Noobs First Large Orchid Haul!

[Optimist]

my Lowes finally got some intergenerics and others. I'm going to apply to work there, I swear. I got a seriously giant Cattleya, (Pink Empress), with a huge bud. I measured it at 14 inches from the top of the 6 inch pot, a Huge Bellaria Tahoma Glacier in a 6 inch pot (19 inch leaves), over potted, with P-bulbs the size of my palm, and a No-ID Cymbidium. The theme color was pink I guess. I do not believe the size and health of these plants!

The vendor is Gublers Orchids of Landers, California. Any word on them, good or bad? The plants are amazing. Tahoma glacier was packed a bit randomly, and if I had not known how to repot it would have been lost (slight pleasing scent by the way). And I had no Idea how big a Cattelaya could get. I loved them before but now I am smitten.

I am raising my standards. No discount orchids. No more on line buying of plants I have not seen.

[GluttonousSolarWrasse]

I am amazed that you can get stuff like that at a lowes. All the ones near me only have the dyed blue phalaenopsis (seriously). Good luck with your new plants!

[Optimist]

Originally Posted by GluttonousSolarWrasse

I am amazed that you can get stuff like that at a lowes. All the ones near me only have the dyed blue phalaenopsis (seriously). Good luck with your new plants!

Thanks. This is theonly timein a year of living here that I have seen this either. I wonder if it was a going out of business thing. The Catts were huge! I spent what I dared spend. Id love to go back but reason prevails! Bummer.

[Ordphien]

Gublers is good. We get slews of plants in from them.
Nice haul!

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[FSUOrchids]

I've found that it's pretty random what kinds of orchids you will find at a Lowe's.

Most of the ones I've been in here in FL have nothing special, but I know a couple that occasionally get something beyond Phals/Dens/Onc hybrids.

[james mickelso]

Depends on what the buyer for that store thinks they can sell. It's up to the store manager and buyer according to the HD/Lowes here. Gublers has been growing orchids for three generations now. They are up in the high desert east of San Bernardino, Ca. I am going to take a tour soon and I will send you all some pics of their operation. The lady I talked with last year about one of their older hybrids was very pleasant.

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Another thing about orchids you get at "wherever", Don't be surprised by the orchids getting smaller than when you brought them home. Orchids grown commercially are raised in near optimal conditions. Warm, Humid, Very good light, fertilized constantly, and the stock they come from is hybrided to produce the maximum plant in the least amount of time. It is difficult for us home growers to duplicate the conditions under which these plants were grown unless you have a nice greenhouse. So don't feel cheated when the next growth you get isn't what you expected.

[Optimist]

Good point, James. I am not sure how tall bellara usually gets. I know that standard catts and cimbidiums can naturally get very large even in a home environment.

I was mainly pleased that the plants looked healthy and not in need of Imediate first aid, like most of the plants I have gotten from other vendors.

[orion141]

Nice purchase. You are lucky, at the lowes/HD's here in tampa I am lucky if I find anything besides a phal. Enjoy your new orchids!

[Subrosa]

Nice haul! My Brassavola nodosa, Dendrobium aggregatum, and Encyclia cordigera and ceratistes are all Lowe's finds.

[tucker85]

Pink Empress is a beautiful cattleya. Two cultivars have won AM/AOS awards. It has a very pretty fragrance in the morning also.