Orchid Accidents - Orchid Board

Tindomul · #1 08-15-2007, 01:53 PM

So Ross suggested, in another thread, that we start a thread on our Faux Pax. hehe. Here is mine:
" I once droped my camera, tripod and all onto my Phalaenopsis. I was very angry. But the plant has recovered. ANd then there was the time I droped a Phalaenopsis. It fell 6 feet, as I was holding it above my head to look under it. It survived too. But the worst is when my girlfriends baby cousin decided to have a fit and smashed the Phalaenopsis I gave to her as a gift on to the floor. That did not survive. It was in full bloom too, coming from the NYC International Orchid Show this past April."

cb977 · #2 08-15-2007, 01:59 PM

LOL! I saw Rosim's thread and thought Ross's idea was a good one...I was just starting the same thread

The worst thing I've done, SO FAR, was to my first Paph (Odette's Spell). After waiting a year for a spike, it finally appeared. Of course, I watched it constantly and was worried that the spike wasn't growing to the height of the one there was when I bought it. It finally started growing in height and put out a beautiful bud so I figured it needed to be spiked, right? Wrong!!!

As I was "helping" my poor baby, I ripped the bud off in one clean snap!

ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay...your turn

Ross · #3 08-15-2007, 02:07 PM

OK, here's the story I told in the other thread:

"Picture number 7 in calendar pics is of Phal Pink Twilight. Before I became bored with black backgrounds I had placed some black flock cloth behind this spike and was photographing it. This image is the first one I took. I was rearranging the plant for better composition when the cloth and the weight that was holding it came crashing down breaking off the spike! The plant survived till last year when it seccumbed to a hail storm. Maybe we should start a thread where we can all share our foux pas?"

flhiker · #4 08-15-2007, 07:13 PM

Well I wasn't going to tell anyone but I bought a Lc. Irene's Song 'Montclair' HCC/AOS It arrived with 2 buds and like Ross going to take a picture. I was setting on the ledge of a urn I have outside to take a Picture for the OB and a gust of wind came and it started to fell. While trying to save it from hitting the ground I grabbed it, unfortunately what I grabbed was the lower bud and of course it came right off and the pot still hit the ground. So imagine me standing there with a camera in one hand and a bud in the other just looking at the plant laying on its side.

The Plant survived and it flowered I did post the flower but it should have been 2

cb977 · #5 08-15-2007, 07:15 PM

Dave...that's so sad...but your story created a very clear visual

I'm happy to hear it survived and bloomed

Tindomul · #6 08-16-2007, 12:34 PM

Man, Dave that sucks. At least you were able to keep the other bud.

cb977 · #7 08-16-2007, 02:42 PM

Well, just in time for this thread!
I waited patiently (okay, maybe NOT so patiently) for FedEx to bring my new terrarium dwellers.

The truck arrived

I opened the box

took out the plants

and immediately dropped the Masd rolfeana that was in a cute little 2" pot onto one of the tiles out in the room!

Happy to report no damage but...

Tindomul · #8 08-23-2007, 04:52 PM

I just killed my Phalaenopsis javanica. After a year of patiently waiting for it to do something it finally decided to grow a new leaf. Unfortunately on of the lower leaves was turning yellow and I decided to take it off. Well the yellow leaf stayed, the top leaves broke off, each leaf separated.

My precious javanica is no more!!!!!!!!!!!!!