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Old 12-02-2013, 10:03 AM
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I understand that. But there truly is nothing here for me to pick from. So I shop online and tryto avoid spikes.
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Uh, Big Leaf Orchids is located in Texas. Obviously Peter specializes in Phals, but they aren't your usual run of the mill buy it at any grocery store Phal. I live in Oregon and buy online from him frequently. He has awesome plants, and many hard to find or unique species. He used to sell Paphs too, but not sure if he still has them.
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Old 12-02-2013, 06:31 PM
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I am near Texas, in New Mexico in a po-dunk town of about 30K people. I thought that Clown Alley Orchid is there, and also there seem to be some orchid societies. To get to the nearest Orchid society here I have to drive 3 hours or more each way too. (Albuquerque). Austin seems way too far. I kind of have to rely on online sales too. Not even a trader joes near here-- We got a Lowes and an Albertsons grocery store that have orchids. Lowes has baggy Catelyas and some Miltonias once a year that I will check out next year. Ha ha, but I will be going to Nebraska in a few months, will be driving back through Kansas City when it is still cool, and will bring enough cash to get a few Oncidiums if I find them, even if it is at the Trader Joes. Oh the joys of living out in the sticks, that's all I can say!!!

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Old 12-02-2013, 07:30 PM
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OKAY podunk... I am from a town of 402...I got you beat!
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It depends on what orchids were for sale and who the actual grower was. For a good, mature cattleya in bloom/bud from a reliable grower, $30 is a pretty good price. If the orchids are from an iffy source and nothing special, then you are right that this is too much. I do understand the lure of cheap orchids but I would need to wonder how they can be sold so cheaply....
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Old 12-04-2013, 12:34 PM
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OKAY podunk... I am from a town of 402...I got you beat!
Sorry optimist but I was just thinking the same thing po-dunk 30 K?????? I'm like Kindra came from a ranch that the town was a post office, closest towns where 100 to maybe 200 people. I now live outside of a town with around 4000 people but not to far from where I grew up.
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I guess it depends how large an area the 30k people are on, really...it could be a town the size of a county.

Nothing better than orchid clubs, or talking about them with people from work. For example a woman I used to work with gave me a mystery plant that looked like an odontoglossum in winter 2010-11 in Massachusetts and it went from a measly 1 backbulb 1 keiki plant to a vigorous plant with 10 pseudobulbs and 3 leads with multiple double spikes. it's insane how many spikes the thing has, I can't wait for them to finally open.
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Old 12-05-2013, 12:27 AM
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@quiltergal I go for the really odd and different looking ones. And paphs hate me. I have decided. And I am not a fan of phals EVER I have seen big oak? B4 they really dont have anything that makes me go whoa I gotta have it.
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Old 12-05-2013, 12:50 AM
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Think yourselves lucky you are in the states, standard pricing here for a basic white NOID Phal is around $30, you'd basically never see anything as 'exotic' as a twinkles in a nursery unless it was one of the very few and far between orchid nurseries.
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Old 12-05-2013, 01:42 AM
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$30 for oncidium twinkle is too much. I mean even in NYC where the rent is really high(er than anywhere else in the US I think), oncidium twinkle is cheaper than that. I'm talking about the cheapest place in town, not a regular florist, which of course charge more to make margins. Ex) paphiopedilum used to be $25-35 last year, now there are up to $45 (almost always, they are not even open, and you know how most of them hybrids are garbage basically, no more shopping for me for that price. lol ), and then the price goes up to a little over $100. even if it has no tag (which they do not care) and the flower quality is much less than the average. horrible!!!

The sales at NY Botanical Garden Orchid Show in the spring is crazy because I dont' think I have seen anything at $30. The cheapest one I saw was a small miniature orchid (phal), ok, it was like $30 or 28, but that is insane!
The rest are all somewhere between $49 and $100. Average being $70 something. paphs, miltoniopsis, dendrobiums,,, It is just ridiculous. plants are coming in from all over the place and the season being cold at the time, dendrobium phal types are usually severely damaged. I learned the hard way.
The qualiy is just so so. Some are good, some are bad, and most are just ok, but not worth the money they charge.

I think almost every plant they sell come with tag though. At least the ones I bought and the ones I looked at, which is almost everything in the store, had white or yellow tag showing the parentage, cross name, and often the name of the nursery it came from.

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I also mostly order online as well. In the Netherlands there are several growers, all are decently priced; 10-20€ a plant for the most part. But the only one I can easily access by public transport (no use for a car here, bicycle is more than sufficient to do mostly everything) just really really sucks. So I order online, mostly from an awesome grower in the south of the country, and a lot from Germany and Italy.
I should totally move over there!
Germany sounds like an Orchid mecca in Europe?
Thank goodness that's where I'm moving to. Yay!!! but not anytime soon.

but so far, I'm alright here. Good thing that I have done my shopping diligently and gathered up quite a few plants.
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