Is it too late to repot these Catasetums ?

[SouthPark]

KG ...... you didn't start anything mate. Absolutely nothing wrong with experimenting for good intentions, and for the benefit of orchids and orchid growing. I commend you for it.

My tests were pretty much expected to be 'safe'. I had a very strong feeling (in advance of testing) that my catasetum plants wouldn't end up dying, or anything bad would happen to them. In fact, they've been doing incredibly well - thriving. Tough and rugged, except the only thing I had to really watch out for was - the spider mites (and also - importantly - to not over-water the spaghnum for those plants potted in 100% spaghnum).

I didn't 'buy into' the roots getting harmed by water in the first place (for catasetum coming out of true dormancy that is). And now, I'm very confident that watering catasetum roots 'early' (when coming out of dormancy) isn't going to set back catasetums, or to kill them etc.

The main thing is - maintain suitable growing temperatures, and avoid having the roots becoming starved of oxygen - which can happen if water in and around the roots is unable to move around at all (or very much - eg. roots too wet all or most of the time, or constantly very soggy media etc).