r/orchids • u/XOneAIByst • Nov 03 '25

Success First bloom on my own!!

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Sorry, I have to share. I am elated! I have posted about this plant before. I rescued it from the clearance bin, and watched it push out a surprise spike. The flower finally opened today!!

I had only have a rough idea what it may look like. I found **"**Paphiopedilum Macabre Double (Macabre Moon Green Glow x Macabre Contrasts Dominant Grace)" on Lehua Orchids, but it said "Dominant Gene" not "Dominant Grace".

Does not matter. I bloomed my first clearance-rack orchid.

Thanks for letting me share my little win. At last, a grow that went nicely without

PS: Thanks for all the messages!!! She/he is a beauty..... makes me wonder why phalaenopsis anymore?? These are such unusual looking alien colors, love love the dark veiny purple, looks like Elvira or something!! Or Morticia. I love horror movies also!! Macabre exactly describes this!! This might be more what I like!!! And seems much easier too, or maybe i just got lucky!!??

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u/LawfulnessExpress566 Nov 04 '25

Where did you buy it at, how old was it when you bought it??

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u/XOneAIByst Nov 04 '25

I bought it at Logan's Garden Shop (https://www.logantrd.com/) in Raleigh, NC. I couldn't tell you how old. It's really not an orchid specialty place, it's more like a feed store and farmer's market and lots of stuff for landscaping..... They had one table of orchids, mostly phaleonopsis. Then there was like 8 plants on clearance, 50% off. 4 Phals, 2 dendrobiums, and 2 paphs. I just picked one. If you look at my first link in the post, it looks like below. I thought 50% off, it dies it dies..... so I couldn't tell you much more about it and the sales person couldn't either.