Well, thank you thank you for the warm welcomes!!! I just got my firstest ever Phals this past week! There's a tragic story with the first one...here goes...
*sigh*
I'm actually kind of embarrassed about this story...I can be such a doormat.
I bought my first orchid last week. I went in to see my florist friend at his work (grocery store floral shop) and saw a beautiful yellow and pink Phal (the only one that wasn't pink or white) and fell in love with it. Their entire shipment had come in with chilling injury so they were marked down about 50%. I resisted at first, but then a few days later he called to tell me "my" orchid was still there, so I decided it was fate and drove up there. I never did actually examine the entire plant, just paid and left. My friend mentioned I would want to pick up some orchid food, but they were out so I stopped at a local orchid shop nearby to pick some up and get some advice. We got to talking and I decided to run out to the car to get it and when I brought it in, the owners looked at it and started fretting over what they thought was fungus (in addition to the cold damage). Well, to make a long story short, the gal convinced me to let them re-pot it and sent it back with her employee. She told me to go back with her if I wanted to watch and the owners left for lunch. At one point, the front door opened and she turned her head to look and broke the flower stalk off.
I really didn't know what to say or do! It was a genuine accident and so I gave her the benefit of the doubt, figuring she would offer to do something for me, like not charge me for the pot. Nope, she just apologized and otherwise blew it off. I realize it probably wasn't her place to make that kind of call, but if it had been me in her shoes I would have at least referred the customer to the owner or just taken care of it and worried about covering my butt with the boss some other way.
In retrospect, if I would have pulled my head out of my butt for two seconds I could have avoided the whole fiasco. I got all nervous and lost all my confidence, in part because I've convinced myself to be scared of growing orchids (and I'm a doormat).
*sad*
In addition, the same friend brought me another one (of the cold damaged ones) that had been marked down to like $4. So we'll see...I'll post pictures once I can get some decent ones to turn out on my ancient digital camera.
Thanks again you guys!!! Off to do some homework!!!
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Hello! I'm ME!!!
Janelle, and 
WELCOME Janelle 
She's gone!!
and things will go better.
Phals are pretty tough and may surprise you. 
and don't give up.
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