shade for phals

[Lagoon]

I don't cringe at this at all. I grow mine the same as you dave, In the summer time .... They get soaked down my rains and even the mommies hose. Sometimes I will tip out the excess water, other times I don't, just allow the breezes of summer to dry them all out.

I don't plant any of my phals at angle altho' many will just grow that way naturally - Fun stuff these orchids are

[Shadow]

Most of my phals grow at an angle by themselves too

[smartie2000]

Some go naturally into a angle because they are reaching towards light.
I find water drains off phals fast anyways so I pot mine all upright

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by Tindomul1of9

Well I gotta tell you that my happiest Phals are those that are inside my Vivariums where humidity is way high and lighting is still strong enough to tinge them red, just a little bit.

Tindo, what phals in particular have you got in your vivs?

[Shadow]

Originally Posted by smartie2000

I find water drains off phals fast anyways so I pot mine all upright

Not all of them. I had a phal whose leaves had "pockets" near the stem and it was very difficult to water it. It was variegated Queen Beer. One day the God of Water took over and I couldn't save it from rot. It was a beautiful plant with amazing leaves.

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by Shadow

Not all of them. I had a phal whose leaves had "pockets" near the stem and it was very difficult to water it. It was variegated Queen Beer. One day the God of Water took over and I couldn't save it from rot. It was a beautiful plant with amazing leaves.

Did you try to get it to keiki? I'm still waiting with my generic NOID white phal that got crown rot.. I put a whole lot of Mancozeb fungicide paste in the crown after scraping out the gunk and repotted it into sphag. moss but so far nothing

[Shadow]

Originally Posted by daemondamian

Did you try to get it to keiki? I'm still waiting with my generic NOID white phal that got crown rot.. I put a whole lot of Mancozeb fungicide paste in the crown after scraping out the gunk and repotted it into sphag. moss but so far nothing

It wasn't crown rot. It was a rot of the whole plant. It was dead in few days.

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by Shadow

It wasn't crown rot. It was a rot of the whole plant. It was dead in few days.

Bummer! Yes crown root IME seems to be a much slower languishing death

[smartie2000]

My mom managed to kill a phal by rot and it was a pretty spotted one that was not a Noid. Why don't the noids die instead. But that was the only of a phal rot in my life

[justatypn]

It was variegated Queen Beer.

Beer...there's your sign