Danny,

Good points, and ones I personally would have never considered, being a
species person.

It also help support the oft-heard advice: Buy all your orchids in bloom!

-Eric in SF
www.orchidphotos.org

danny wrote:
I see a lot of comments about the evils of the mass market growers, but
frankly I don't see comments about some of the obvious evils of the
traditional orchid business. Has anyone noticed that most seedlings of
phals and paphs aren't very good, and if it's a new line of breeding they
are likely to be total crap? This can be especially bad with the slippers