Hi...which orchid hooked you first?

[Tindomul]

Welcome to the Orchid Board. Glad you joined. Great question! My first was a set of three orchids. I work at a college as a lab tech and orchids were to become lab materials for the botany lab at the time. Fortunately all three came out intact with flowers and all. They were a NOID white Phal, a NOID dendrobium and an Oncidium 'Sharry Baby'. I still have all three. I believe that by that time I had already joined this forum in search of orchids that might be small enough to get to bloom inside my vivariums. But those were the three that gave me the confidence to keep going.