Group order for terrestrial orchids.

[rosemadder]

Looking over the price list on these, the plants are around 4 years old or so... I keep wondering, just what is it that the grower is doing, that everyone else is having such a hard time with?? What's causing such high mortality rates?

Are these plants shipped as bare tubers and there's a ton of trial and error happening because nobody's sure what substrate to put them in? Or the watering is all wrong?

Are they coming from a nursery where they're grown in Germany proper, or actually from Australia and needing to make some kind of weird seasonal shift? Or... what?

Or are they really just that sensitive and shipping or repotting is enough to screw them over?

Just wondering what it is about these that makes them such a big challenge. I guess if we knew, we'd be able to fix it and they wouldn't be, or something...