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Old 11-01-2023, 02:27 PM
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Hello all! I have some bareroot tolumnias. I would really love to pot them up to make it easier to keep them long term. Any thoughts or suggestions on it? When would be the best time to do it? What potting media? Thanks!
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Personally, I have never been able to grow them potted. Mounted, with no moss or nuthin on the roots, and they take off.
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I do have one, with very open medium, in a wood basket that is doing well. But short answer is, unless the roots can dry out very quickly between waterings, they're not going to be happy.
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While mounting is the preferred method I am having some success with embedding the roots in about a tablespoon of New Zealand tree fern and placing them in 2 inch clay pots with the pots placed on oversized clay saucers. If interested I can send you the details -Fred
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I am not an experienced grower but I have 4 Tolumnias, when I got them bare root, I mounted them but I was not able to water them every day, they were not doing well so I took them from the mount and potted them in semi-hydro with lava rock and after one month they are really doing well, I can see little bit growth in all of them when I potted them, one was blooming and another was in bud and they continue blooming. One month is not much time but I feel they will continue doing well.

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Old 11-03-2023, 02:54 PM
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I have several and potted them in 2" slotted orchid pots with some leca, bit of pumice and a couple pieces of bark. I set them in a rectangular plastic container with 3" sides in which i grow moss (collected outside) and keep the moss damp. I spritz the tolumnia media in the morning with the moss ( but not the leaves) and they grow great!
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My friend had plant sat them for me (she also keeps orchids) and she told me she had them in, what she calls, a humidity chamber. She placed them in ziploc bags when she brought them back and they have lived there since. They seem happy and are growing, but I would love them outside of the bags. I mean, since being in the bags, 2 of them have bloomed. I may try plantings of them in an open loose media and see what happens.
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I have several and potted them in 2" slotted orchid pots with some leca, bit of pumice and a couple pieces of bark. I set them in a rectangular plastic container with 3" sides in which i grow moss (collected outside) and keep the moss damp. I spritz the tolumnia media in the morning with the moss ( but not the leaves) and they grow great!
This sounds really interesting, would you mind posting a picture please?
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A member of our society wedges 4 wine corks into a small pot that just holds them, then pushes the Tolumnia into the central gap. Another excuse for collecting wine corks.
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