Cattleya tenebrosa var aurea from marblekg

[JScott]

I recently bought a selfing of Cattleya tenebrosa 'Walter Grange', you know, the really nice yellow one, from Waldor. I love Waldor.I only recently started ordering from there, but I highly recommend. In fact, the plant was listed as sold out, but he said that he had kept aside several for his personal collection, and he sold me one of those.

Anyway, shortly after that I saw a listing for a tenebrosa aurea on eBay. It looked to be about the same size as the one I got for 35 dollars, but it was 100 dollars and it was sold by marblekg.

Just for the sake of curiosity, just to see what he would say, I sent him a message telling him that I have bought several plants from him, and not one turned out to be the right plant. I asked him for such an expensive plant, how was he going to guarantee that this was in face tenebrosa aurea. What would we do if it bloomed out and it wasn't yellow? What would we do if it bloomed out and wasn't a tenebrosa at all? How could he guarantee me that I was getting what I ordered if I spent so much?

Well, that was several days ago, and he didn't respond, which I guess in itself is a response of sorts. Anyway, just a fun experiment I tried that I thought might interest some of the others. If you don't know marblek on eBay, his plants are ridiculously overpriced, and never bloom out to be the plant he claims he sold you. It's like he takes any random plant, puts a label on it that he thinks will sell, and just sends whatever he has when you order, and then when you contact him about it, he tells you to bugger off. So stay away from him if you don't already know.