Vandas in Glass Vases

[bil]

Originally Posted by trdyl

So far a Neostylis Lou Sneary and a Neofinetia falcata Otomemaru(bean leaf) are doing great along with my Vanda species and hybrids. My Neofinetia falcata shutennou and Manjushage have stunted leaves.


Cattleya warscewiczii may do well but most do great in semihydroponics.

My Tolumnias seem to be perking up in vase culture.

Naked vase or with inert media?

[trdyl]

Originally Posted by bil

Naked vase or with inert media?

Most my plants are in baskets with inert media such as Ecoweb or LECA.

[Bud]

Originally Posted by bil

Naked vase or with inert media?

right, naked vase and no inert media

-vase culture is the plant(in my case Vandas) inside the glass vase filled with water for 10 minutes every other day then remove the water and leave a bit of water at the bottom of the vase making sure the water not touching the roots but letting the humidity by evaporation get trapped in the glass to sustain the plant. (depends on the humidity in your environment=Florida, Hawaii and southern CA can hang heir Vandas bareroot outdoors=[as for you; south of Spain is warm and humid in the summer so you can hang them outdoors].... In the winter my environment is very dry so vase culture helps a lot=yet in the summer my environment is very humid and hot so I remove them from the vase and hang them outdoors)

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Originally Posted by trdyl

Most my plants are in baskets with inert media such as Ecoweb or LECA.

the topic is about Vandas in Glass Vases....or vase culture

[trdyl]

Originally Posted by Bud

the topic is about Vandas in Glass Vases....or vase culture

Yes it is. For vase culture the plant does not have to be bare root in a vase.

[bil]

Originally Posted by Bud

right, naked vase and no inert media

-vase culture is the plant(in my case Vandas) inside the glass vase filled with water for 10 minutes every other day then remove the water and leave a bit of water at the bottom of the vase making sure the water not touching the roots but letting the humidity by evaporation get trapped in the glass to sustain the plant. (depends on the humidity in your environment=Florida, Hawaii and southern CA can hang heir Vandas bareroot outdoors=[as for you; south of Spain is warm and humid in the summer so you can hang them outdoors].... In the winter my environment is very dry so vase culture helps a lot=yet in the summer my environment is very humid and hot so I remove them from the vase and hang them outdoors)[COLOR="Silver"]

Where I am, not so humid. In the summer, we hang out the washing, and it is dry in record time.

[Bud]

Originally Posted by trdyl

Yes it is. For vase culture the plant does not have to be bare root in a vase.

I disagree. What you have is a plant potted in a glass vase and what is weird is that it doesn't have holes so it will rot the roots. You substituted a glass vase for a plastic or clay pot. Media mix defeats the purpose of vase culture.
Vase culture= is water , glass vase and plant.

[Tommyr]

The 2 Vandas I got last fall were in vases over the winter. daily watering / soak for 1/2 hour. They are now outside under my back patio porch and get sprayed once to twice a day. They continue to put out new leaves!

[bil]

Interesting. The treatment here seems to vary massively, from a once a week soak to every day.

[Bud]

It depends on the humidity in your environment....if it is very dry then you need to soak everyday....if there is at least 50% humidity then once a week is fine. You can observe your plant then you will know that if leaves are wilting you need to soak it.

[Vanda lover]

Originally Posted by bil

Where I am, not so humid. In the summer, we hang out the washing, and it is dry in record time.

It's dry here is summer as well and I soak the vase vandas twice a week and mist in between. In the winter I only have to soak once a week and mist in between. Our humidity is very high during the winter.