This is crazy...movers packed my friends plants and...

So my friend moved in the fall. The movers, for unknown reasons, wrapped and packed her plants in boxes and loaded them onto a trailer. The boxes were being stored for 2-3 months while the house was being finished but she assumed the movers didn't know this. By the time that she realized it during the chaos of moving day, she just figured it was too late to retrieve them (no valuable plants) and let it go.

So, they finally move in months later, everything gets delivered etc and she is unpacking. She finds the plant box and pulls them out expecting them to be dead.

THEY WERE TOTALLY FINE!

No light or water for 2+ months and they were fine. I guess photosynthesis stopped so water needs were minimal. And likely moisture stayed trapped in the box so they didn't dry out. And it was a climate controlled storage facility so no extremes of heat or cold.

I skipped watering my plant wall for 3 weeks and had to cut off half the plants dry leaves. Go figure.