Australian terrestrials

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I have developed my own protocol where I do not pot the tuberoids based on time. I store them or pot them based on their stage of growth. If they do not develop roots, I keep them in storage. If they develop roots I pot them. If the leaves and roots have dried, they also go into storage ASAP after they’re cleaned and dried (inoculated with mycorrhizae before storage to ensure safety).

I’ve also found terrestrial tuberous orchids to like a lot of air to the tuberoids and roots. I pot some of them similarly to my epiphytes depending on the species.

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Different individuals within the same species can have wildly different times when they break dormancy and even different growth rates! This is why I learned not to pot according to time, but to growth stage. Just because it is “time” doesn’t mean the orchid’s awake! Also, just because one individual is awake doesn’t mean the other individual is awake too!