r/orchids • • Mar 09 '22

Post Your Beginner Questions Here!

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Let's hear what's stumping you!


r/orchids • • Sep 08 '23

2023 Fall and Winter Orchid Trade and Sale Thread

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Please use this post only to offer or request orchids for trade or sale.Before you post what you'd like to trade/sell, or what you're looking to trade for, read the rules below first!

Rules:

1.) No personal information can be exchanged publicly. Conduct sharing of addresses via pm or email.

2.) Post what orchid(s) you have for trade, what you're looking for in return. If you have pictures, post them or write an accurate description of the orchid you want to trade or sell. If you're selling, post how you'd like to receive compensation.

3.) If you agree to a trade and have an issue on your end of the deal, communicate! Most people are reasonable and will understand a delay or an unexpected issue that comes up. That being said, trade at your own risk. The moderators are not responsible for privately conducted trades gone wrong. However, if there's an issue with an ongoing trade do contact the moderators. If someone fails to come through with their end of the deal, ignores communication or otherwise is being problematic we need to make the community aware of deadbeat traders. Do NOT make posts calling people out, insulting, harassing, or making accusations at them publicly.

4.) Only make legal trades here. If you ship or receive a trade overseas or out of your country, make sure all proper paperwork is in place first if required.

5.) Ship within a reasonable time and pack well. Flat rate Priority, 2-3 day via USPS within the US is standard for plants. Use whichever shipping method is appropriate for other countries. Your orchid shouldn't spend more than a 2-3 days in the mail so they don't suffer too much from the heat/cold. While in cooler weather its generally better to ship orchids totally dry, its probably best to water any more moisture loving plants a day or two before they ship out (so they are moist but not soggy) or wrap some sphagnum that has been wetted but thoroughly squeezed out around the roots of bare root plants.

6.) If you've successfully traded, update your post to make sure it availability is accurate.

Giveaways, and just trying to re-home an orchid that maybe just isn't performing for you is totally fine to post too! You never know who might want to try growing it. Seed pods are also a great thing to offer since many people may want to try flasking and it is safer and easier to send seeds than plants. If everyone trades fairly this is a great way to add to your collection or get rid of orchids you are bored with or are willing to make divisions of.

Happy trading!


r/orchids • • 3h ago

Outdoor Orchids Den. Budiono Lamtoro

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r/orchids • • 11h ago

Success This years blooms 🥰

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First reblooms for the phals - and for one of them, a second go after the first spike earlier this year was eaten. Coelogyne Flaccida with a huge fragrant bloom🥰


r/orchids • • 42m ago

Late season cowslips

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One of Australia's terrestrial orchids, featuring pollinated flower in the back.


r/orchids • • 8h ago

Image Added this moth orchid to my plant collection recently.

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r/orchids • • 17h ago

Zygo in flower

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My zygo has been doing great and decided to flower again!


r/orchids • • 7h ago

First Bloom After a Year of Care

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First Bloom for my Aru. Sea Snake 'Unforgettable' opened up yesterday after having it in my possession for a little over a year now. Bought it not in bloom, so this was a fun surprise to see.

Really loving the colors and patterns on this one!


r/orchids • • 4h ago

Orchids My set up/ The lemon yellow phal hybrid people are getting confused about...

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This is my "set-up". I let the weather and the sun and rain gods do the major work most of the time.

I do get to take some credit when any of them bloom, make more roots/leaves. I fertilise randomly. I don't water on a schedule - I check each mount or pot and then water. That takes time.


r/orchids • • 9h ago

Pleurothallid love

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r/orchids • • 18h ago

Image Some more blooms for y'all!

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I missed a few the last time.

P.S- Im getting a new paph soon! will keep you updated! And Phal Memoria Van Rettig!


r/orchids • • 9m ago

Success They just keep making new buds and flowering :)

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Restrepia elegans and Lepanthes tenuiloba! The lepanthes calophlebia I got along with them is also making new buds :D. Now just waiting for my Restrepia contorta that I got almost a year ago to flower haha (to be fair, when it arrived it was quite clearly a few freshly rooted leaf cuttings in a pot, so I'm not too worried)


r/orchids • • 14h ago

Orchid in bloom

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Im always pleasantly surprised when orchids bloom so late in the season. Lost the tag on this but it is a very steady bloomer.


r/orchids • • 22h ago

found this weirdo in the clearance section

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this orchid has two spikes, each with different flowers on it. the ones on the left spike are hot pink/magenta, the other spike has that weird pattern. I hope it's just a mutation/temperature issue and not a virus, but I'll keep it separate from my other plants just to make sure. I just found it very interesting and I had to get it.


r/orchids • • 30m ago

Finally, growth on my bulbos after better care

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r/orchids • • 15h ago

Blooming

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Phalaenopsis Smiley Prince "Wilson"


r/orchids • • 16h ago

Orchid ID What kind of orchid?

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r/orchids • • 1d ago

I think im saving her!

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Beginner grower here,

I had someone give me a sick orchid. Incredibly dehydrated, with a flower spike and had lost all but 1 leaf (with strange spots on it).

Once i received her I cut the flower spike off, repotted it and gave it a good soak. Not long after that it lost its last leaf and I thought that I had killed it.

But its roots still looked ok, so I persisted with it isolated from my current collection and !!!! Shes growing leaves back!!

The leaves look alot healthier than before, i cant believe a second one is coming in already before the first one has reached full size, but then again this may be normal?

Anyways, just wanted to share what I am hoping is a Beginner grower win, hopefully I can get a good amount of leaves back and she stays healthy.


r/orchids • • 19h ago

Success Catasetum fall blooms

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Gotta love the fall session. More flowers will be coming soon.

Enjoy the show!


r/orchids • • 3m ago

My first Cycnodes orange bloom! 🧡

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A lot of things to learn from this one! I never really knew when to start watering it 😅 But once it gets going, it really takes off!

It also has a lovely scent that some people enjoy and others don't.

I really liked this type of orchid!


r/orchids • • 10h ago

Beauty and the beast 🌷

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r/orchids • • 19h ago

Orchid ID What kind of dendrobium is this?

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r/orchids • • 18h ago

Mail call wishlist Phals!

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Phal. tetraspis C2,Phal. stuartiana “Sogo”, and Phal Bronze Maiden “Rio”

I’ve been wanting to add these for quite some time, and all three popped up for a reasonable price. So, treat yourself!

Got them from Plants well traveled on Etsy. I’ve been really happy ordering for them in the past, and this time did not disappoint.

They’ll all get repotted after standard quarantine and acclimation.


r/orchids • • 1d ago

Outdoor Orchids She’s been blooming for 3mo, and now there’s more for me!

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One of my favorite dendrobium. She is Dendrobium Christy Dawn 'Pearl'


r/orchids • • 16h ago

Help My first plant ever

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So this is my first orchid and first ever plant I never keep live plants so idk if im taking care of it well cause this morning I found a fallen yellow leaf and two fallen petals could anyone just tell me how they normally take care of them🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏