My Mother-in-Laws secret to ever-blooming Phals

[Des]

These plants that are sold by supermarkets , are I believe grown under ideal conditions for maximum growth . The "factories" growing these plants have it down to a fine art they even know how long the flowers will last in your lounge and plan their deliveries to retail outlets accordingly
Personally I would not have one of these plants in my collection not because it has no name , but because trying to acclimatize the plant might take more time than it is worth

[RosieC]

Originally Posted by gehentogo

Thanks for reminding me, RosieC, I haven't posted a photo of that Paph yet. Here it is, and a link to the original post

Oh, that's gorgeous. . Thanks for posting the pics.

[Louise]

Over here you can find quite cheap orchids in big supermarkets for instance, around 8 euros (5$ )or even less... there are phals but many others, oncidiums, odontos etc...Of course i don't like the idea of throwing them after they flourished , so i try to keep them whenever i myself buy one. sometimes it's easy and they have new bloom quite soon and sometimes it seems it takes them ages to adapt ...I can't say that i like this mass culture thing but maybe buying some of those orchids is a way for some people to get acquainted and fall in love with orchids and buy more and species...

[dsim]

Originally Posted by RosieC

That seems the same in the UK (although I've not seen them quite as cheep). You can buy cheep orchids all over the place in all sorts of stores, but I have never seen one with a proper name tag. Phals tend to just be labled as 'phalanopsis one stem' or phalanopsis two stem', some others have a similar standard of labelling (for example my summer purchase of a 'dendrobium one stem') but some are even worse, just called 'Orchidee'.

well, at least it is not tagged as "plant"

[RosieC]

Originally Posted by dsim

well, at least it is not tagged as "plant"

Yeah, at least they are better than that.