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Today I’m going to begin a series of articles comparing SSL organizations to orchids. Why would I do this, you may ask? Well, because I must reiterate once again that I know nothing about soccer. However, I do know things about orchids. So here we go. I will begin the series highlighting my own organization, with the hope that somebody will tell me something interesting about theirs to give me something to work with next week.
Tokyo and Cairo are both dendrobium orchids, because the organization and the orchid happen to be my favorite. Within the dendrobium genus there’s over 1800 species, so there’s plenty of variety here to find the specific ones representative of our two teams.
For our minors squad in Cairo I have chosen dendrobium lindleyi (it used to be called dendrobium aggregatum and I highly doubt you care why it was changed but feel free to ask me if you do). Now, a little about d. lindleyi here. This is actually an orchid I have on my own porch. They are small, easy to underestimate, and unlike many orchids (especially the ones you usually see in stores) instead of making 2-3 big flowers, they make sprays of gorgeous little gold flowers, deep butter gold with a nice little gradient out to slightly paler yellow around the outsides. This orchid’s beauty comes from the way the many little flowers work together to create the overall effect, just like our little mummies in Cairo.
Tokyo, on the other hand, will be a dendrobium berry oda. This is a hybrid (fun fact - dendrobiums can only hybridize with other dendrobiums, which is not the case for several of the other genera of orchids). They flower a vibrant pink (we do love pink in Tokyo). Just like Tokyo, they do their best work after a little adversity. Not all orchids enjoy a winter period, but these do, meaning that at some point when the plant is not glowering, a cooler period with a little less watering will help it flower more vibrantly come spring. If you’re keeping it indoors, this doesn’t have to align with the actual seasons, you can control the periods during which the winter happens. You have to still be gentle with it, because it cannot survive freezing (just like a rebuild still needs a healthy influx of picks, berry oda requires a baseline level of warmth to survive). Once it comes out of the winter, it will bloom gloriously. (You hope, as long as you are treating it right. Much like a sim league team, orchids can be pretty individual and develop preferences and the best way to succeed is to pay a lot of attention and focus on the things you can tweak to give it the best opportunity to grow).
Okay that’s all I have to say about Tokyairo. Please tell me about your team’s personality and history so I can assign your org an orchidentity as well.
PS if this forum eats my post one more time I will cry.
Tokyo and Cairo are both dendrobium orchids, because the organization and the orchid happen to be my favorite. Within the dendrobium genus there’s over 1800 species, so there’s plenty of variety here to find the specific ones representative of our two teams.
For our minors squad in Cairo I have chosen dendrobium lindleyi (it used to be called dendrobium aggregatum and I highly doubt you care why it was changed but feel free to ask me if you do). Now, a little about d. lindleyi here. This is actually an orchid I have on my own porch. They are small, easy to underestimate, and unlike many orchids (especially the ones you usually see in stores) instead of making 2-3 big flowers, they make sprays of gorgeous little gold flowers, deep butter gold with a nice little gradient out to slightly paler yellow around the outsides. This orchid’s beauty comes from the way the many little flowers work together to create the overall effect, just like our little mummies in Cairo.
Tokyo, on the other hand, will be a dendrobium berry oda. This is a hybrid (fun fact - dendrobiums can only hybridize with other dendrobiums, which is not the case for several of the other genera of orchids). They flower a vibrant pink (we do love pink in Tokyo). Just like Tokyo, they do their best work after a little adversity. Not all orchids enjoy a winter period, but these do, meaning that at some point when the plant is not glowering, a cooler period with a little less watering will help it flower more vibrantly come spring. If you’re keeping it indoors, this doesn’t have to align with the actual seasons, you can control the periods during which the winter happens. You have to still be gentle with it, because it cannot survive freezing (just like a rebuild still needs a healthy influx of picks, berry oda requires a baseline level of warmth to survive). Once it comes out of the winter, it will bloom gloriously. (You hope, as long as you are treating it right. Much like a sim league team, orchids can be pretty individual and develop preferences and the best way to succeed is to pay a lot of attention and focus on the things you can tweak to give it the best opportunity to grow).
Okay that’s all I have to say about Tokyairo. Please tell me about your team’s personality and history so I can assign your org an orchidentity as well.
PS if this forum eats my post one more time I will cry.
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