I am beginning to develop a taste for the just add ice company...after the grocery store supply is a month or so old, they look pretty ragged, the blooms fade, they look 'dead' to most folks....I wait till the bitter end, and make an offer on whats left....and the lady at the store generally takes it, like $2 each...I get them home, take them out of those pots, and trim them up. they usually start to bloom again in about 3 months, depending on the season, either on a new spike or off the old one...some have 3 spikes on them! so, I also have taken that moss off and put them in bark... I put a few corks in the bottom of the original cache pot, and I give them as gifts wherever I go, doctors, friends, whoever! I instruct folks on how to take care of the orchid, and bring a few folks into the fold of orchid loving! using this method enables me to drink more wine to collect the corks!
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