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Originally Posted by Irisha99
Never bought orchids from Trader Joe’s before so I was quite surprised with their condition. I think if it has mushrooms and spiders and bugs all over the plant, it just shows poor care on the part of the seller. I can’t care for them in the condition they are in at this time. I don’t want my Home to be taken over by bugs and spiders (grrr) to the point that I have to call pest control lol! I can’t water them in their pots either, they already are overcrowded in there. So got to clean and repot them. I hear they do tend to grow to be quite large plants. So will pot them all in bigger pots
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You would not have a house infested with whatever came on the plant. Most need plants to live on or survive, so likely wouldn't wander, and if they did, would die quickly. A quick rinse with the garden hose or in the bathtub should get rid of most hitch hikers. The fungus was likely due to the plant being a bit wet in it's packaging, non-specialized stores have no clue how to care for orchids or plants in general...
As to bugs even being there, it's not unexpected. I wouldn't tolerate pest insects, but other sorts of 'guests' are just stuff that happens. Cyms are multi year crops, and are grown in cold greenhouses or presumably even shade houses if grown in warmer places. A few hitchhiking bugs and spiders are unavoidable. I personally prefer to have to wash off a few bugs rather than have growers unnecessarily spray chemicals on plants for purely cosmetic reasons.
Enjoy your new Cym collection, and I hope your have lots of space, they get very large very quickly! If I had the space and a cool room to keep them, I'd have one again (gave it away years ago), I like the flowers.
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