[Suvuseh]

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[masaredera]

I view a little moisture at the roots as a way to provide a little bit of evaporative cooling, and to provide a bit of compensation for the moisture loss in the warm box.

In winter, I take the opposite approach and ship dry.

[ManHolDenPoker]

My order from Sam was not what I expected! Lowered expectation than what I had thought!

I complained because paid my hard earn money to get good flasks. Send photos of my flasks and he said he will send replacements next time he is in Canada.

He gave me a discount which is good but I do not like to buy bargain flasks because they are setback for at least a year+ and prone to rot and death!


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[wasssallx]

John, the Catasetinae were wrapped in very wet newspaper and then all together wrapped in plastic. Pathos were individually covered with shredded waxed paper, then in newspaper and then all
Together again in plastic... When I complained the first time he admitted he has no clue about Catasetinae, and for this reason I gave instructions NOT to wrapped in plastic... Second complain, he admitted he actually don't want to sell Catasetinae but does it to help Fred Clarke (yeah, right....) and as for the Paphios, "it was his employee" missing up the labels and apparently he had selected the best sanderianum he had for me (yeah, right...). Furthermore, according to him Catasetinae and Paphios do not travel well together... And therefore the problems... Then I ask myself if he knows that, why he keeps shipping then together? On the other hand, I must admit that the excuse of those plants not traveling well together is so ridiculous as saying that you cannot ship Masdevallias with Cattleyas because the first want it cool and the other intermediate...

[wasssallx]

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[acissombiapse]

if you take a properly hydrated plant that is quite warm, and wrap it in plastic or newspaper and plastic, it will breathe out quite a bit of moisture and become prone to rot. I have seen plenty of plants from our greenhouses that were put on rolling carts, and get wrapped with shrink wrap and head to the truck; the plastic gets soaking wet from the respirated moisture from the leaves. not saying that the plants were wrapped properly or not....

[Pharmaciest]

I find this thread surprising. I've bought plants from Sam for years and have always gotten very good plants. It seems this doesn't hold true for exports. It's very sad and
disappointing to hear.

[DumErrory]

I have had the same experience as Kavanaru regarding Catasetiine and Orchid Inn. I had ordered a large quantity and they were affected by rot in the last shipment. He replaced them without fuss and I got the new plants a few days ago. They were in soaking wet newspaper as Kavanaru desribed and with fungal damages on the leaves. However, mine were not in any plastic so damages were not fatal.

However, I have always found the Paphiopedilums of great quality and packed in a very good way. If I compare how they are packed bare-root with for example Orchid Limited and In-Charm I believe Sams are better. His Cattleyas has also been great.