My first attempt at a mount- let me know what you think!

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Hey everyone!

This brassavola nodosa x grandiflora was purchased in a tiny 2" black pot that overheated too much in bright sun for my liking.

So I decided to toss all the old bark media and try something new and unusual. I just wrapped the roots ina ball of sphagnum moss and tied it all up in a mesh that I got from a bag of oranges. It's nothing fancy!

I plan to let the sphagnum go bone dry, then dip it in water, then repeat. I'm hanging it in a south-facing window with full sun, shaded by an old translucent shower curtain.

I have been having reasonably good results growing several different types of orchids in pure sphagnum lately, and I am someone who forgets to water rather than someone who overwaters. The sphagnum moss is somewhat tight around the roots, but the sphagnum at the base of the growths is pretty loose and just held down by a loosely criss-crossed thread.

I can't wait for it to settle in and bloom for me, I've heard the nighttime fragrance is citrusy and simply divine!

Let me know what you think!! Does this even really count as being mounted? I am not sure.