NOID catt [?].to buy or not to buy? $12 @ bkln botanic garden

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If you can't see the roots crawling out, there's usually damage. Especially when the leaves are wrinkled like that. That's due to dehydration, and that's a very good sign it wasn't taken care of very well and may have damaged roots.

It's not terrible, but it's still a gamble. Although the odds are not that bad in favor of success.

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there's a place in Chinatown where you can buy orchid in this condition for 5 bucks, but they usually carry just phals and onc. hybrids.