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[WaterWitchin]

Originally Posted by Dan796

I bought 9 Better-Gro "orchids-in-a-bag" for $5.00 each at Lowes! Lucky you! You got some for $1.00!
Want to double your money? LOL

Forgot. I also got the "orchid in a bag" while I was there. Only one. LC Fire Dance x C. Caribbean-Orange.
Very small, not much good root, now planted in LECA the S/H way. Recovering nicely. Not much to take a picture of yet. $2.50

The only others were either same cross, or not a color I wanted. No thanks on the offer to double my money.

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Originally Posted by james mickelso

Ooooooooo!!!! So now you have some nice inexpensive orchids to learn from. Nice catts. Phals are nice too. Sphagnum moss media? Somewhere on the board I have a small quick photo montage that shows you how to repot phals without damaging them. I'm going to do another one soon along with one on catts. You can repot now if they are kept inside where it is warmer than 60*f and have some decent light. We're here to help!!! (rubs his hands gleefully). Oh yeah. We need more pictures of your haul. Leaves, rizomes, flower buds, media...... Oh I can't wait to get started!!! (continues to rub his hands gleefully).

Nah, I already did my learning lessons on expensive ones in the 2008-2009 era.

Phals from Lowes are in sphagnum. Bag O' Orchid cat/LC cross was in weird dirt/bark mix, with mostly dead roots. The three C. from the other place are in a bark mix that's "ok," just not my choice of growing method.

The phals I won't do anything with until they finish blooming, as they'll go into LECA. I want the bang for my buck.

And I was the dishwasher installer, assisting my elder daughter (it was a Xmas present). She would have had a royal hissy fit if I'd stopped to play orchids. Ya'll were trying to corrupt me. I'm already corrupt enough

The three larger Catts I am leaving alone for now, as they all have buds in sheath, just starting. If I dig them out and start cutting off stuff to put in LECA/S-H, I will lost them. If the buds don't make it, I'll replant then.