cheapest non-free orchid

[Call_Me_Bob]

i know there was a thread like this going around not to long ago. and i tried to search for it and find it, but i cant. so im making a new one

please share about the cheapest non-free chids youve gotten.




i just got a mini phal for $0.50!!!! it was out of bloom and missing its cache pot. but for that reason, it still had okay roots, because it wasnt sitting in water! it used to have a name, but not any more. when they came in, they all had names. i only remember one of the names that was there- p. timothy christopher. once it blooms, if its white, i can be sure that what it is. as there were no other white mini phals, besides timothy christopher

[RosieC]

50p... I got two at that price. Both out of flower and bought only with the intention of experimenting on for my first S/H tests. They've turned out to be real monster vigourous phals and are both in flower at the momment. They have grown like crazy and are pretty massive plants

[Discus]

ZAR 30 for an Epidendrum (Neolehmannia) porpax on special. Not spectacularly cheap compared to the posters above! At current market rates, that's about US $4.24.

[camille1585]

I can also find dirt cheap noids like that (since I live in an mega orchid producing country). But for named plants and especially species I've gotten some beatiful and nice sized plants for as little as 3€.

Every year in October the national dutch orchid society organizes a show in which the vendors are primarily hobbists who dabble in selling orchids. The plants are healthy, usually blooming size and really cheap. I got my Podangis dactyloceras for 3€, my Aerangis rhodostica for 4€ for example. At that show I usually come back with 6-8 orchids, and spend less than 40€ total.

[RosieC]

It's a good distinction Camille, the difference between a supermarket NoID they are just trying to offload, and a decent named plant.

My cheepest named orchid is probably my restrepias at about £8 each. They are tiny plants anyway, and £8 got me blooming size (as proved by the fact both have flowered within the year).

I think I also paid £8 for my Leptotes unicolour, another tiny plant (by the way Camille I'm thinking that might be growing a bit early to be sure though).

[Daethen]

I have purchased some named seedlings for around $1 each. I have Timothy Christopher but paid $10 for it.

[Call_Me_Bob]

like i said, ill have to wait for it to bloom. but if its white, ill know what it is. i got it at a supermarket, so it wasnt a super healthy plant and stuff

i think the next cheapest for a "real" chid was like 5.58 or something. but i had to buy 12. they were for Blooming sized catts in 4" pots. it was that holiday package from carmela's super pleased with it by the way

[b amateur]

The best deals I've found were at the monthly auctions at the end of our O.S. meetings.Recent deals include Encyclia autorubens[10 p'bulb]$4,Enc. michoacana[7 p'bulb,in bud]$7,and Dendrobium "Doreen"[previously bloomed]$1.Brad

[Call_Me_Bob]

good prices!

[prc11]

Once at the clearance rack and Lowe's I got A brassavola nadosa and a slipper orchid (both in good condition) for $2 each.