Bending creeping/climbing plants to fit
How do you do it?
I have heard talk of bending plants with lengthy growth habits to fit inside pots or baskets, but I've never quite understood how it is achieved. My guess is that it's effected by training the new rhizome/bulbs into the desired direction similarly to how one might train a spike, but I've yet to see it demonstrated. I ask because I just bought a Coelogyne pandurata, which I suspect will be trouble in that regard (its 3 bulbs are already 5 and 6 cm apart and the new growth is aiming off in the same direction).
I will occasionally poke at the new growths on some of my Cattleyas to judge their pliability, but the verdict is always "too stiff" or "too fragile". I had minor success with a small Bulbophyllum, but that one rambled too much for such efforts to be worthwhile.
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