Bloomify Tech on Etsy (they're also on Ebay and elsewhere)

[Fishkeeper]

I tripped over this seller while poking around, and thought, what the hell, their prices are good and the plants look promising. I ordered a Haraella retrocalla, Bulbo. electrinium var Calvum, and a 'dome terrarium' (some sort of flask) D. spatulata sundew.

Overall, I'm happy. Both orchids were... sorta mounted? They were in some moss that had been tied onto 3" squares of plank with fishing line. Neither had attached to the mount. It looks like they aren't using tree fern any more, even though the picture for the Haraella shows tree fern.
The plants were packed well, and came with basic, pretty generic care instructions. To be fair, these are pretty generic micro-minis, as far as I can tell.

I cut the fishing line and took them off the mounts, and have been keeping them both kinda set on/in the moss in a little temporary holding box. These photos were taken to inspect the roots and show them to a friend of mine, and were done by just picking the orchids up and letting the moss fall off.


That looks about blooming size to me, as these go. Seems healthy. Nice little plant, looks like the picture, though I ordered one without a flower spike because it was cheaper. These aren't exactly one of those orchids you have to wait an eternity to get a bloom from.


This guy's a little small, and I'm not 100% sure if this is two divisions kinda looped together or not. Other people in the reviews posted pictures of larger plants, so I think this may just have been a small one that got grabbed by whoever was packing, rather than the standard for these. Oh well, it'll grow, and they didn't actually say it was blooming size.


This one came with a flower spike! Didn't expect that. I'm almost tempted to open this flask early and see if I can get seeds. These can have much better color than this, but it would probably be hard to put it in brighter light, which produces better red coloration in sundews, without cooking it in the little flask. Curious to see how this develops in there, and how long it'll be before it should be taken out.

Overall, I'm happy. Not an exciting mounting job, but I'm sure it would work fine. Healthy plants to my eye. I'd order again if they had something I was looking for- which they might! I haven't checked, I don't have orchid cash right now.