Can plants cause black mold, humidity damage, etc.?

[Optimist]

It sounds like they are trying to create a scape-goat for some reason. Maybe they found black mold in the basement. It takes a huge amount of persistant standing water to create black mold. If your orchids are properly areated, they are no more guilty than cup of coffee would be. Your orchids raise the quality of your life, and keep you mentally healthy. The clean up crew ( which is what they are) needs to stop catastrophising over situations that have not occured.

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If they actually have black mold you should ask to be transferred, as it can lead to upper respiratory distress if you are around it for a long time.

[JMNYC]

Originally Posted by Optimist

It sounds like they are trying to create a scape-goat for some reason. Maybe they found black mold in the basement. It takes a huge amount of persistant standing water to create black mold. If your orchids are properly areated, they are no more guilty than cup of coffee would be. Your orchids raise the quality of your life, and keep you mentally healthy. The clean up crew ( which is what they are) needs to stop catastrophising over situations that have not occured.

---------- Post added at 06:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:41 PM ----------

If they actually have black mold you should ask to be transferred, as it can lead to upper respiratory distress if you are around it for a long time.

I was actually leaning toward thinking the same! Some kind of HISTORY plagues them. If so, very sad....but in no way an excuse for ignorance; catastrophic events are supposed to move everyone to LEARN.