What was your first orchid?

[Gongora]

Hi Guy’s and in particular Cheryl.
I honestly can’t remember the first orchid I ever owned more tan likely an Aussie native.
Cheryl I think you may be the victim of an incorrect name tag hunt . I am fairly sure that you are in fact looking for Blc Norman’s Bay ‘Lows’ this is an old Hybrid going back to the 1950’s and is the parent of some very fine progeny including Blc Crispin Rosales = Blc Norman’s Bay x Blc Bonanza (1959).I think you should still be able to find one these(At least in Australia) they are still obtainable. Anyway I hope this may be of some help.
Regards Craig

[justatypn]

Originally Posted by Gongora

I am fairly sure that you are in fact looking for Blc Norman’s Bay ‘Lows’

Oh my you are absolutely correct...senior moment, at the time of the post I had been in Carter and Holmes an seen Newman's and guess it was on my mind...Yes Norman's Bay is correct...thanks for the correction and the history, definitely have helped....

[Gin]

I was into house plants , Went to a discount store named White front in So. Ca. there was a rack of orchid plants in bags . I bought one Mem. Crispin Rosales took it home opened the bag and undid the instructions . it said your orchid should bloom in 4 or 5 years .
It outgrew the little pot so I repotted it in .... garden dirt .. it grew and bloomed 2 of the prettiest blooms .
I did get an old book from the library , read the thing and did not understand one word Gin

[Paul]

Originally Posted by Tony

My first was Brassia Datacosa 'Coos Bay' AM/AOS. It is long dead now, but I will acquire a new one soon.

Beautiful Brassia. I generally have little to no luck in growing let alone blooming memebers of the onc alliance. So I have to take the "easy to grow" comments with a grain of salt.

My first was a noid Phal. Had it for a number of years & eventually traded it away. Oddly enough, though phals used to be easy for me, now they are quite the opposite. I find them rather hard to keep happy & difficult to bloom.

[Vrug]

My first orchid was Paph. Rosy Dawn and a noid white Phal. I received them as a birthday gift from my father back in 1970. Both plants were dead within 6 months but by then I was hooked. I have been growing (and sometimes killing) orchids ever since.

~ V

[ceejae511]

My first was a phal, given to me by my Mother who just knew I would love orchids---she was right---her sister lives in Houston, TX and raises orchids and plumerias. This aunt gave me a plumeria in 1999 and I finally got it to bloom this summer! They are wonderful tropical plants as well, just not as interesting as orchids. I still have that first phal....but it hasn't bloomed in a long time. If the grow lights I recently got don't coax a bloom, I give up!

[eorchids]

My first orchid was a NOID phal ( I think it's still alive ). Afterward I gained a momentum with them, I started experimenting with other orchid genus.

[Ludisia]

This is my first orchid, noid phal. It was in bloom three times and now it's resting.

I bought it in the supermarket. I was waiting in the cash line and there were lots of big, beautiful flowers tempting customers. I didn't know what plants they were, but I bought one of them anyway

Next day I went to library to seek some books about orchids and that's all I need to get the virus

Now I choose miniatures instead of these big ones.

[Marco]

My first orchids was a no I'd phal, a white one, from a local nursey that my parents got me. I'll post picture when it spikes again

[ospylac]

Yup, another orchid addict introduced by a simple gift of a phal. It seems to be in flower or spike all year round, but I hav'nt been able to coax it into producing a keiki yet. Poor plant lived for years on my parents coffee table in near complete darkness and skipped a few years of flowering. Quite the survivor, it's labeled as Crystal Fiel, but i can't find a thing on the cultivar, so it's just another white phalaenopsis from TJ's!