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My First non-Lowe's, non-Grocery-Store, non-Phal Orchid Adventure!!!
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My First non-Lowe’s, non-Grocery-Store, non-Phal Orchid Adventure!!!


Hi all, I just must share. Screw these big box stores. I just had to drive out maybe 40 minutes from where I live….. and spent the entire day Orchid Shopping….. my eyes are wide open now. No rotting roots, healthy, ready to just grow plants…… Please tell me what you think? I don't know if I did good. These are young plants, but I just kinda bought what they recommended and told me NOT TO FUSS!!! LOL. THEY DO NOT NEED TO BE REPOTTED!!! YAY!

  • Brassocattleya Hamlyn’s Magic ‘Leilani’
  • Oncidium Tsiku Marguerite
  • Bulbophylum lobbii Kathy's Gold AM/AOS
  • Cattleya Aurantiaca
  • Sophrolaeliocattleya Long Life Angle 'Paradise'
  • Epilaeliocattleya Mitsuko Takasaki

Total $140. I have honestly NO IDEA what the names mean, never heard of many of the breeds like bulbo?? or if they are good breeds or species or whatever… but no more showy Phals with rotten roots and hard plugs……. I would love to hear any thoughts on this haul.

So tired now….. at least I don't have the energy to kill them. lol. I guess I'm trying to graduate from newbie to semi-newbie….?? Let's see if it's me or if it's just rotten big box store orchids!!

by XOneAIByst

19 Comments

  2. Rude_Ad9788

    How wonderful! Its so nice to get actually healthy plants that won’t need repotting for some time. I can’t speak to the specifics of these plants, but they look all well grown and healthy. Looks like you have a lot of research ahead of you.😀😍🌺

  3. 1or2throwaway

    I got the mitsuko takasaki from Lowe’s as a 4″ bag baby and I got really lucky because it was in pretty good shape. It started growing a new pseudobulb almost immediately and it’s been constantly growing roots.

  5. littlesugarcloud

    I will say let them stay in the pot for a week or 2 before repotting. Quarantine them from other plants you have. I would get a big bucket, soak each plant for an hour to see if there is snail hide in the media. As my own experience, I got one from one of a very reputable nursery came with the little bad boys. I understand it is normal, so not going to say the name.

    Bulbophylum is a very interesting orchid, but the smell may surprise you in the bad way. Definitely do some reason for each of them to get care instructions.

  6. OpinionatedOcelotYo

    I got that oncidium, I do lotsa light lotsa moisture it flowers like crazy starting about this time of year – I see spikes! And that’d be a terrific price for here. If it loves me it must be easy 🙂

  7. Wild_Challenge2377

    Nice! The Bulbophyllum is a famous awarded clone of this species that’s been around for many years. Not one of the stinky Bulbophyllums.

  8. RollingTit

    This is so fun! Great haul. You got a really good mix here.

    I highly recommend any of MissOrchidGirl YouTube videos if you have any questions on care for these. They all want sort of different care. It may be hard to keep straight at first but best of luck!

    These all look super healthy and depending on your environment, some may do better for you than others even if you think you did everything right. Don’t get discouraged. Nothing like getting one to bloom for you!

  14. Lindenfoxcub

    Nice haul 🙂 most, if not all of those will need a lot more light that phals need to bloom, so if they’re not growing and blooming, it will likely help to provide supplemental lighting of you don’t have a good window.

    I was under the impression that bulbophyllums are moisture loving plants that require a greenhouse or something to raise the humidity, but I got a longissimum and it’s doing perfectly fine in a fairly heavy, water retaining mix with no humidity control.

  17. julieimh105

    Great haul, just leave them be, stick them pot and all in a decorative or terracotta if they seem too top heavy. Research each type for care and watering. The oncidium doesn’t like to dry out completely by the way, while the ones with cattleya in the name will want to dry out before watering. I never soak any of my 260 plus orchids. They get watered from the top of the media and drain through according to their watering needs. (I have an app so I can keep up). My bulbos are all mounted and get watered daily with all my other mounted and bare rooted types. I’m in deep SE Louisiana. Happy growing.

  18. julieimh105

    Great haul, just leave them be, stick them pot and all in a decorative or terracotta if they seem too top heavy. Research each type for care and watering. The oncidium doesn’t like to dry out completely by the way, while the ones with cattleya in the name will want to dry out before watering. I never soak any of my 260 plus orchids. They get watered from the top of the media and drain through according to their watering needs. (I have an app so I can keep up). My bulbos are all mounted and get watered daily with all my other mounted and bare rooted types. I’m in deep SE Louisiana. Happy growing. BTW your oncidium appears to be in spike 😊

  19. Mak3mydae

    Just a bit of naming convention as you become an expert orchid collector: species are always lowercase and hybrids are always uppercase. Cattleya Aurantiaca for example should be Cattleya aurantiaca as aurantiaca is a species; same for lobbii! ‘Kathy’s Gold’ is a cultivar/clonal name that goes in single quotes after the species or hybrid name, meaning it’s a specific version of that plant and only asexual reproductions of it via division or cloning will carry that name to have genetically identical versions of it.

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