Brand new collector of one Phalaenopsis & one Unknown

[pastor.michell]

Originally Posted by ronaldhanko

The loss of flowers is often due to a sudden change in environment and not to poor growing on your part. Your plant looks very healthy. As to a name that is a near impossibility because of the thousands of hybrids and the uncertainty, even if you find something that looks like it, that they are actually the same. There's a huge variation within crosses and thousands of crosses. The only way to be sure of the name is to get it from the grower and with box store orchids that is almost impossible.

That's a relief! I purchased both at a "flower shop" inside a grocery store in Montana and brought them home to Southern Wyoming. So their environment was drastically changed! It's great to hear the Oncidium is looking healthy. I was afraid I was killing it. I was so excited to finally find orchids because it is hard to find them in my small town. I have been shopping around online for orchids. Do you have any suggestions of reliable growers of healthy chids?

[RosieC]

Hi Michell and welcome to Orchid Board.

Your orchids looks gorgeous. I agree fully with Ron that it is Oncidium Alliance and probably has a lot of the Odontoglossum genus in the cross somewhere.

I have lots of orchids without names as do many people here. We call then NoIDs and I like to give mine names I make up myself (just so they don't feel left out from those which have names )

The main thing is to know enough about what it is to know how to care for it. There are a couple of culture sheets here which are relevant to this one.
AOS | Odontoglossum
AOS | Oncidium