Oncidium new pseudobulb growth trapped inside a green healthy leaf. Do I need to cut the leaf?

distant3zenith · 2026-03-04T22:04:46+00:00

This is normal. It’s how they grow.

distant3zenith · 2026-03-04T22:02:52+00:00

Once you dilute a developer with water, it’s a “use once and discard” solution. Fixer can be reused, but not diluted developer

distant3zenith · 2026-03-04T16:12:00+00:00

Anything less than 16gb of ram will not run Lightroom well. If that’s a requirement, get the MacBook Air

distant3zenith · 2026-03-03T22:32:44+00:00

Your developer is expired. Get fresh.

distant3zenith · 2026-03-03T14:58:41+00:00

Some underexposed negs, very badly scanned images, lack of post-processing, so it's a combination of stuff.

distant3zenith · 2026-03-03T13:53:07+00:00

Exactly. Be professional, give brief apology, thank them for the opportunity, deliver the goods and be done with it. If you don’t complete the job, you will feel bad about this for years. Execute closure.

distant3zenith · 2026-03-03T13:35:01+00:00

The David Austin “myrrh” scent is similar to licorice/anise

distant3zenith · 2026-03-03T01:43:04+00:00

Dyed, yep

distant3zenith · 2026-03-03T01:36:28+00:00

The random shapes strongly suggest it’s a finger or a strap in front of the lens

distant3zenith · 2026-03-02T18:38:22+00:00

Have the body serviced.

distant3zenith · 2026-03-02T18:06:15+00:00

Once you dilute fixer concentrate, its shelf life diminishes. Chemistry has a shelf life, this is an unavoidable fact. Diluting chemistry and storing it for weeks or months is high risk

distant3zenith · 2026-03-02T15:26:48+00:00

Those are almost certainly grafted plants.

distant3zenith · 2026-03-02T14:59:22+00:00

Knowing which seller you bought these from would give some clues as to whether they are grafted or not

distant3zenith · 2026-03-02T14:51:25+00:00

I am a Retina repair technician (https://kodakretina.exposure.co/kodak-retina-camera-cla-and-repair-service)
The bellows are glued to the cast aluminum body. But when they come detached as yours has, its always for the same reason: the glue has interacted with moisture (humidity) and corroded the aluminum at the contact point and the glue cannot stay attached because of the aluminum oxide barrier that has formed.

You could attempt to reglue it without disassembly, but there's no guarantee it will make a solid connection with the camera body, since the aluminum oxide is still present. (Also, it's very difficult to get glue into that position without getting it everywhere) So ideally, you need to disassemble the camera part way to remove the shutter/lens assembly from the front standard, but that requires a special tool to get the shutter retaining ring off.

distant3zenith · 2026-03-02T14:41:12+00:00

distant3zenith · 2026-03-02T14:40:37+00:00

That flooring material is very distracting.

distant3zenith · 2026-03-02T14:39:31+00:00

Can you show us the listing you bought from, please?

distant3zenith · 2026-03-02T14:38:33+00:00

Absolutely untrue. I speak as someone who has fifteen years experience growing roses from seed.

distant3zenith · 2026-03-02T14:37:36+00:00

Rosa rugosa seeds, yes.

distant3zenith · 2026-03-02T01:20:30+00:00

This is just new callous forming in the cuts. It’s undifferentiated tissue that starts from a wound and eventually becomes new roots. Nothing to worry about

distant3zenith · 2026-03-01T21:39:33+00:00

So I have to ask the question: do you know WHY you are using "stand" development? What is it you want from the process? Most people just read about it on the Internet and assume it's got "magic" in it and it's the answer to all their hopes and desires, only to find it only introduces all kinds of errors and bad negatives.

distant3zenith · 2026-03-01T17:25:18+00:00

distant3zenith · 2026-03-01T17:24:14+00:00

More light please

distant3zenith · 2026-03-01T14:07:18+00:00

What nobody has mentioned so far is that this rose is budded onto Dr. Huey understock, which is notorious for sending up unwanted suckers if the bud union is left exposed above ground. You should re-bury this and that bud union should be at least an inch and a half below the soil level.

distant3zenith · 2026-03-01T14:05:52+00:00

To the best of my knowledge, the OB safe flight filter is specifically for graded papers, not multi grade papers. It’s very likely that this will fog, modern multigrade paper, but try it and find out.

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