I figured I would call Monday and talk to them to about this little orchid. The other two that I got from them were in good shape. So I hope that this is kinda of a fluke. What did they tell you Astrid when you confronted them about your odontonia?? Where the easy to deal or was it a problem?


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Alright I contacted them today and basically he told me that the were back bulb clones and it is normal for them to drop the back bulb because of the stress of shipment. Does this sound reasonable?? It sounds about right to me but I'm a newbie and can be lead astray pretty easily. When questioned further he said that if more leaves yellow or the orchid doesn't start to bounce back fairly quickly to contact them again and they'll make it right with me.


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During the summer months and my Oncidiums are in my growcamp outdoors, I try to water them as often as I can. In between, I also spray mist the leaves. Sometimes I even sit them in water for a day or two. My location is really bone dry so my orchids loves this treatment, particularly Oncidiums which seem to be real water hogs, hard to overwater for my location.

To me, your plant does not look dying yet, just acclimating to your location and to your watering regimen. I used to get those accordion leaves and wrinkly bulbs too, really frustrating, then later an accidentally leaving one oncidium standing in water for about 3 days showed me just how thirsty it was, so I learned to adjust my watering especially during summer months.

When I say it is hot here in my area, our temps hover in the 95F and higher range to triple digits with humidity at 25 - 35%, so that is really making it way too hot and dry for my orchids. I do not know what temps and humidity you have there. It really helps to have an indoor/outdoor sensor too to track your temps and humidity levels.

Well I was told that from a different vendor on ebay - these backbulbs can take a long time to recover, blahblah. It's true, and sometimes they do recover, but sometimes they are really too far gone.

What matters in this situation is that they are willing to make it right with you! That puts a big +1 for them in my book.

I never contacted Larrys about this issue, and that is because I was still new-ish, didn't think their was a real issue because "Hey! It bloomed!" and didn't realize that the plant was beyond help until months after I got it.

The ebay vendor I mentioned sold me a "mature division 3 psychopsis backbulbs" for $12, but the plant arrived shriveled half to death and with zero viable roots. It lost 2/3 bulbs and slowly poked a few roots out, but eventually I gave up on it. She shipped me a replacement with a few viable roots and not quite as shriveled, and that plant is now thriving for me.

Take this as a note of caution from the vendor. They seem to have a habit of selling a bad plant here and there BUT they will make it right with you.
That's okay, and you can do with that information what you will. For me, this would mean I would reserve expensive plant purchases for more reputable vendors, but might take a gamble with this vendor every now and then.

Eventually, you will develop a sense for which plants can recover and which will not make it if you keep up with the hobby.

We are pretty close to you in temps and humidity. I like that we run a swamp cooler because it raised the humidity in the house from 25% to 55%.I have thought about setting up a shady spot for these guys outside but I'm scared that they'll get to cold we are still cooling off to the low 50s to the high 40s. Heck I've seen snow here on the last day of June lol


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I agree with you astrid.


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