Questions About Ecuagenera

[Clawhammer]

Order update: My shipment was shipped via Apopka on Nov 30th and the status remained in preshipment for 9 days. Today it shows as finally being received in Florida and is in transit. So it sat at USPS in FL for 9 days. I had assumed it was moving outside the tracking system and have been checking my icy porch every 15 minutes for the last few days. I think my plants are likely doomed. (Trying not to Florida bash here...)

[DirtyCoconuts]

1) all Florida bashing is likely deserved

2) i think more than likely they made the label and it sat there for that time. i hope for your sake...if not, take pics and contact them right away

[katsucats]

Note that the shipment enters tracking when the shipping label is generated. It is "received" when the shipment is picked up or dropped off at USPS and they accept the package.

[Clawhammer]

I've basically been emailing them every day about this and they have told me every day "sometimes it takes time for USPS tracking to update". If they did make a mistake in shipping it out after letting it sit around for 9 days then they aren't admitting it. Either way I'm prepared for the worst. Thanks y'all

[estación seca]

Hey! I like Florida!

[DirtyCoconuts]

Me too, ES! But can you honestly say that it does not earn its reputation

As my very favorite bit of graffiti said, “welcome to Florida, a sunny place for shady people”

On i75 heading south into Miami lol hahahaha

Or my favorite personal reason, “ to live in Florida you need to have either a great job opportunity or a crippling addiction to the ocean”

For me, it’s the latter



Lol also, ES, you live in AZ?! So clearly you left for SOME reason hahaha just messing with you bud

[estación seca]

I never lived there. My grandparents took us there in the 1960s to visit friends who had retired to Miami. I loved it. We saw the old family-run attractions including Orchid Jungle.

I've only been back a few times - cousin's wedding, visit friends, one Tamiami orchid show. But I really enjoy it. My friends are Cuban and I speak Spanish so I have an experience most tourists don't.

Your job might affect your perceptions....

[Clawhammer]

“welcome to Florida, a sunny place for shady people” -- hahaha.

My company has a plant in Lakeland that I have to visit a couple times a year in normal times and I have had so many weird experiences with people I am convinced everyone on the run from the law in the other 49 states are in Florida. The "Florida man" challenge was really the best "challenge" yet.

DC, you are mitigating my extremist views though!

[DirtyCoconuts]

ES - you are so right. Most of those attractions have been replaced by strip malls. I saws barely old enough to get to Reptile World and the original Parrot Jungle. There is still Coral Castle which is insane that one man built it. And Monkey Jungle which rules bc you are in the cages and the monkeys are out

Also, you hit the nail on the head, you had the very insider experience

Claw hammer- the 80/20 rule of quality is more like the 90-10 rule here but there are some damn good people and some AMAZING nature...there are just 9 bleep holes for everyone ONE lol

[DirtyCoconuts]

okay- here is my LAST orchid order of 2020

brassia caudata
brassia verrucose
brassocattleya fuchs star
epi calanthum
epi medusae
maxillaria callichroma
phal cornu-cervi
phal pulcherrima
prosthechea sceptra


i have really just opened them all, opened the sphag bags and sprayed the roots a bit as it has gotten to the low 60s here and i don't want to get anything cold and wet.

i think i'll dive into them tonight