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05-17-2022, 09:17 AM
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Don’t tempt me! Or I might just have to turn the basement into an orchidarium like clawhammer!
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I endorse that solution!
When I repot a catt with a lot of air roots, I make a "nest" with them on the top of the media by wrapping them around the plant while trying not to break anything. Tidies things up and allows the roots to do their thing, at least until new roots take over. |
05-17-2022, 09:31 AM
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I also vote for a full-basement orchidarium! Go big or go home!
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05-17-2022, 01:04 PM
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I also vote for a full-basement orchidarium! Go big or go home!
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05-24-2022, 08:09 AM
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Nice!
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a well trained samurai is always nice to start with 
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O.C.D. "Orchid Collecting Dysfunction"
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06-13-2022, 08:23 PM
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I was trying to guide it into a new pot. Sort of working... Surprising because most of my cattleyas hate pots and try to escape them.
As for the dying, rootless parkinsonianums..., I threw one in a cup of water, and I wrapped the other one in thick shagnum with a water soak every day. They are now coming back from the brink of death! They really do like to be soaking wet.
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06-14-2022, 12:21 AM
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Cattleya maxima
This is the highland form of Cattleya maxima. It is more compact than the lowland form, has smaller but more colorful flowers, and also has enough cold tolerance to live outside at my house. (The lowland form definitely needs a greenhouse where I live) And it is a root machine.
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06-14-2022, 12:29 AM
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Phalaenopsis hygrochila (Hygrochilus parishii)
It is now classified as a Phalaenopsis but doesn't grow like one. It still looks like a Vanda, and grows cool - on my patio. With very robust roots. This is one that the taxonomists have had trouble with for awhile... it was Vandopsis parishii (one of the parents of Vandopirea Little one which is now Phalaenopsis Little one), then it was in the monotypic genus Hygrochilus, now lumped into Phalaenopsis. Whatever... And it is fragrant.
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06-14-2022, 01:38 AM
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roots. do you ever notice how they smell? yes I like the smell of roots too
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