Lol! Thanks water witchen! I am often told that I am way too blunt as well so I know what you mean there! However! at least I am just as blunt with myself about myself as I am with others so normally I have already called myself out on most things! BUT, if I ever start listing off ridiculous, never going to happen concerns to you in the future just be like....OK Emma! It's time to go put your foil hat back in the drawer and come back down to reality! And I will just bust out laughing and be like OK! Throw those worries out of my head! Plus....their are parts of the orchid world....primarily those sources and videos newbies come by first...that do a really fantastic job at kinda horrifying newbies!!! It's like, between just the constant videos that show how to handle all the problems and how problems start....which is great and useful once you have problems but they never really tell you, realistically, how common are these problems! So all you do at the start is create this big "don't" list in your head! You know what I mean??
The more I thought about your watering system and others the more I realized what I believe the key is....knowing your plants. And knowing your plants very well. Knowing what spot has just been there for ever and never spread and what markings are just markings and what are possible problems. And just knowing that they are healthy. I only have two plants so far that I've owned long enough to really feel decently confident with them being healthy. Just because I am so new and now diving into these different types and ages of orchids... all my orchids are new to me and everyone seems to be in some level of "quarantine" besides my two. I would say in another month or so I would feel really confident about doing that with four or so plants because I would have had them for many months and really kinda figured them out but I have another couple of handfuls that I definitely don't trust being anywhere near those guys. So the more I thought about it; the more I realized that just because I don't really have a "collection" of plants I trust and really know yet, and all of mine are new, I think I just am so use to everybody being in isolation and separated and a world where I know all my plants and what is what on them....just seems so like such a far away concept! You know what I mean!? Quarantine levels all around at my house!
BUT! Really good to know that draining out the window isn't total ridiculousness... it seems like at MOST I only water about every 3-4 days (for s/h reservoir top off that is) maybe I flush a bit more often if the orchid is transitioning and has the mold in the pot like my current s/h test subject does! So it's not like that would even be that bad during winter either and just pulling the hose in when I'm done! I just had no idea there were so many creative ideas like this!
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