Classic goofs

[AnonYMouse]

ES, thanks for the info but noooooooo. I'm pretty handy but no longer a contortionist (and might piss off the landlord should word get out).

I have 3 more tuberettes and they weren't that precious.

You know that voice that tells you to take precautions (like plugging the drain), listen to it!

[AnonYMouse]

$@%&(%&!@!!!

I just knocked the crown off my Phal appendiculata. A part of me actually hurts.

[Dollythehun]

Ouch! I hurt for you! 🤤

[AnonYMouse]

I'm screaming in my head! It's not even my favorite but was probably my most precious.

[Dollythehun]

Oh, do I have stories...There was that antique end of day glass vase...I'm crying with you.

[estación seca]

Your orchids need to take out a protective order against you.

[AnonYMouse]

How the hell did these things ever survive in the wild?

[estación seca]

They evolved before things that think they're pretty and worth bringing into the house evolved.

[No-Pro-mwa]

Well I guess we have all dropped pots and broke spikes. I've done a few, probably my worst sin was trying to take a yellowing leaf off my paph seedling. Instead of letting it get dry I just had to have it off NOW. So I pulled and pulled out the crown. Don't ask me how, but the two newest leaves came out. It is growing new ones finally. I didn't kill it surprisingly.

[AnonYMouse]

Shannon, you give me hope!

I lean toward science more than the other stuff. So, when I didn't toss that appendiculata crown (it's the crown and a leaf-basically the plant minus old leaf axils and roots) and put it on a pad of sphag, on top of tree fern, soaked in kelpmax, I was taking a leap. Since I didn't know where/if there were any meristem tissue, if I could give it a decent enough environment...Took little effort on my part, lets see what happens. In a few days, it will rot or not.