Repotting Gripes!! Sound off here with me!

[astrid]

Hey everyone!!

Everyone has gone out of flower now and started new growths, so it is time to repot!
I repotted five orchids last night, and I have several things to COMPLAIN about what nurseries have done to these precious and beautiful plants:

1- Dendrobium kingianum- from Matsui -
I unpotted my "Jadzia Dax" and inspected her roots. She was potted in promix. Upon lightly squeezing the media, it all fell away from the plant, revealing a SUPER TIGHT root ball that had just been pulled out of an old pot and plopped into a new pot, just placing more promix around it! It was still perfectly shaped like a solo cup!!

2- Odontonia Papageno "Mi Amour" - from Larry's Orchids-
I let this one bloom and didn't check the roots very closely. It looked like it was potted properly in good bark media, so I let it go for a while. Boy oh boy what a mistake!! ALL the roots were dead because some dingus just left a foam core about 1 inch in diameter in the center of the plant! Gross! Now I'm going to have to recover it for a year... sigh...
Shame on you, Larry!

3- NOID white miltoniopsis - from Matsui -
Nothing too spectacularly bad, but there was a dang ball of sphagnum packed tightly as could be immediately underneath the base of the plant.

Nothing has topped the plant full of baby earwigs that I brought home last summer, though, and I hope nothing will!

Have you found anything absurd/upsetting/disgusting when you were repotting a plant?