Orchids from Thailand arrived! Need a lot of Help!
The souvenir of our Thailand trip last December arrived! They’re 20 orchids from Phrao Orchids nursery in Chiang Mai! When my husband and I went to their shop, we were like kids in the candy store and wanted everything! At last we picked up these 20 “exotic” ones that we had never seen or heard of. When the nursery attended the POE last weekend, they kindly brought our batch along and shipped to us after the show.
I got home tonight and spent a few hours finding temporary settings for them so they can recover from the long trip as soon as possible. I brought out all the glass vases I have. Some of them have to share the vase. For three of them, I really don’t have proper containers so they are staying in cups with small amount of moss.
I would love a lot of suggestions from you! There are some of my questions:
1. For the ones in the vases, can I grow them like that? For the ones with long roots, I’m afraid that the humidity (40%-60%) in the room is not high enough and I don’t have time to water them often.
2. Is it ok to let the ones with small pots or the mounted ones share the vase? They don’t really touch the bottom of the vases. I will grow them under the lights so they will get the light from above. I also hope that sharing vases helps increase humidity.
3. For the two in the white cups and the one in pink pot, I will have to buy the pots. What size of the pots should I get? What’s the potting mix I should use?
4. The Bulb. Hybrid was likely mounted before it was shipped because it’s very flat. I don’t have any thing to mount it on, at least for one to two weeks. I put it on top of the clay dish that came with a clay pot and have a layer of moss on the dish touching the roots. Should I try to mount it or pot it? Will the current setting good for it long term?
5. I don’t know much about their ideal growing conditions. Any information is welcome.
It’s such a big project! I will update with you when I make any progress!
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