HELP! Will I have to leave my orchids behind?

[georgiabelle]

Happy New Year everybody! This year is a year of big change for everybody, especially me! Finishing my last year of high school, and moving to upstate New York for school!!! Going to be studying Viticulture and Enology, so not wandering TOO far from my little plant babies..

Moving from sunny and humid South Florida will be a big change for me as I've never lived anywhere with such a cold climate. I am particularly worried about my orchids. They lived inside for a while, but I have since moved them back outside so they have a fair chance at flowering!

I was hopeful at first about bringing them, as there are quite a few apartments with fantastic lighting. I am worried that the climate change would shock them into dormancy, or worse! I could leave them here with my family, but I'm just attached to them... they're my babies!

What should I do, leave them? Develop a new collection? Keep a few? I have no idea. We'd be driving up there, and I have less than 20 (for now), so transport isn't particularly an issue!