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title: "I finallllly joined the orchid club!!!!! I’m so scared 😱 but excited…"
description: "I finallllly joined the orchid club!!!!! I’m so scared 😱 but excited at same time!! Y’all meeet Ophelia! #plants #swiftie"
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community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Jamie"
published: "2026-09-14T01:15:42.278207Z"
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# I finallllly joined the orchid club!!!!! I’m so scared 😱 but excited…

_Posted by Jamie on 2026-09-14_

I finallllly joined the orchid club!!!!! I’m so scared 😱 but excited at same time!! Y’all meeet Ophelia! #plants #swiftie

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## 3 comments

### Waspinator commented on 2026-09-14

There's nothing to fear! As long as you don't use ice cubes and keep the crown dry

### plantgeek commented on 2026-09-14

beware of the "death plug", oftentimes when you get them from places like grocery stores they have compacted peat around the center of the roots. you want to get that off asap. it probably already has rot and leaving the peat plug there will cause more rot. people will tell you not to repot while they're blooming but i do it all the time and i've never had any trouble with the blooms dying because of it 🤷‍♂️

#### Jamie replied on 2026-09-14

Oh ok. I definitely bought this at the grocery store lol I was planning on repotting it this weekend after it got acclimated to the space that I’m going to keep it in my home and then I was definitely planning on repotting in orchid bark

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