It's their death sentence. Since I'm an orchid collector, I thought my heart was going to stop when I rolled up to the display. It was gross to look at. They phals looked like they had been kept in a freezer or outside in a blizzard and they just froze in place. No color ugh. The sellers of this type of atrocity (anything with paint and glitter) do not have serious home growers in mind so they don't care about the plant. They're just creating glitzy centerpieces for those who will just throw them away in January. BTW safeway charges a fortune for these. So, if people keep buying this crap, the marketers will keep doing this. Sorry to be such a downer. At least the amaryllis will have a chance to open their buds and be their beautiful glorious self.
