"GrlIntrpted" spaketh thusly:

Of course not. But I'm just surprised that volcanic lava rock is not
too rough for orchid roots. I held the rocks in my hands, they're pretty
rough, uneven, and I thought that they'd surely damage the orchid roots,
but apparently not.

Not at all. I'm sure someone here will remember the names
involved, but there was a grower (Bob Gordon?) who postulated that, given
the chance, orchids would grow just fine in broken glass. The next time he
came around to give another talk to that society, someone had done just
that- grown an orchid in potted broken glass.

It's a matter of rate, after all; a piece of paper can lacerate
your finger if done correctly, while a slug can crawl over a razor's edge
without harm.

Or, as Mel Brooks put it, "Tragedy is if I get a paper cut on my
finger. Comedy is if you fall into an open sewer and die."

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