Orchids return to ordinary households, no longer a hobby for the few

    After the frenzy of orchid speculation, people's understanding of orchids has gradually become more rational, and with some speculators pulling out of the orchid market, prices in the orchid market have settled back to modest levels. However, whether ordinary consumers or orchid traders, all believe that today's orchid market is the normal, healthy flower market.

    Having weathered the storms of soaring and crashing orchid prices, orchid prices in 2009 began to gradually return to reason, with orchids shifting step by step from investment goods back to ornamental plants, and the orchid market emerging from its fever and slowly calming down.

    Several orchid traders in Kunming, Yunnan Province, said prices are very cheap now; anyway, today's prices are basically consumer prices, at a consumer level, so that anyone, as long as you like them, can afford them, unlike the sky-high prices of the past, when some who wanted to buy simply did not have that much money. Now orchids can enter thousands of households; back when they were expensive, we could not even afford to look at them, let alone buy them. Now anyone can grow them; on a salary of a few thousand yuan a month, a few hundred yuan is enough to buy a pot of orchids.

    For some orchid growers and investors, the way forward is to take the route of large-scale cultivation, let orchids truly enter ordinary households, and develop a courtyard orchid economy, so as to build a healthily developing market. Liu Xingbang, vice president of the Yunnan Province Orchid Association, said that the orchid market today, after years of evolution, has gradually matured, so that what price range suits one's own cultivation and what price range suits one's own investment are now clear, and orchid enthusiasts' investment ideas have also become relatively mature. Liu Xingbang, vice president of the Yunnan Orchid Association, said that after the heavy speculation in orchids in 2006 and 2007, those who suffered the biggest losses were the orchid industry and ordinary orchid growers; now the orchid market has entered a sluggish period, and if orchids are now invested in and grown as normal commodities, the risk will be very low. Liu Xingbang believes that if we enter the orchid market now, it can be said that as long as your skills are up to it, it is basically zero risk; why? Because prices are relatively low now, so entering now is a very good opportunity to profit.