Thank you! I have seen it said over and over again that overwatering is far worse for orchids than underwatering, so I have held off watering it again since I pulled it out of the non-draining ceramic pot. (I watered it lightly once before that the day I brought it home, because it was bone dry and had been sitting behind the service desk waiting to be thrown away for a couple of days! It was a 'rescue' from my place of employment.)
The condensation is visible at all times - it's one of the things I'm not experienced enough to know yet if it's normal or worrying! I know they like a consistently moist environment, but do not like to be too waterlogged. It's been over a week since I last watered and it has been sitting in a west/northwest facing window, getting lots of bright indirect light and a couple of hours of more direct light in the afternoon (there's a tree in the way so the whole window is not blasted with direct light, and the orchid lives in a more shadowy area of the windowsill during sunset, fyi.) It's also routinely in the 70s and 80s during the day where I live, and probably always between 70-75 in my house. Given that information, does that still seem normal that the inside of the pot has moisture like that, or ought I be concerned?
(And thank you for the advice backing up my initial thought that I definitely should not water it while it's wet like this.)






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