Helping Retailers Improve Their Orchid Selection

We offer an abundance of orchids for retailers and are available to chat about what variety would work best for your retail needs.  

Retailer Tips

Inventory Planning

What types of orchids should you grow? Well, it depends. What type of orchid business do you have, desire or wish to move toward? Many growers grow orchids for cut flowers, commercial potted plants, or personal pleasure and build it into a business.  We like to raise a hefty amount of varieties for cut flower and potted plant growers but we also offer orchid seedlings that are destined for orchid aficionados.

Hybrids and Clones

Mericlones

Mericlones are plants that are produced via vegetative reproduction.

If one were to cut a part of an orchid plant and grow that division it would eventually grow and blossom exactly like the original plant. Cloning is a process where large quantities of orchids or other plants can be made from a single plant. Thus clones ideally would result in plants that are identical to the original.

 

 

Watering Orchids

 

We have found watering orchids to be subjective. It depends on many different factors and because it is essential we thought that we would discuss this topic in detail. Orchids have adapted to absorb water from all plant parts. Many have also developed water storage systems, somewhat like camels and cacti.

List of retail 2" pots

L purpurata 'Bliss' x C aurantianca (S3819)
Ctna. Why Not '2001' x Epilcat. Charlie Brown 'Passion Punch' (C2009)
Ctna. Maui Maid 'Sunny' x C. Valentine 'Coerulean Sunrise (C2028)
Ctna. Why Not 'Vivid' x sib 'Inner Fire' (C2048)
Ctna. Maui Maid 'Sunday' x C. skinneri var coerulea 'Orglades' (S2916)

List of retail 4" pots

C. bowringiana var. coerulea x C. deckerii (C2039)
Den. Haleahi Mistletoe 'Upright' xx finisterae (H2067)
Blc. Haleahi Sunbow 'Passion Orange' x Pot. Love Call (S3463)
Ctna. Maui Maid 'Perfert Snow' x Pot. Haleahi Jewels 'Bounty' (S3359)
Blc. Haleahi Sunbow 'X0025' x C. deckeri (C2002)