Need a yea or nay recommendation

[Mugsie]

I'm looking for a coelogyne unchained melody. Orchids for the People has one. If any of you used them, a simple yea or nay would be fine. If you want to elaborate, that's ok too. Thanks....

[knewt]

I'm an absolute beginner here, and have no experience with this vendor, but that coco fiber he uses in his re-potting video is really weird.
I guess it must work, as he's growing them in it.

[Blueszz]

Originally Posted by knewt

I'm an absolute beginner here, and have no experience with this vendor, but that coco fiber he uses in his re-potting video is really weird.
I guess it must work, as he's growing them in it.

Keep in mind that what works for him might work for you or maybe not at all. All depends on growing conditions. Because of that we might have to pot up the same species entirely differently.

For instance. When I buy a plant that grows in moss I have to repot and use bark with or without some moss (depending on species with or without moss). Even while for the nursery it grew the most beautiful roots in moss you’ve ever seen.
100% moss doesn’t work for my environment.

[estación seca]

Coelogynes are some of the thirstiest of all orchids. I can see something that's easy to keep wet working well for them.

[Blueszz]

Previous summer I needed to dunk the pot daily to keep the plant hydrated (Coelogyne cristata). The nursery grew it in bark and it was severely under potted.

This year I layered bark and moss and maintenance is much easier.

[Jmoney]

I got two masd coccinea from them. Roots were poor. In all fairness, I did not follow-up. I figured I'd just grow them on. One is bouncing back, the other is meh.

[jtrmd]

you never know till you try. I remember when they were on ebay years ago. I got some ok plants from them.

[Grim Tuesday]

I have made multiple orders from this vendor, including for this exact plant. Big yea from me! Everything I get from them including this plant is larger than expected. This plant had 4 active growths! And had beautiful flowers this year. It is one of the most vigorously growing orchids I own. I tried keeping some plants in the coconut fiber he uses, but I find that it dries out too quickly in my house. I changed my coelgyne unchained melody over to spaghnum moss and it is quite happy.

[avian]

Both of my Coelogyne unchained melody orchids are potted in bark and they don't do very much. Maybe I'll switch them over to a combination of bark and sphagnum and see if that works better.

I got a few plants from Orchids for the People and didn't like the coconut fiber. The plants did not do well in that media here.

[BON]

A specimen size YEA from me. I acquired a Dendrobium from there that had tons of mature growth that in season produced a plethora of flowers. And when I got the plant it already had three times the new growths that have now matured and should produce hundreds of flowers in Spring. Price was what most places charge for a plant one tenth the size.