$2.00 flower from lowes

[cgregory]

I got this because it was real small and I wanted to try a mini well now that it bloomed I dont know what it is but I'm realy happy with it and its about 3plants in one pot so i will mount one and see how that works

[OCRC_Dir_China]

In mainland China and Taiwan; it is referred to and sold under, Phal. Brother Sara Gold ‘F623’ (Phal. Sara Lee x Phal. Taipei Gold) it is very common in all flower markets.

[Zoi2]

It's very pretty.
Be careful when you repot, it may be one plant and two basil keikies.
Joann

[RosieC]

Really pretty!

It doesn't look quite like Brother Sarah Gold to me, the flowers are closer to a NoID that I have, which has smaller flowers than Brother Sarah Gold. Sarah gold has quite thick texture almost waxy substance flowers. It also has slightly more rounded petal shape than this. From what I've seen of it it's not a small Phal either.

I have a mini Phal with flowers similar to yours, but it's a NoID and even if it and it looked identical we couldn't be sure. However you mention 3 plants in the pot, but it's possibly they are all joined, are basil keikis of the first. My NoID mini is very prone to basil keiki, mine has about 6 crowns now.

This is mine, not quite the same, but could possibly have similar parantage (or maybe not)

[topiarybud]

It looks more like P. Sogo Gotris 'Sogo F1307'. You can almost confirm it if Sogo Vivien was on the same selling rack.
From the link you can see the normal commodity looks like, 2 spikes with many flowers. Yours rebloomed from an old spike, that might be why the price is so cheap. I can expect that you will have a lot of flowers next year.

Originally Posted by OCRC_Dir_China

In mainland China and Taiwan; it is referred to and sold under, Phal. Brother Sara Gold ‘F623’ (Phal. Sara Lee x Phal. Taipei Gold) it is very common in all flower markets.

Hi Dir., I'm not impressed by Phal. Brother Sara Gold. Maybe it's not trendy anymore in Taiwan. For mini phals, Sogo Vivien, Sogo Gotris and Red Dragon(or similar red flowers) are more common in flower markets.

[RosieC]

I agree it could be something similar to Sogo Gotris. It does look quite similar to that.

[OCRC_Dir_China]

Like I said; it is common in China to see it traded as Phal. Brother Sara Gold ‘F623’ (Phal. Sara Lee x Phal. Taipei Gold) also seen in a mini.
Now in China many orchids can have up to a dozen trade names; don’t believe it, try some research.
And like I said; it is very common in all flower markets in China and yes I did see it at many of the flower markets in Taiwan flower markets.
I am into my eight year in China and I can tell you that many Asian orchid producers only see money, and have almost no knowledge of orchids, they just have the funding and others do their work; and profit is the only reason they are in the business.
Now as for Taiwan; I was not impressed at all; with the orchid labs that I visited, making clones of clones with viruses parents knowingly and selling them, unfortunately this practice has also starting to appearing in mainland China.
I have been approached dozens of times by certain parties asking my wife, if I would work with them and propagate orchids for commercial purposes/profit. But they want the product from seed/tissue to a blooming size plant in under a year, now does this sound rational or conceivable?
Sorry I don’t have much time to put toward this topic, I am preparing my long awaited R&R trip to go see my grandchildren in NC. I have to renew my visa because it’s due again and in need of extra pages, travel to get my airline tickets, shopping for gifs, and leaving instructions for the plant care, spend some time with the wife and our Chihuahua. For the next month or so I will be off OB, I can only give the OCRC current work and our partnership any time and of course Chili dogs, not available in Northeast China.