Did I just kill her Orchid?

All I have to do to kill an orchid is *look* at it. They've been known to commit suicide when I walk into the garden section at the store. They know I'm coming before I turn into the parking lot. You can hear them quaking.

I don't have a black thumb......my whole HAND is black. I have the Black Visa Card. I am The Mighty Plant Killer. It's illegal in Florida for me to be within 1000 feet of a nursery.

Poor orchid.
 
Oh , she's not going to be angry or sad.
When she see's all the suffering you went through,
she's going to wrap her arms around you and cover you with kisses.
Don't give any thought to things of no concern.
You'll be surprised. She will probably laugh about it.
 
Could you possibly find an artificial one which looks identical? Then you won't make the same mistake again. (By the way, why are you watering HER plant?)
 
LOL an artificial one! Great grandmother used to spend three months of each year with one of her four children. The first year of her "rotation" that she spent with my dad and stepmother, they noticed a spot on the carpet around an artificial rubber plant. Great watered it!
 
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Bonnie said:
I never felt that men and houseplants should ever get near each other .... that's from my own personal experience ...:oops:
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Actually, I used to be really good with houseplants. I always kept 2 or 3 going because my daughter loved them. But after she grew up and got her own place, I planted all my houseplants out in the yard and remained houseplant-free until Michelle and I married. She's got the orchid, some African violets and a few ferns, and she posted their "care schedules" on the fridge.

I usually leave them alone but I got really bored yesterday.
 
Lavinia said:
Could you possibly find an artificial one which looks identical? Then you won't make the same mistake again. (By the way, why are you watering HER plant?)
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I think the orchid's gonna be ok. She'd have a hard time forgiving me if I replaced it with a fake, but if it starts going downhill I'll give my grandson my credit card and let him take her out to select a new one, and maybe buy her lunch, too (he's 19).
 
I was thinking that maybe the soil, being at room temperature, would take the chill off of the water before it got to the roots.

I posted earlier about an inside activity for the winter, and maybe getting some indoor plants could be part of the answer.
 
Chet said:
I was thinking that maybe the soil, being at room temperature, would take the chill off of the water before it got to the roots.

I posted earlier about an inside activity for the winter, and maybe getting some indoor plants could be part of the answer.
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Yeah, I think the flower's gonna be ok.

I started building an indoor veg garden a couple years ago, then the pandemic messed up getting supplies, and then I, uh, got busy with Michelle, and now we'll be moving soon and the place has yards. Anyway, I built this long wooden shelf unit and bought a few 6" high plastic bins and some soil, but I didn't get any further. I was gonna put it in front of the sliding glass door here, but problem was, it faces directly south, so from this particular location it would have gotten pretty fierce, pretty direct sunlight most of the year. I'd have figured out something, though.

Bottom line, indoor gardening would have been fun. Challenging, probly, but fun. And interesting.
 

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