Next chapter in this truly fascinating chronology.
Got this email in response to the last one I sent, pasted above:
In a message dated 7/24/2014 9:38:22 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, JIMxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I need you to tell me what to say to him so that he pots them correctly
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Responded with this:
Jimmy, He knows! U think he don know? He does not care!!!!!
U tell him, leave both plants of the cultivar you next choose in the pots he GETS THEM IN. Place the original pots side by side inside A cache pot....a SMALLER OVAL ONE (or rectangular one) THAN THIS EVIL huge brass piece of merda pot. Ceramic is far nicer than that HUGE brass painted black on the outside PIECE OF GARBAGE anyway.
The issue will be what the top looks like to my pathetic, shallow Wall Street neighbors with the Hermes crap---not that they even look at that, like most, they look at the BLOOMS. Proper way, TWO SEPARATE POTS WILL BE VISIBLE....BUT nobody will look at that! Plus he can put sheet moss on top of the medium re both pots.
What he does now, is, knock both plants out of the pots he gets them in.....put them in the giant ugly brass death pot, fill in the huge empty space with Chilean moss he then wets....and then he puts sheet moss on top of that. The roots start rotting IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!
AND YES, INDEED, NOT ONLY INSURES THE Death OF THE PLANTS, BUT cuts the normal gorgeous bloom interval in half!!!!! Maybe more than in half.
I would personally like to look him in his Faustian eyes and let him have it. For him....it is just business and he is dealing wit, for HIM (and, prolly most of his rich clients) disposable commodities. But don mean YOU have to collude in this!
Again, does it cut what should be a long, perfect blooming period in half? YES IT DOES.
And then, it kills them. He counts on that most people who patronize his pretentious business know ugatz. PROVE HIM WRONG.
Heads up: the right way as per above....someone will have to water them at the right intervals....and let them drain before returning them to the cache pot. Depending on the plants, maybe once a week or even less often! Have a staff member do it, take them to the basement, one of the utility sinks in the laundry room, I will give any info necessary. It’s a no brainer, Jimmy.
Hold on, I took some pics to put up on my orchids board site....cause people are following this. I will paste them in the next mail.
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The less you plan, the more life is a truly great, dynamic journey, often, for all involved.
---------- Post added at 11:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:26 PM ----------
Another update. Jimmy wanted me to put instructions in WORD to give to the our florist guy.
I did, attached it so he can print it out.....said you might consider deleting the last sentence.
U gotta find the funny, it's a delicious birthright.
I am pasting.
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Florist Man:
Re all future Phal cultivars Jimmy chooses for display in our lobby:
Keep both plants of the cultivar in question….one of our last had crown damage, by the way, along with nearly all the roots on both plants rotted… KEEP BOTH PLANTS in their original pots as you get them from the grower (Taiwan?) or local wholesaler… in what appears decent NZ Sphagnum moss.
Put the twin plants in their pots as they are into either a small oval or rectangular cache pot. We prefer heavy ceramic. Do not fill in empty space with the Chilean moss you use. No filling with anything!
You may put the sheet moss on the top of the medium in both pots, but it’s not necessary. Jimmy’s call. Both pots should be drenched and allowed to DRAIN before putting them in the cache pot before we receive the finished presentation to put on the display table in our lobby.
What you are doing now---as I am sure you KNOW… starts root rot immediately, insures the death of the plants….AND, it also cuts the normal, long interval of perfectly retained blooms and new buds opening at least in HALF. Because most of the roots are ROTTED early on,and the plants in great distress.
(YOU LOWLIFE Faustian THIEF.)
No no no. We do not talk to others like this here on Orchid Board. If you don't want to read about it then just unsubscribe and stop reading this thread. Don't be rude about something you are not interested to hear.
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