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Leaf damage ID help pleaser
I see a lot of people asking for "free" advice here, and not getting the
hostile response I have received over this one. What did I say or do to get this reaction? It was a simple innocent little question, not spam, a flame, or a rant. I had done a lot of internet research and book research before asking and had not seen or read anything like it . I had a theory of what it may be, based on when it showed up and what I had been doing. Confirmation that it was what I thought it was , and not some other MAJOR disease would have been nice. I don't care how many times I read about diseases, until I actually see a picture (or a live plant) with a disease, it is difficult to relate the words to practice. At least for me it is as I am more visual. The question had nothing to do with what store it was bought at. That particular plant is a healthy flowering DGMRA Winter Wonderland "White Fairy" ( http://katkom01.home.comcast.net/wfairy.jpg ). It was bought at the Dallas Home and Garden show from the Greater North Texas Orchid Society (GNTOS), along with 4 others. The person who placed it at the booth for the benefit of the GNTOS was a local Commercial orchid seller. Does that make me more or less entitled to "free advice"? Would any of the group feel differently if my previous posts of what I though were unusually patterned or colored flowers had not mentioned where they were bought? I thought it mind blowing that Wal Mart, Lowes, or home depot even carried Orchids , much less one of the patterns I bought. By the way, just to balance things out, I now have 27 orchids. Of those, 12 were bought at local garden shows from one of the two orchid clubs in our area. Several of those had no name on them, and were not in any better (or worse ) shape than the ones I bought at the box stores. At the one orchid show I went to, I was not impressed with the ones I saw for sale. They were ALL, plane jane vanilla orchids, nothing special to them. All of the unusual ones I saw that I liked were the ones submitted for judging , which were not for sale, even if I took a day off from work to drive the 30+ miles to that particular orchid vendors shop. Naive ? No. I know what to expect when I buy from the box stores. So far all I have bought from box stores have been pretty healthy and are doing good. That comes from doing research and carefully inspecting the plants before making a decision. Box stores are also open at convenient hours. My local orchid growers are not. Box stores are nearby. My local orchid growers are not. Box stores allow me to visually see and inspect the item before buying. Most of my local orchid growers are mail order and you cannot touch and inspect the plant before buying it . As you said, caveat emptor, and I am. I am not trying to imply the local / mail order growers are fly by night, but I do not know them, and plants are one thing I really need to know the supplier or be able to visually inspect before buying. This group is not for vendors only. As with all USENET groups it is for anyone who is interested in the group and wishes to exchange information (chat or socialize if you will) about their interest. Some of the people here may be vendors. Some of them are "professional" hobbyists. Some of them are newbie's looking for more information. I doubt any of them come here to be verbally attacked, especially me. I get enough of that from my teenage daughter! The little smiley at the end of the post, meant it was not a rant, flame or put down. It was TONGUE IN CHEEK! Maybe I should have used :-J "K Barrett" wrote in message . .. You're naive if you think coming into a group of vendors bragging about a bunch of [warty] orchids you bought for cheap at Walmart then wanting to know why they aren't growing and wanting free advice isn't going to raise some hackles. Get your head out. So, caveat emptor, Bruce. And you get what you pay for. K Barrett "Bruce Musgrove" wrote in message ... I don't know... maybe a usenet newsgroup dedicated to that particular item / hobby, and full of professionals / amateurs / hobbyists willing to help others (AKA newbies) learn ? :=) Wasn't that intent of USENET? a virtual gathering place where users of similar intersts could electronically share information. "Kenni Judd" wrote in message ... snip Where else, besides the seller, should you first take questions or problems about any product you've purchased??? Kenni |
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