Root porn!!

[RJSquirrel]

left the sphagnum balls they came planted in alone and planted them over winter in net baskets inside a larger air cone type pot inside a larger clay pot..the clay adds weight and keeps em from falling over. Can always drop pot them in larger container without ever touching the roots

[DirtyCoconuts]

its rude to look up an orchid's pot like that!
lol

[RJSquirrel]

it is Root Porn!!!

[isurus79]

[RJSquirrel]

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[isurus79]

Like delicious noodles!

[DirtyCoconuts]

thanks Stephen! now i want ramen

[RJSquirrel]

Ill get out the kelpak fish sauce and you can go ahead and take a bite.

I put that **** on everything

[Roberta]

Longest root is a bit over 3 1/2 feet long (1.1 m) Lots of nice green root tips. Nothing at all in the basket, it just serves to hang the plant and hold it up. (There was some sphagnum, but that part of the base of the plant dried up and broke off, all the roots are running free) This grows on my patio - watered every day, functionally it's a cool-growing Vanda whatever the taxonomists want to call it. Spike developing nicely, flowers in another month or so.

Plant has a modest horizontal footprint, but needs a tall space to contain it - add the plant and spike to the root length, and it needs at least 5 feet (1.5 m) of vertical space.

[DirtyCoconuts]

that's looking like a Florida vanda, Robeta!!! nice

the 'naked vanda on a hook' is the only way to grow them here and the vertical foot print is significant!!