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How Orchids Arrive In The Mail;
A Tedious Thread

First- some scale-
Orchids arrive on your porch in a package that is larger/smaller than smol goats:

Whaat's in the booox??!

Apparently, some paper.

Tastelessly green Croc for scale:

Step 3:

Remove an orchid from the box, not unlike a tetromino:

An unwrapped orchid burrito:

The newspaper stabilizes the orchid during travel, and provides a temp change buffer, too.
Substrate (generally the typical orchid bark mix) is kept in the pots with masking tape, which is easy to remove:

Once the paper is away, you can see that the orchid is in good condition, and that the aerial roots are still green, so this orchid isn't too thirsty yet.

First orchid, unwrapped- you can see that its spike(the stalk an orchid blooms from) was well staked and packed, and so arrived intact, all buds undamaged. For scale, the unwrapped plant is taller than my goats-

A close up of the spike and buds, which in the case of this orchid, Brassidium Kenneth Bivins, present as fun little curlicues. I included a pic from the seller (not my pic!) so you can see what the bloom looks like.

Gotta identify the two whose tags fell out before continuing.

Continuing from Intermission, second orchid tetromino removed from box:

Gonna skip the newspaper confetti stage from here on out- let's just say there was a lot, and I will recycle or reuse it.

Second orchid goes by the name of Schomburgkia lueddemannii.

Learning to pronounce orchid names is a whole hobby in itself.

Schomburgkia lueddemannii is weird looking as hell (photo of bloom not mine), which is the type of orchid I prefer.

This one arrived slightly thirsty, which lets me know its habits.

3rd orchid tetromino removed.

Fun fact: at this point the box kept trying to fly away.

3rd orchid is Beallara Marfitch 'Howard's Dream'
(orchids rival racehorses in the name department), out of the box it is quite an impressive plant- nice condition.
Pic of bloom is the seller's.

Fourth orchid is the same as the first, also in spike with lovely curlicue buds.

Most notable about this one, though, is its impressive nest of aerial roots. Orchids love humidity, and this is why- these weird roots just water themselves straight from the air.