Disposable Phals

[priz_m]

Originally Posted by kiki-do

Hollylee, please explain the avatar...it's too cute! What is the story behind the picture?

Thowing out phals is so awful!
I'm too far away or I would be parked on their doorstep waiting for the throw-a-ways. What a sad thing. I may have nightmares tonight.
You should open up an orchid orphanage....poor little things.

yes Really Holly! I would totally give an orphan NoId phal a good home here in sunny CA...

please tell us about your cat's helmet

[hollylee]

WEll i was sending my cat out into battle, when i decided to..


Acutally I just google searched cat avatar and took this one when i saw it.

Sorry to disappoint..

[Paul]

That pic (the avatar) has circulated on the net for a while now. Supposedly the guy had too much free time, and too much alcohol in his system. The helmut is a lime and his cat unbelievable patient. If the cat had later murdered him in his sleep, there's not a jury that would have convicted the poor feline.

[Gin]

I would take them even if I was not going to keep them to give to friends that showed an interest in Orchids .. Good bait

[RosieC]

Originally Posted by hollylee

A friend of mine lives at a hotel in Chicago. They put Phals at the checkin desk and in all of the rooms and bathrooms. As soon as the blooms drop they are taken away. I asked what they did with them, and they.. pitch em... HUGE PHALS! Its tragic. Anyway, they told me I could come anytime and pick up "dead" ones to take home.

For people who like phals, check out hotels in your area and see if they regularly pitch em once they drop the blooms. You could have an endless supply!

I picked up 3 today, one even has a bud that has yet to open.

It makes me think someone should set up a business RENTING flowering Phals to hotels. When they stop flowering you switch them out for others which are in flower. The hotel gets the old ones back when they are back in flower again. It's probably cheeper for the hotels to just keep buying new ones though.

[Des]

Some of the game lodges here in SA buy Cymbidiums in flower for their rooms and then toss them into the garbage when they have finished flowering . They claim it works out a lot cheaper than buying cut flowers !! But what an awful WASTE!!!!

[quiltergal]

Rosie, here in the US there are a few businesses that do that. But you're right it's cheaper to toss them and buy new ones. Hotels and big box stores are keeping the mega conglomerates flooding the market with cheap NOIDS in business.

[Psyched]

How sad.... my phals grows really really slow to adulthood. Wish I could bring some to backyard but it would be kind of impossible since I no longer live around Chicago, across the Pacific to be precise.

[Alegra26]

Originally Posted by RosieC

It makes me think someone should set up a business RENTING flowering Phals to hotels. When they stop flowering you switch them out for others which are in flower. The hotel gets the old ones back when they are back in flower again. It's probably cheeper for the hotels to just keep buying new ones though.

ITA thats a great idea..i cant believe they are throwing away plants, living creatures..so sad

maybe you can resell the rescues?