"MissTaz" wrote in message
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On Nov 13, 11:45 am, "Manelli Family" wrote:
"MissTaz" wrote in message

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On Nov 9, 4:04 pm, "Manelli Family" wrote:
Here's a pic of some rescues from last spring now in bloom. Another
pic
is
the two that didn't spike. They were taken out to the greenhouse and
spiked
in weeks. One is a den and one an ondicium.

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/e.../GH5-11-07.jpg

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/e.../GH4-11-07.jpg

What is a 'rescue' plant?

They're the plants, in this case orchids, that didn't sell while in
bloom.
Sometimes they're still in excellent condition and sometimes near death.
This depends on how well the person in the garden center cares for them.
They're also always marked down 50 to 75%. Of the last 10 to 12 orchid
rescues I bought, all but one phal was in very good condition. This one
poor phal will probably not make it but I only paid $3.88 for it.



Cheers,



Ok, thanks for that.

That sounds like a fun idea.
Kinda like Christmas- you don't know (if you haven't opened the
presents under the tree..) what you're going to get!

I might see if I can't get some of those.


Of all I the rescues I bought only one Phal (from WalMart) died. All the
others are thriving and several already bloomed and others have spikes. I
seldom pay full price for an orchid. I was recently told though that both
HD and Lowe's plans to return them to the venders rather than mark them
down.