Ohhhh, forbidden root porn!!!!

:whew

I always like when the roots are trying to go back to the pot. Makes it a mess to repot, but I think it means they like the media. I pot a lot in net pots lined with palm fiber to keep the media in, and then 50/50 medium bark/large perlite.

https://i.imgur.com/C4LTG67.jpg

When the roots do that, I solve the "repotting problem" by not doing it. Roots are getting what they want, I'm inclined to not to change it.

Nice! I'm with Roberta on that one. I would just plunk it into another pot when it outgrows this one!

That plant says There's no place like home. :biggrin: And nice seeing you here again Accetobe! I think I haven't seen you here again since my lurking days. :biggrin:

Hi!
I don't know whether this pic's presentable enough for this thread but it surely made my day!
I thought this phal was suffering after repotting as i only saw the blackened roots through the pot and they were always soggy. So i decided i just HAD TO take a peek at what's inside the pot even though it's developing a bud right now.. You can imagine my surprise finding all these green tips instead of a massive root rot :banana:

[IMG]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3175585a_n.jpgIMG_20210812_170612 by Maria Csanádi, on Flickr[/IMG]

Those are beautiful roots! And certainly belong in the thread.

Wow, I can't believe someone actually remembers me - certainly I was on OSF more than here - but from what I understand that underwent an untimely demise. Glad to be back. Doing the whole parent thing, and started a business, so the orchids took a back burner. Collection went from like a 1000 down to about 75 or so, and reduced from a greenhouse plus a lot of outdoor benches to only 2 outdoor benches and a couple "easy" growers here in San Diego like anceps. I've been expanding a little back into some of the more interesting easy species I used to love (coelia bella, some cyrtochilums). During 2020, I went to Andy's open houses, and never left their empty handed .
Those were the first orchids I had bought in about 10 years.

Lucky for me, but unluckily for my orchids, expecting another kid in January.

Ha! I started lurking here in 2007, had been casually getting into more than a few phals here around 2001 when youngest daughter left for college. My house was a jungle when I started having kids, then all plants got sidelined until they were late teens. You'll be surprised how your plants exponentially explode again once they've flown the coop. :rofl:

One of the things I remember about you (being fairly new to orchids) was you always had all these orchids I'd never heard of, with names I couldn't pronounce or spell. A tough learning curve for me, and I still haven't caught up... :biggrin: