R. glauca bound to rot?

[CisTransGlauca]

Thanks for the replies.

Southpark: I do believe that the aeration of the pot is adequate. There´s drilled holes up the sides in the plastic pot, and some of the bark is substituted with large pieces from a broken terracotta pot and some washed charcoal bits. The air movement might be insufficient. There´s only a small draft - although be it cold draft - coming from the quite high windows I have in my bedroom. The temperature does not stray below 16 *C in the windowsill and in periods of cold weather I am careful when watering to not overwater. I have thought about installing a computer fan soldered to a variable power supply as to move air around gently.
I will hereby abbrevieate the genus name as Rl.! (Duly noted).

Leafmite: I have recently moved and the water at my new residency is quite hard. I don´t know if that will suffice, but I am constantly battling calcium salt residues in the bathroom w. acetic acid!

ArronOB: During the previous summer I kept this plant outside in a quite bright location. Previous to that I stripped the protective husk from recently developed pseudobulbs and during that time is when I got those aborted new growth. So you might just be right about your suspicion!

Thanks yet again. I will probably let it be as it is. If I change my mind I will probably split the plant in two and mount one part of it on a plank of teak/basket or on a cork slab.

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by CisTransGlauca

Leafmite: I have recently moved and the water at my new residency is quite hard. I don´t know if that will suffice, but I am constantly battling calcium salt residues in the bathroom w. acetic acid!

CTG --- also look into magnesium supplements. Every once in a while, eg. once a month application into the media - if it turns out that the regular water doesn't have a adequate level of magnesium.

I'm sure that whatever supplement I put into my media will still have some traces of whatever I put in. So whenever regular water is applied to my media (when I'm not adding supplements), I predict that at least some stuff hanging around in the media is still going to be available to some roots.

It doesn't look like your plant is in bad shape, so it looks like you can pretty much continue to do what you're doing. Definitely some gentle air-flow (anything but relatively still air) will be beneficial for the long haul.