Comments regarding Gold Country Orchids

In July of 2015, I made my fist purchase of orchids seedlings from Gold Country Orchids. I was so excited! But as a new hobbiest who never bought seedlings before, I didn't know what to expect. So when I noticed the little things were wobbling in their pots, I thought nothing of it. They all had tiny stakes holding them in place, after all. In hindsight, that was NOT a good sign! Only one survived past 6 months. I naturally assumed my inexperience was to blame for their demise, so I didnt complain to the vendor.
Flash forward a couple of years- Ive purchased many seedlings from numerous suppliers, and have never again received such tiny, poorly established orchids from anyone else. Thank goodness. In retrospect, the plants looked as if they had been pulled out of flask the day before, and potted up just to fulfil my order! Amazingly, the one is still alive and may soon bloom for the first time. I jokingly call this one, "my most expensive orchid," because the order was $79 with shipping. When it blooms, it had better be great!

THERE IS ALOT OF POLOTICS IN THE ORCHID COMMUNITY. I have received plants from gold country that are very healthy and robust some are going into bloom now some just growing alan kotch is very knowledgeable about plant genetics and biology he has taught classes wrote books in the subject, I beleive he is an asset to the orchid community

In a purchase of 30 plants from Gold Country Orchids.3/4 (22 plants) had no roots or nearly no roots. Approximately half of the rootless plants were yellow-green in color and were obviously not suitable for delivery. We did not request that the supplier correct the problem so a negative rating would be inappropriate, Gold Country Orchids was not afforded an opportunity to correct the problem. On the other hand, the delivery of so many plants in obviously poor condition makes a neutral rating appropriate in our view.

Customer service and delivery were both positives. Our order was taken by telephone. The salesperson was both courteous and helpful. The plants were delivered quickly and were very well packaged for shipping.