Needed to get a Phal...but the buds...

[Lilac]

Just had to have one.
Went to Home Depot and it looked like a stampede had passed through! OMG! Those poor orchids! All broken pots shattered!

So at the clearance rack I found the usual motley assortment of waterlogged Phals, chose 2 and an Oncidium, no further name, hoping it's a fragrant Golden Urchin,but I'll take whatever comes. Also my daughter spotted 2 teeny little 2 inchers called 'Equitant Orchids' Got those also.

Then we went to Sam's but no orchids. Then at the checkout line, lo and behold, there, on a for sale table was a lonely Phal, being used as decor. Walked up to it and it was dry as a bone! Good sized buds but they seemed to have not opened because of the neglect. This was it! This was my Phal! Paid full price and baby-ed it all the way home .

Now it's resting comfortably in new medium, new box, (roots weren't too, too bad) in my 'Orchid Intensive Care Unit'

Ya think at least, maybe a couple of the buds will/may still open? Or is this what is called 'bud blast'?

Thanks guys!

[Daethen]

Kind of hard to tell from the pic, but they seem to look ok. If they start to turn an orangey/yellow all the way back to the spike then you will probably lose them.

[Atzau]

wish we had equitant oncidiums in our HD...they usually only have phals...and rarely on clearance.

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[MattWoelfsen]

Ironic you got an Equitant orchid. They are endemic to your part of the world. They are also known as Tolumnia. I saw these orchids growing outside in a croton hedge in old San Juan. The plants were growing on the branches of the croton and their flower stalks with their flowers on the end where above the hedge. I think they grow like that to attract passing insects.

[Lilac]

Daezen, I fed it today and the larger bud is trying to open. It seems to be a burgundy center with greenish white petals striated with burgundy. I'm hoping to get a better view tomorrow, but it seems to be responding favorably!

Atzau, they are the cutest,I'm leaning towards mounting the two little clay pots on a slab of tree fern,then finding another one to make three pots on the slab.

Matt, I had not seen them before. But I wish I could get my hands on at least a couple more. I have plans! I