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08-10-2011, 01:33 PM
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| My latest find at the supermarket
A couple of weeks ago, I was at my local supermarket and I decided to check out their orchids. I almost never do this because a while I made a vow to not buy anymore NOID orchids, and it seems like everyone in my area pulls the labels out and discards them (I find this frustrating to no end, but I really want to know what I am getting. One of the plants caught my eye, and it was labelled, I pulled the label out and found it was a Phal. Baldan's Kaleidoscope 'Golden Treasure' AM/AOS. Not only was the plant labelled, but it was a plant that was on my wish list! Anyways, I got it home and repotted it. I wanted to get out of its packed down sphagnum moss and into my preferred medium. Well I decided to take a couple of pictures since some of the flowers are starting to collapse now. So here you go:  |
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08-10-2011, 01:35 PM
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It's a nice one !!
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08-10-2011, 02:38 PM
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Good find!! 
__________________ Brigitte  |
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08-10-2011, 02:56 PM
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Very nice color, texture and the veinings of the bloom is shimmering...the plant is healthy with a long spike...it might give you more blooms if you do the right thing for it...
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08-10-2011, 03:16 PM
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Wow! Great Find - its on my wish list too. 
__________________  Dian |
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08-10-2011, 07:23 PM
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Finding a tagged orchid in a supermarket is a rare find in my experience, that's great and is beautiful 
__________________ "My life is but the life of winds and tides, No more than winds and tides can I avail:" -Keats- |
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08-10-2011, 09:30 PM
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Got the same orchid myself last year and it's in bloom right now too. Congrats!!
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08-10-2011, 10:51 PM
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Congrats! Very pretty phal!
__________________ Barb  |
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08-10-2011, 11:09 PM
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What a great find !! I bet you will look from now on  How did its root look when you repotted it ? You're a lucky ducky to find that beauty!
__________________ Life is too short.... Buy more orchids!!!!   Emmaye |
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08-10-2011, 11:20 PM
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The roots were in surprisingly good condition. I only found a couple that were rotted. And, believe it or not, the bulk of the rotted/dead roots were the aerial roots. I repotted in a good clear pot with medium bark (this has become my preferred media for phals it dries in less than a week when in my grow tent, I have changed over from sphagnum my entire collection save for the smallest specimens). So, yeah, the roots were in extremely good condition all things considered.
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