Lowe's Clearing Out Orchids

[butterfly_muse]

Originally Posted by Nanook 2010

Talk to the Outdoor manager, the actuall manager, not a regular employee. Managers usually wear the blue vests. Walk them over to the clearance rack and ask him/ her if they will sell you multiple plants for a discount.

Let them know that you aren't paying $7 for a what appears to be a dead plant. I offered to buy 6 for $10 and he took it.

I've used this technique twice now and have been successful

I tried that, my guy is a [insert mean word here]. He actually knows they're not dead, and he knows they can make $ on them. When we move in a couple of weeks I might test the waters on the manager over there...*maniacal laugh*

[jesscorine]

Originally Posted by Nanook 2010

Talk to the Outdoor manager, the actuall manager, not a regular employee. Managers usually wear the blue vests. Walk them over to the clearance rack and ask him/ her if they will sell you multiple plants for a discount.

Let them know that you aren't paying $7 for a what appears to be a dead plant. I offered to buy 6 for $10 and he took it.

I've used this technique twice now and have been successful

I purposely found a full-price dendro with a broken bloom spike, took it inside (not the seasonal employees in the garden center) and asked the boy if I could get a discount since it was broken. He offered 50% off without a second thought. teehee

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I said I'd ETA but you guys are too quick and it would be lost already Here is my Lowe's haul, all from the past 2 months, mostly the past 2 weeks

here's the link to my google album
https://plus.google.com/photos/11624...CIK53vnn2u6TZA

[butterfly_muse]

Originally Posted by jesscorine

I purposely found a full-price dendro with a broken bloom spike, took it inside (not the seasonal employees in the garden center) and asked the boy if I could get a discount since it was broken. He offered 50% off without a second thought. teehee

---------- Post added at 06:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:48 PM ----------

I said I'd ETA but you guys are too quick and it would be lost already Here is my Lowe's haul, all from the past 2 months, mostly the past 2 weeks

here's the link to my google album
https://plus.google.com/photos/11624...CIK53vnn2u6TZA

First of all, besides Estimated Time of Arrival, I have no idea what ETA means. Secondly, those are sooooo great! All mine carries is Phals and those baggie Catts, but they don't clearance the Catts. I should try other stores in the area to see if they have other kinds of orchids. They look wonderful!

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Originally Posted by The Orchid Boy

Here's a treasure I found at Lowes. A Brassavola Little Stars "bag baby" in spike! I got it for $12. And it was fresh.

Here's an earlier thread I had started with a few of my and other peoples' Lowes purchases: Treasures found at Lowes

I had to Google it to see what it looks like, but that's awesome! Huzzah!

[jesscorine]

Originally Posted by butterfly_muse

First of all, besides Estimated Time of Arrival, I have no idea what ETA means. Secondly, those are sooooo great! All mine carries is Phals and those baggie Catts, but they don't clearance the Catts. I should try other stores in the area to see if they have other kinds of orchids. They look wonderful!

ETA = edit to add
The Catt was a bag baby, $6.97 full price, something like that...
Also, the phal on the far right (I removed one pic and added an updated) is a phal my mom bought me from Ikea a year ago...it hasn't spiked but it continuously throws out new roots and leaves. I can't believe I didn't clearance-stalk orchids until now! Last year it was all perennials and garden plants for our house, but we just sold it so I switched to orchids that can travel with us!

[butterfly_muse]

Originally Posted by jesscorine

ETA = edit to add
The Catt was a bag baby, $6.97 full price, something like that...
Also, the phal on the far right (I removed one pic and added an updated) is a phal my mom bought me from Ikea a year ago...it hasn't spiked but it continuously throws out new roots and leaves. I can't believe I didn't clearance-stalk orchids until now! Last year it was all perennials and garden plants for our house, but we just sold it so I switched to orchids that can travel with us!

Ohhhhhhhhh. xD I want to try Cattleyas but I don't have enough light at the moment.

[The Orchid Boy]

Here's a treasure I found at Lowes. A Brassavola Little Stars "bag baby" in spike! I got it for $12. And it was fresh.

Here's an earlier thread I had started with a few of my and other peoples' Lowes purchases: Treasures found at Lowes

[jesscorine]

I just picked up another one tonight. It's my experiment. I've had my hands on it 2 other times in the past week. I finally took it to checkout and asked for it to be marked down from $12.50. The guy in the garden center gave it to me for $4. I swear the bloom spike is over 2'! It has a new spike growing off of it and it is in super dry & crunchy sphag so I just soaked it and I'm going to just watch it. I don't want to re-pot and lose the new bloom spike. It also has some new roots poking out so we'll see!

[butterfly_muse]

Originally Posted by jesscorine

I just picked up another one tonight. It's my experiment. I've had my hands on it 2 other times in the past week. I finally took it to checkout and asked for it to be marked down from $12.50. The guy in the garden center gave it to me for $4. I swear the bloom spike is over 2'! It has a new spike growing off of it and it is in super dry & crunchy sphag so I just soaked it and I'm going to just watch it. I don't want to re-pot and lose the new bloom spike. It also has some new roots poking out so we'll see!

I'd check the sphag to at least loosen it up in the middle and see if you can suss out any dead, gross roots. I had one (that I pictured in here somewhere) that is growing a new bloom stalk off his spike. Granted he hasn't done anything AT ALL in the last week, but it has only been a week. I repotted him, and he seems okay. If you're super worried, just loosen some of that moss so you don't lose more roots in the process.

[jesscorine]

Originally Posted by butterfly_muse

I'd check the sphag to at least loosen it up in the middle and see if you can suss out any dead, gross roots. I had one (that I pictured in here somewhere) that is growing a new bloom stalk off his spike. Granted he hasn't done anything AT ALL in the last week, but it has only been a week. I repotted him, and he seems okay. If you're super worried, just loosen some of that moss so you don't lose more roots in the process.

I will give it a moment to soak and poke through it later tonight. Thanks for the advice!

[KrissieLynn]

All of my clearance rack phals are NOIDs, so some I have given names. Please don't laugh too hard.

The first one - the white one - is Teensy, my $1 mini phal and one of my two most recent ones.

The second one I got the same day as Teensy, and named this one Sunshine. I got sunshine because I wanted a yellow one, and he had good roots that I could see right away! And when I repotted him just an hour ago, I had to upgrade from a 3.5 inch pot to a 5 inch pot because the AMAZING (!!) roots would not fit into the 3.5 or 4 inch pots I had!

(I read the sticky about posting photos before attempting this, so if something doesn't go through, I'll have to figure something else out...)