Vendors I have had luck with

[Kevin_PR]

Originally Posted by kindrag23

BAD! BAD!, I wound up cutting off the leaves from the gramm in hopes that it is something in the leaves. The roots are still healthy, the phulbs are beginning to shrivel a little, will post pictures post hair cut today

If it has no leaves now, but still good bulbs and roots water it less, till it gets a new growth. Newly matured bulbs are smooth and they get a little wrinkly as they age. I would still not worry about it.

[kindrag23]

Okay, it does have 2 new phulbs, that are growing or what I think are phulbs anyways. again will post pictures.

[Kevin_PR]

Originally Posted by kindrag23

Okay I keep seeing this pop up, what is a phytosanitary form? Other then the fact that I know how expensive it may be. I'm not interested in international sellers but I am just curious.

Phytosanitary certification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In a nutshell They also gotta spray them w pesticides sometimes.

[kindrag23]

so they are just making sure that there is nothing iffy going on with the plant.

[Kevin_PR]

They want to make sure no insects, viruses, fungi, bacteria get introduced. There is no garauntee. I have received plants with certs. and still have bugs crawling out of it. CITES is another cert to make sure the organism is not endangered or threatened and if it is you need to show its origin(obviously not collected needs to be captive).

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Thanks Eskevingo, I actually did hear this from person that suggested me this vendor for these 2 specific orchids. I heard that also Seattle Orchids is actually getting plants from these guys! Since the price from Seattle orchids was double on the same plant, I decided to try them. BUT, i do not have to pay for my 2 plants til I pick them up personally and see them at the show here in Miami, so that's why I did agree to this order, if the plants are really bad, I do not have to pay for them. Will post about them when I pick them up:-)

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Originally Posted by Sharry

Tommymiami: I envy your location. Most of my top Ebay vendors are located in Florida. Let me know if you ever get to Rubens. What was the name of the person who sold you those nice Catts?

Kindrag: It's like a restaurant with a teeny menu but everything is done with love. The guy with the monk orchids also sells other terrestrials that I've never heard of. A positive sign is the detail they go into when you ask them a question that they have a genuine interest in your successful growing their plants.

Also people have to start somewhere.

If you refer to these 2 in bloom now, I got them in famous Mickey's Orchids nursery in Ft. Lauderdale. These guys are awesome, and well known for their cats and hybrids. Very nice nursery as well. They do flask most of their plants themselves. True orchid paradise is Homestead - as much as I hate it as a city or location for anything else, there is the vast majority of all Florida Orchid Growers. There are some amazing head blowing nurseries where you can easily spend thousands when you actually enter them. I must always keep myself on the leash when traveling to Keys not to go there!

[kindrag23]

Okay 2 new vendors sent stuff to me today.

Larrys orchids 1st pics. A+ look happy healthy and one even had a bud!!!

Second was through ebay

Orchids for the people

Last pic. Very happy roots and happy leaves and many bulbs. Will most likely order again. A+

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Orchid Fanatic-A+++++++ the orchid is a bag baby you can get in store, but I got a cow horn schomburgkia and let me tell you that thing is monstrous! roots are a little iffy, but it s got several new and happy looking growths on it. for 17.00 + shipping i can say I am a happy camper.

[kindrag23]

pics of the schomburgkia

and my ipad is on;y allowing one photo at a time....

correction I have 3 schomburkia they were broken apart as i moved it!!

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Originally Posted by kindrag23

Okay 2 new vendors sent stuff to me today.

Larrys orchids 1st pics. A+ look happy healthy and one even had a bud!!!

Second was through ebay

Orchids for the people

Last pic. Very happy roots and happy leaves and many bulbs. Will most likely order again. A+

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Orchid Fanatic-A+++++++ the orchid is a bag baby you can get in store, but I got a cow horn schomburgkia and let me tell you that thing is monstrous! roots are a little iffy, but it s got several new and happy looking growths on it. for 17.00 + shipping i can say I am a happy camper.

Kindrag, that's the same schomburgkia I got in HD as bag baby, the same company, mine has also nearly no roots, but it looks very healthy with many new growths, so I am not afraid, they will grow, I immediately mounted it on quite a big piece of cork slab - as I do understand them these babies do not like to be messed up and remounted or re potted too often, and they will EAT your wood with roots within the years, trust me, my big one, you can not even see the wood, only the roots:-)

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Yours is actually even bigger than mine and much more growths, congrat!

[kindrag23]

Umm there is actually 3 of them in the pot....and one has a keiki... want one?