well I'm not going to just toss it, regardless, although I hope it's nothing serious like you're saying. Worst-case scenario sounds like it just doesn't grow well or takes a long time to recover, that doesn't seem like a good reason to kill it.
Anyways, after getting it I did actually take it out of the pot to check the roots and loosen the dense ball of moss around the roots, so it seems likely that between that, transportation, and being in the store, that it could have been damaged. But it hasn't lost any flowers or buds and buds are still developing at about 1 every 2 days, so I'm not going to worry about its growth just yet.
(I also drilled a hole in the bottom of the ceramic pot and got rid of the flimsy plastic pot inside the ceramic--it really couldn't be more obvious that the nurseries are selling flowers and not plants)
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