watering misshaps

[troy]

I watered a plant set on wood stained table came back 8 hrs later and the stain on the wood lifted under the plant, the stain left a bad odor will this damage the roots on the bottom of the pot?

 

[gonewild]

I watered a plant set on wood stained table came back 8 hrs later and the stain on the wood lifted under the plant, the stain left a bad odor will this damage the roots on the bottom of the pot?

Won't hurt the plants but the table is toast.

 

[troy]

The table can go lol.. the plant is 17 growth paph moustache pushing up 2 inflourescences the table can be raplaced, not the plant. Thank you for the info

 

[Happypaphy7]

Wow~ The plant sounds more valuable than any "regular" table.
I hope it is fine.

 

[orchidsimplicit]

I agree forget about the table. Let's see a picture of your beauty, please.

 

[troy]

I'll post a pic soon 1 inflourescence is out of the crown the other is on the way

 

[likespaphs]

when i saw the post, i thought you were asking for other's issues too, so whether or not you want them, this one is mine

Paph parishii is an epiphyte, i believe
as such, the inflorescence is horizontal and not vertical
the buds were a week or two from opening and when i put it back after watering it, the pot fell off the shelf onto the floor and snapped the spike

 

[troy]

Aarrgghh, you lost your parishii inflourescence a week before blooming :-(. This could be a misshap communal post if you all would like to share your misshaps

 

[The Mutant]

Does dropping Paphs all the time count as mishaps? Especially when it often results in said Paph falling out of its pot and/or snapping off parts of its roots... Oh, and killing one by dropping it when it had started to recover from 2 years of wrong culture. :sob:

I've come to the conclusion that I suffer from the fumblefingersyndrome (or rather that my orchids suffer from my having fumblefingersyndrome), but that my orchids have unbreakianum enhanced spikes, because I haven't broken a single spike so far during my 3 years of orchid growing.

Let's take my Paph robinsonii for example. I dropped a couple of weeks ago, upside down, naturally it was in low bud too. The result? One robinsonii half way out of its pot, with some leaf damage and an unscathed spike. It has been repotted since and the spike is happily growing along.

I honestly think that all my near misses with spikes will come back and haunt me. The day I have something in spike that is amazing to be able to flower as a hobby grower and/or a windowsill grower, the spike will break and the Paph in question won't bother to try again for at least 10 years... I am mentally prepared for this to happen. :viking:

 

[Jenn4a]

I just broke part of my phal noID's spike off yesterday. I should have moved it before I started setting up new shelving, (for new orchid set up!) I ended up tapping him with a shelf... Oops... Well he fell over and the plant was coming out of the pot anyways. He got repotted and he looks happier, although he's still top heavy.

And I can't forget Fritz (Schomburg) the 1st. I snapped off all but one leaf when I was repotting him. I have gigantic hands for a girl in my defense I'm sure that's not why that happened; I'm just clumsier than I thought I was.