Besseae exhibit

[littlefrog]

Originally Posted by Tindomul1of9

Very nice!!!!!!!! Your display makes me wanna go out and buy one. How much do they go for in general? That can be a christmas gift for someone I know who loves these. And then I get one for me.
Now I'm gonna get confused between Paphgirl and littlefrog. You got the same avatar, almost.

No, my avatar is the FCC. It is easy. *grin*

Depends on who you buy them from as to the price. If you want the OZ besseae (the newest ones), expect to pay 40-50 dollars or maybe a bit more. Might get lucky and find one for 35. There are a lot of people selling them online (Piping Rock, Orchid Inn, me... no doubt more).

Actually, when it comes down to it, I don't know that I've ever seen a besseae sold for much less than $35 dollars, regardless of breeding. At least a blooming sized one. Maybe I should be charging more...

[Tindomul]

Thanks, if you do decide to charge more, remember to give us a discount.

[Oscarman]

Very nice besseae's and display. Very striking while being simply done.

[Neofalcata]

I can vouch for the quality of Rob's plants. I haven't seen the new OZ besseaes go for less that $45-$50. Maybe I wasn't looking in the right places

[Randy]

But they hate my water When I lived in my last house we had well water, pH 5 & very buffered; they LOVED it. I had a bessea that I had gotten from a friend that wouldn't grow for her that loved my place/water/culture. But when I moved to a place with city water my Phrags started doing poorly. By that point I had 4, 2 of which died, 2 are hanging on with rain water or DDI (when it doesn't rain enough) only culture. The roots were pretty badly damaged. The Don Wimber is the only 1 of the 2 that's growing.

The funny thing is that Paphs do just fine. Also lost due to water quality have been a couple of other orchids over the past almost 2 years since I've lived there, both species, one a phal schilleriana and a dendrochillum (I don't remember the species name off the top of my head).

I guess I really do need to get an RO unit for my greenhouse. They are just rather costly. Guess it's time to bite the bullet.

Randy