Please need opinion or advice: Repot Cattleyas, yes or no?

[SADE2020]

Originally Posted by estación seca

Orchids die if you fuss with the roots. Just leave them alone now. Learn to ignore the algae. It doesn't harm the plant at all.

Understood!!!

[Roberta]

But that one with the new root, pot now.

[SADE2020]

Originally Posted by estación seca

Orchids die if you fuss with the roots. Just leave them alone now. Learn to ignore the algae. It doesn't harm the plant at all.

Understood
Thank you for your comments.

[SADE2020]

Originally Posted by rbarata

I can see there's a tag with an ID. Do all of them have tags? What's written there?

This table is useful for species but may be of some help knowing the species behind the hybrids.

Dear @rbarata,

I have a question as to how to interpret this list that you kindly share with me. For example, if I have a Cattleya and it is a Hybrid of 3 species, among them 50% indicates that it blooms between December and April and then the rest of the% of the other two species are June-July, when is this hybrid supposed to flower? ? .... between December and July? ... or all year round? because although it is a hybrid, its flowering DNA has been altered.

I have marked in the list the Species of one of my hybrid.

Thanks!

[Roberta]

When a hybrid contains species that bloom at different times, it can choose one, the other, both (more than once), or some time in between. The percentages of the various species may be an indication of which is dominant, but since different functions are controlled by different genes, and a hybrid is a mix, the actual behavior or features of any sort can be from any of the ancestors. And something as complex as blooming is probably controlled by multiple genes. So... when will it bloom? When you see the flowers . When will it root? When you see them. It is quite unpredictable from the species composition, and the more complex the hybrid, the more that is the case.

[rbarata]

I have marked in the list the Species of one of my hybrid.

Do you want to share with us which species? Better yet...the hybrid name.

[Steve83]

I wouldn't disturb the moss or algae. I believe it's beneficial, and the plants don't mind. My plants take to white oak quickly.

oaklichen.jpg - Google Drive

[SADE2020]

Originally Posted by Roberta

But that one with the new root, pot now.

Ohh I miss this. Thanks Roberts

[SADE2020]

Originally Posted by Roberta

But that one with the new root, pot now.

Ohh I miss this. Thanks Roberta

[Orchidtinkerer]

I will just put in a vote for a repot too, not because there is a new root growing (although good as that is the indicator for others to repot) but because the media and even old roots are already disintegrating.
New roots or no new roots is irrelevant, I know some people religiously only repot when there is a new root and that is fine but I personally do not wait that long, if I had in the past I would have lost orchids I was able to save instead.

I will emphasise this again if the substrate is going bad, the orchid will not be happy and won't produce new roots. Only happy orchids produce new roots. Ie orchids that have been freed from their smelly old substrate and given a clean fresh new clean out around their feet.

You can wait and wait and wait and decide the orchid is not ready to be repotted as no new roots are forming and sometimes it will die which is out of our control or you can take matters in your own hand, give it a fresh substrate, encourage new roots to form and prevent the orchid from going downhill before it happens.
I routinely see both approaches being used. I am certainly more proactive. The worst that can happen is that an orchid gets set back a little from a rough repot but practice makes perfect and the more experienced the better one gets at it so there will be less repot stress every time.

The most annoying thing about growing orchids is watering and repotting. The good growers water regularly and repot when its needed, the bad growers water randomly and avoid repots.

You make your own conclusions