loads of information for all levels of orchid growers.

A recent interest of Ray’s is in the area of plant nutrition and water quality, their impact on our plants, and how they relate to our feeding and watering programs:

  • Origins of our plants

  • Their natural growing conditions, and water & nutrient supplies

  • Plant evolution impact

  • Sources of irrigation water – good & bad

  • Practicality of Reverse Osmosis

  • Selecting and using fertilizers

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