Forum member selling unacceptable plants

[Merlyn]

I just bought a Bulb. pulchrum (strangularium) from Chris147's for sale add here. I'm attaching a pix of what it looked like when I unpotted it. It fell apart into 3 pieces, no live roots, and hadn't acclimated to the pot obviously. I'm also attaching a pix of a Bulb. medusae he's trying to sell and you can tell by the pix that it's more than half dead and not doing well. He's refused refunding and I don't think his lame excuse that he has to get rid of them is a valid reason to sell these plants. I definitely discourage anyone from buying any of his plants !

His ad is still on here; FS Bulbos and more FOR SALE!!!
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[Daethen]

Thanks for the info.

[Paul Mc]

WOW, sorry that happened to you.

[Merlyn]

The medusae pix should have clued me but I wasn't interested in it !

[shadytrake]

Hi Merlyn,

While I don't condone sending bad plants, those bulbos probably will do okay. I received some divisions that were like that and I strapped them down tight to some driftwood with some good moss on them. I put them right under some T8's and give them good watering on my special schedule and they took off like gangbusters after a few months. The trick was to make sure the roots were strapped tight.

See the photo. The 2 in the middle left are species and they were literally just like yours.

I expect this year will be the first blooming from the division.

Good luck.

[s.kallima]

Shadytrake is probably right about the fact that your Bulbo will live and eventually grow... but the main issue is that you don't sell something like this as a "plant", but as backbulbs, and backbulbs prices should be very low if not given for free!!! They will take a long time before producing a nice plant because you should have at least 3 healthy pseudobulbs on a rhizome to make a good division, and it is not even the case in what Merlyn ended up getting!
You are right Merlyn to have disclosed this, I cannot find this guy's ad today (wanted to checked what is said about this piece of rotten garbage he calls B. medusae , so maybe he removed it...

[shadytrake]

Exactly. They should have been free. I agree.

[Lagoon]

*Smack* chris147

I hope you can bring them back to health again - good luck, please keep us posted