Variegated Phalaenopsis at Trader Joe's - Orchid Board

jeremiah.chua · #1 11-13-2013, 12:28 AM

Found this beauty at a Trader Joe's next to my school today! I always take a quick look at their orchids and most don't really appeal to me but then I spotted a variegated one. I have never seen TJ carry a variegated orchid before so I HAD to get it. And for only 8.99? Can you really walk away from that?

Any IDs on this beautiful miniature phal? I think it might be Dtps Sogo Vivien 'Golden Vivien'
Although it's a NOID hybrid, so who knows?

Either way, I'm quite happy. I don't care much for the flowers, but the leaves are so pretty.

hanzy08 · #2 11-13-2013, 03:12 AM

Yea you can find all kinds of gem at trader joe's! That's why i have to keep myself from going there very often lol. Nice find!

MattWoelfsen · #3 11-13-2013, 05:49 AM

Great find, good shopping, Jeremiah. I wish we had a Trader Joe's. I have that plant with those flowers and it is a Dtps Sogo Vivien. Last night Seed Engei auctioned off a Daifuki for over $30.

l1sav · #4 11-13-2013, 08:04 AM

It looks like mine that I purchased recently, but its is not in flower:

Dtps Sogo Vivien Golden Vivien.

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Jayfar · #5 11-13-2013, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by jeremiah.chua

Any IDs on this beautiful miniature phal? I think it might be Dtps Sogo Vivien 'Golden Vivien'
Although it's a NOID hybrid, so who knows?

Either way, I'm quite happy. I don't care much for the flowers, but the leaves are so pretty.

I'd say almost definitely Sogo Vivien, but who knows on the cultivar. These are multiflorals, and, if they are like the non-variegated varieties, can put out branching spikes with dozens of simultaneous blooms when the get a little bigger. It seems there are a lot of these variegated SV's around as of a few years ago, but other than those and some amabilis I don't know of other variegated Phal hybrids or species (there may be one other, but I can't think of it now).

Mine from Big Leaf was in bloom when I got it a year and a half ago, but I haven't re-spiked it since. I've been keeping it too warm to spike probably. I repotted it again just a couple days ago and once it settles in again I may put it in a cool bright spot to try to get a spike.

Here's a pic of a non-variegated SV, one of the first Phals I killed a couple years back. Notice how chock full of buds it was.