any other plants you wish to "experiment" with...i am always eager :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

:bowing:bowing:bowing:bowing Cymbidium godmother

That is just insane!!! :D

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I'm proud of this little fella right now, seems to be liking its new place and medium :)

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Barkeria lindleyana - it used to be mounted, but eventually the mount just disintegrated. I picked out the pieces, and the roots were in such a tight mass that I couldn't see an easy way to get another one to have any use. So I just put a zip tie through the mass of roots to have something to attach a hanger to, and it has continued to grow, bloom, make new growths. Barkerias don't seem to get particularly intimate with mounts. I have also placed them in plastic baskets with no medium, again just to have a way to hang them. Put them in pots, they die. After blooming, leaves are lost, the spike eventually dries up but I have learned (the hard way) not to cut it - the following year when the new growth and new spikes are established, I snap off the brittle part. But the old, leafless canes are the closest thing that it has to pseudobulbs, look dead but they aren't.

Roberta can probably tell you what genera this orchid is by the fat fleshy roots.
The roots pushed the plant up and blew out the side of its plastic pot.

-Keith

A Cymbidium of course... but I'm cheating, the string of photos of which this is a part does identify it as such. So no mystery there...:rofl:

But there aren't a lot of orchids that break a 1 gallon (4 l) pot in just a year. Yes you CAN grow - and also bloom - Cymbidiums in south Florida... you just have to have the right Cymbidiums for the environment.

?? I've never posted a photo of this plant. ??
Maybe you're thinking of Dirtycoconuts' plant. The root masses have a similar appearance, and both broke their pots.

-Keith

Did look the same as DC's photo. Sorry. Other Cymbidae such as Gramatophyllum likely can do that too. I am sure there are others... hint, don't put that one in the bedroom, it could grab you by the neck when you are asleep!:biggrin:

When watering in the greenhouse today, this plant (Rth. Psycho Bride) suddenly reminded me of this thread.

Psycho indeed! That one is taking over the place!

Yep. That qualifies!

Yup, very aptly named. I see why it stays in the greenhouse... wouldn't want to sleep next to it.

New growth on a mini catt
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Searching for the Sky!!!! They want to fly....

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4-month Catt repot.. Never seen roots growing this fast!

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That is a root machine! Don't put it in the bedroom, those roots might just grab you while you sleep...:roll: :scratchhead:

@roberta ... I sence your Halloween 🎃 mode already!!

Lc Loog Tone SD
 

after bloom roots of my Lc Loog Tone SD

These roots deserve to be shown. I take no credit, it's all this plant. My new digbyana. After a fresh repot and settling in for a bit it's starting to grow.

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Those roots are BEAUTIFUL! Promise of great things to come.

Nice. I wish my digbayana would take off in that fashion. It's been sulking for quite some time.

Okay, I may as well throw another one in too. I've always wondered what makes orchid roots grow straight up. High humidity? Moisture in the air? One would think they'd go toward moist media rather than away.

-Keith

Crowded, not a lot of room. Some things, like Ansellia africana and Den. speciosum do vertical roots just on general principles. If in a confined space, they capture detritus from the canopy in those "birds nest" roots. Den speciosum especially... it's a lithophyte, roots into cracks of the rocks to hold on, then vertical roots to capture nutrients.

K-Sci,

I like how you tease us by taking a picture of a plant with the tag in the photo, yet, placing the tag in such as way as we can only see the back side of it.

nice one keith. I have roots wanting to grow out of the pot like you and Sade but mine rarely grow straight up... They generally grow sideways, away from the light. My preferred theory is that they are growing in the direction of my desk, ie trying to reach me :lol:

I've got one really determined one, one root is beating the others by a fair margin by now. I wonder how long it will get?

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I have several Odontocidium Catatante who grow exactly like that. I think it has something to do with catching falling leaves, etc, to harvest nutrients in nature. Making like a little bird nest to capture debris. But I could be way off base. Can't remember where I heard/read it... maybe here.

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And it appears I didn't read far enough...forgot to look further or "turn the page" first.

Yes, like Roberta says. :biggrin:

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I have several Phals that do that "lets crawl away" root thing like ShadeFlower's. They appear to be begging for mounting, which is how I end up with more mounted plants than I want to care for. It's such a tease.

The yellow tag in the media is blank on both sides, but the one on a cable tie in the lower right says Oncidium Sphaceatum ‘Sunbeam’ AM/AOS.:biggrin:

-Keith


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Sentient plants. Hmm. :shock:

Well, you did say "appears".

The really odd thing about my Oncidium sphaceatum ‘Sunbeam’ is that there were no roots above of the media when I first got it. It has to be something in or about the environment.

Maybe they do this when they're too dry and the humidity is very high. This plant spent the summer outdoors in the Mississippi heat. It is in a basket filled with straight Ochiata and was watered 1-2x day. Perhaps it is putting them out because they did get watered well, but that doesn't explain why they went straight up rather than straight out.

-Keith

Posted a picture of this plant in the "Orchids in bloom" page of the forum. I gave a history of the plant in my care, and mentioned that I'd post a picture of the roots in this thread.

I posted this first picture several months ago when the roots were pushing on nicely, I'll post again here for reference.

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A root machine!

What kind of orchid is it?

Oncidium Witches jewel ivory lips.
I posted about it in the "orchids in bloom" thread.

Wow!! That's intense!

Not looking forward to repotting anything in this tray

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:shock::shock::shock::shock: :yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes:

bobcat, that is some seriously impressive root growth. Don't think I have seen anything as prolific but now it's stuck lol. How to free those roots...

Clawhammer, mastery at work. That is enviously beautiful. But I hear ya on repotting them. I had one attach itself to the wall recently. Had to pry the roots off before I could move the orchid. Yours look stuck all over

Good question. I've read plenty of posts about repotting that say "It is not super important to get all of the old media out of the roots, just get what you can". Does the same apply to removing the old pot out of the roots?
All joking aside...
I haven't decided yet whether to repot this year or not. The plant has been in that pot for 11 months now, and there is a lot of moss in that mix. As vigorous as that root system is, I assume that if I repot when the next new growth is rooting, it will replace what it loses when I free it from its current situation.

I'd just cut the pot to the extent that it can be done without slicing roots. Then repot into something larger. Then any new roots have an escape route, but you don't have to sacrifice the existing ones.

They say size doesn't matter, but it's a very big root, no? HAHAHAHAHA

Happy Friday!!!

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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Hahaha thank goodness I am a confident guy bc that is intimidating!!

great root Sade.

My aerides produces really thick ones and I showed it before when it was just waking up, now it is going into turbo mode (even if it is snail paced turbo mode :rofl:)

I know my camera overexposed this root, it looks like I pained it white, and it is hard to see what is going on. Like usual I am trying to get the latest root to grow down into the vase. My first attempt of causing an obstruction made the root grow up not down! So after painstakingly bending the root back down I hope this one doesn't decide to grow up again.

There is also a new nubbin poking out from the leaf axil on the left.

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Shade- that is a very clever idea!

if you are concerned you can also make a sling out of burlap or any organic cloth and drape it over the root and add a small and very light rock or something to gently weight the root down....then mist it many times a day....as it gets supple from the moisture and the gentle pulling will train it not to straighten back out.

avoid using nylons or anything that you dont want the root to attach to

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oh! i forgot, i came here to share roots


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