Hahahaha Ain't that the truth!!!!!! It's not easy!!!! The bigleaf plant was 28 dollars but the 15 dollar shipping took it up to 43 and the eBay plant was 34 and 12 dollar shipping to that came to 46 so it was a 89 dollar grand total! Dang it's a good thing I get paid weekly haha!!!! I be posting pics a lot soon with the two bastianii and I just got a equestris a pulchra and a luddemanniana as well! I'm replacing my phal collection piece by piece
Ok both plants came and tomorrow I will be taking pics to share with you the big leaf orchids plant has better flowers but the eBay plant is BEAST when I say beast I mean BEAST!!
I know of some growers in NE Ohio, who sold me a very nice bastianii. They were going to sell it for $20 at the West Shore Show, but I snagged it first, and for less. It has adapted nicely to my terrarium culture, with a very nice darker green marking, following the perimeter of each leaf. It is not in spike though. If you are interested I can ask if they still have more. They will ship and use paypall. Message me if you would like me to check into it.