Catch of the day! :)

[NYCorchidman]

I stopped by the Whole Foods to pick up some bread and saw that a new batch of phals just came in.

I was the first person to jump on them. How lucky!
I picked one out and took it to the cashier's desk.
I was charged 9.99 instead of 19.99 as it was supposed to be.
well, I did not protest.

It has lots of branching going on and I just hope it will last as I have bought this same phal variety a few times before and they always went bud blasting on me. no idea why.

Well, I at least got a nice German made red decorative pot that porbably costs $8 or $9, and I really like it!

[RosieC]

Really lovely!

I picked up a very similar looking NoID for my office a few weeks back. Not as many as yours though.

[hanzy08]

Originally Posted by NYCorchidman

I stopped by the Whole Foods to pick up some bread and saw that a new batch of phals just came in.

I was the first person to jump on them. How lucky!
I picked one out and took it to the cashier's desk.
I was charged 9.99 instead of 19.99 as it was supposed to be.
well, I did not protest.

It has lots of branching going on and I just hope it will last as I have bought this same phal variety a few times before and they always went bud blasting on me. no idea why.

Well, I at least got a nice German made red decorative pot that porbably costs $8 or $9, and I really like it!

Wow! Same thing happened to me out of all the phals i have, this variety had the most bud blast and the flowers didn't last as long. I believe this is a golden beauty. Maybe they are a very sensitive variety or prone to bud blasts?

[NYCorchidman]

This is Sin Yuan "Golden Beauty" I believe.

I have another Golden Beauty but a different cultivar "Golden Rocket" which has a much brighter canary (or lemon) yellow.
That one also didn't last that long but it at least branched out almost immediately after the blasting and bore 5 flowers, which lasted for a long time.
That one is now pushing two new leaves. I kept that one because I loved the vibrant color so much and it is not common at all. well, at least not common at super markets here lol

Golden Diva, should I say? lol

[hanzy08]

LOL yea i think it should be named as golden diva!

[cutie_monster]

i just love your super market treasure! it feels so good to find those diamonds in the rough. very beautiful

[RosieC]

Originally Posted by NYCorchidman

This is Sin Yuan "Golden Beauty" I believe.

The name should not have quotes Sin Yuan Golden Beauty is the whole grex name. Golden Beauty is not a cultivar name. (I made that mistake when I first had one).

I thought the same that it looks very like that. I have one tagged that at home and comparing even fine detail of the photos to my NoID in the office they look the same.

However I'm not tagging my NoID as that, because it might not be. In the mass market there could be other things that just look the same

[SJF]

Originally Posted by NYCorchidman

I stopped by the Whole Foods to pick up some bread and saw that a new batch of phals just came in.

I was the first person to jump on them. How lucky!
I picked one out and took it to the cashier's desk.
I was charged 9.99 instead of 19.99 as it was supposed to be.
well, I did not protest.

It has lots of branching going on and I just hope it will last as I have bought this same phal variety a few times before and they always went bud blasting on me. no idea why.

Well, I at least got a nice German made red decorative pot that porbably costs $8 or $9, and I really like it!

Love your title and catch . My WF runs $9.99 specials on phals sometimes. It may have been one of those days. They get their phals from Virginia. You probably have the same "local" supplier as they term it. If you look at their website it says they clone from clean Dutch varieties. They mention not using Tawaiian varieties in order to provide the healthiest, disease free plants.

[NYCorchidman]

Originally Posted by cutie_monster

i just love your super market treasure! it feels so good to find those diamonds in the rough. very beautiful

So true!

Almost all of them look bruised or virused all too often.

---------- Post added at 09:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:17 PM ----------

Originally Posted by RosieC

The name should not have quotes Sin Yuan Golden Beauty is the whole grex name. Golden Beauty is not a cultivar name. (I made that mistake when I first had one).

I thought the same that it looks very like that. I have one tagged that at home and comparing even fine detail of the photos to my NoID in the office they look the same.

However I'm not tagging my NoID as that, because it might not be. In the mass market there could be other things that just look the same

Thanks for the clarification!

As far as I understand, these are all the same plants mericloned and circulate the market for the moment.

---------- Post added at 09:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:19 PM ----------

Originally Posted by SJF

Love your title and catch . My WF runs $9.99 specials on phals sometimes. It may have been one of those days. They get their phals from Virginia. You probably have the same "local" supplier as they term it. If you look at their website it says they clone from clean Dutch varieties. They mention not using Tawaiian varieties in order to provide the healthiest, disease free plants.

They now caryy "mini" phals for that price but the bigger ones are alway 19.99.

I wish they had specials here too.
well, I just got my accidental special due to system error.

I couldn't find any info regarding where WF get their phals from.

By the way, it is not where the plants come from that matters.
Taiwan got bad names from accidents years back. Most of them, if not all, are not any worse than anybody elses in the world. but Taiwan being the biggest phal producer in the world, anything happens there, then the news just keep running around many mouths.
They do strict quality controls.

It is usually once the small seedlings or flasks make it to US farms that they start to get infected due to handling and improper or careless management of plants.

Also, everytime I look at how phals are shipped out of the deliver truck or how some stores display them for sale, it just shocks me. How tightly they sit next to one another. after all, stores want to sell as many as possible but even then, sometimes it makes it almost impossible to take one out and have a closer look without break a few buds or leaves because they are all tangled up. very annoying.

I wonder how many phals that had been lucky to stay virus free get infected while being shipped or while being displayed at stores.

all the more frustrating!

This is one reason I'm thinking of buying phals just for flowers and toss.
They are cheap and always lots of different varieties are available. why worry or suffer any risk to infect other not so common orchids in the collection?

just my thoughts.

then again, I would test any "nice" ones before making decisions of tossing out. just in case.