You have a lot of flowers. I'd have a houseful of dead flowers if I tried that. (I'm awful at keeping plants alive.)
Though, with your one orchid (the leopard orchid), over watering plants at stores is, I think, extremely common. When I worked int he Lawn & Garden section of a Walmart years (and years) ago, in the summer every plant got watered every day. In fact, the manager expected us to use an insanely huge amount of water on each plant. (I'll put it this way... when we peaked in the number of plants we had, usually in late May or early June, one guy got "watering duty." He was supposed to spend his entire 8 hour shift watering the plants. Some of them were trees and probably didn't mind all the water, but a lot of the flowers started dying after a few weeks of this treatment. (My manager had this weird theory... if the plant had dry soil, then water wouldn't absorb into dry soil and the plant would die, so that's why everything was constantly being watered.)
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Though, with your one orchid (the leopard orchid), over watering plants at stores is, I think, extremely common. When I worked int he Lawn & Garden section of a Walmart years (and years) ago, in the summer every plant got watered every day. In fact, the manager expected us to use an insanely huge amount of water on each plant. (I'll put it this way... when we peaked in the number of plants we had, usually in late May or early June, one guy got "watering duty." He was supposed to spend his entire 8 hour shift watering the plants. Some of them were trees and probably didn't mind all the water, but a lot of the flowers started dying after a few weeks of this treatment.
(My manager had this weird theory... if the plant had dry soil, then water wouldn't absorb into dry soil and the plant would die, so that's why everything was constantly being watered.)
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