A few days ago (everything seems to have happened a few days ago..............age?) I posted about going to Lowe's and seeing at least a dozen Phal. in solid, plastic pots, with those pots filled to the brim with water. Not only that, but the majority of those orchids were getting direct sun and the leaves were sunburned I went back today to get some large pots (to re-pot some plumeria) and I said something to the fellow in charge of the garden center. He was really nice about my criticism of them "drowning" and "baking" all those Phal. He asked if I would take the time and go over to those plants and show him what was happening. I first showed that the pots were still filled to the brim with water, even after (at least) three days. I then pulled one of the Phal. out of the pot and showed him the dead roots and what sunburned leaves looked like. He asked what he should do. He really seemed to want to do the right thing. I told him to get the plants out of the sun for starters and to take every single one of the plants out of those solid plastic pots and just throw them on a shaded wire shelf so that they could dry out. I told him he could just stack the pots beside the plants and when someone purchased these discounted plants, he/they could put the plant back into the pot. I said, alternatively, you could drill several holes in the bottom of each pot and then the water could at least drain away after watering. I asked if I had a card (always!) and promised to let me know what he was able to do. He said the store manager made him put the orchids out with the rest of the discounted (outside) plants and he knew he was doing wrong. He said he was going to take my card to the store manager and tell him what I had told him to do with the orchids. We'll see.
