Last year my husband and I build an orchid house, it came out beautiful, with spray mist too. Here in Miami the hot summer is really hot. I always go to the orchids shows, I'm crazy with my orchids. I have books one is DR.Motes,very well known he's from the south it explains month by month the care of the orchids everybody should buy, love it. norma

Same problem here! In Canada we don't get much of a selection. I keep hearing about the varieties at Lowes, too. We don't have one. We don't even have a Canadian ebay seller, and there aren't many orchid growers. I finally found one in our province [BC.] But he doesn't quite have what I'm looking for.
If only the over the border thing wasn't so complicated and expensive!
Oops! Maybe I'm a little cranky waiting for the weather to change.

yes I have and do bec I want sometin different than the phals on display. the bag babies have always looked good and healthy. You dont kill em till you take em out of the bag. I thought about buying em and just leaving em in the bag, like a bonsai kitty :)

I just bought 4 Catts at the local Lowes.. they had just come in. All 4 have 5 pbulbs., and I can see that three of them have bloomed. Roots are beautiful and I am thrilled with them. they were very potbound with roots coming out the holes in the bottom. I repotted when I got them home. Am hoping they will bloom for me. I have just started with the catts and before I spend a good deal of money, these will be a learning time for me. Love them. Oh, and our hd has never had anything but phals. And all in poor cond.
Becky

Once in a while our Home depot gets in cymbidium or some oncydium hybrids. I got a noid brasidium out of bloom that is really a fast grower, but mostly there are the usual phals that they don't look after. Rona is better, but we only have a small one here on the island, and it has nothing. No one sells them in bags.

Last fall, I got a Den. aggregatum as a bag baby, it recently bloomed. I was at a local Lowes the other day and picked up another aggregatum in bloom, Onc. ampliatum out of bloom and Encyclia profusa with close to 20 buds. The Den and Enc are in full bloom right now. Sometimes you find some real gems in the bag.

Wow! It must be fun going there! Cool surprises!

I buy bagged orchids if they are on my want list or have lineage on my want list.

I recently picked up a Dendrobium lindleyi that had nice roots on the surface, but unfortunately is a rotted mess underneath.

I also got a Brassocattleya Brosh Wallace but I haven't found any information on this plant at all. It has really nice roots and many new leads forming and now theres two flower spikes, but ones looks like it was burned my pesticide when I sprayed it.

I have a Blc. Cherise Nishioka (Hawaiian Lightning x Lawless Freischutz (spelling??) and its putting out three new leads right now and has super great roots. It put out two immediately after I bought it last year. Maybe it will bloom this year. :D

Andddd I have a Laeilocattleya C.G. Roebling 'Sentinel' that I snagged for $11. I've been wanting this plant for a while and was super stoked when I saw one that had 6+ growths, new roots, and two knubs that look like they're going to be new leads.

I love a challenge and I have a tendency to pick things I can "nurse back to health" or "help" in all aspects of my life. Most notably riding horses. I love green, problematic horses most people don't believe in because I tend to be good at giving them the love and training they need to change everyone's mind. Provided they have good bloodlines of course. Thats another subject entirely though......../ramble:blushing:

I only buy plants on my want list too.

Unfortunately, every time I see a plant that I like, or sometimes even if it sounds interesting, it goes on the want list.

Then I buy it without regret.

I just purchased 2 bag babies today. I found a Blc. Waianae Leopard "Ching Hua" at Lowes. I got a C. Chocolate Drop Pot X San Damiano Cluster Red. I just saw the picture and loved the colors. For 6 each, I couldn't go wrong. The roots are ok, the leaves were big and flawless. I figured it wouldn't hurt.