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Originally Posted by oregon woodsmoke
If there are no smaller pots inside and there is no drainage, those plants haven't been in there for long.
Myself, I would enjoy the arrangement for a week or so and then rip it apart and re-pot each plant. It's important to me to save my plants, more so than to save the flowers.
I'm very new to orchids and I've only re-potted one plant in bloom and it seems to be happy enough and still retains all the flowers. Handle the orchids gently and it might be possible to re-pot without losing the blooms. If you do lose the flowers, you have the happy plant to bloom again later.
That's exactly what I'm doing! I have a spritzer bottle and spray a fine mist on the plant many times a day. I'm also anticipating having to break it down into 4 plants (well, five if you include the extra decorative plant) but I doubt I'll do it in a week, unless the blooms start falling. I'm so curious as to what's under the decorative moss on top! I have dug down under it and there's a very firm root system (so firm that I first thought it was a pot.) The leaves look very healthy and the buds (41 in all, NOT including the open blooms, of which there are 20) look healthy.
How I want to pull the whole damn thing out of the bowl in one mass, just to examine it! But I will restrain myself and try to enjoy the flowers. If and when they begin to shrivel and fall precipitously, you can bet that I will be asking for more guidance.
I will explain my previous experience with a gifted orchid in another thread.
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My only other suggestion: when I am starting seeds, when the pot is still wet but the surface is getting dry, I spritz the surface with a spray bottle. That wets the surface without adding more water to the medium.
It would take a lot of care to spray the surface of the potting mix without getting water on the orchid leafs, but if you want to keep the arrangement, that might work.
I would guess that a mossy sort of potting soil in a ceramic bowl with no drainage is going to stay wet for a very long time.
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I have been doing exactly what you have suggested:
Misting it many times a day to boost the humidity. The moss is still damp, so I haven't watered it. Watering will also involve penetrating the layer of DECORATIVE moss atop of the predominantly moss medium it's in.
I doubt that I will break it apart within a week as the root system is VERY firm, there are a total of 41 buds, and 20 open blooms. My impulse is to yank the whole damn thing out of the pot to examine the root system, but I think that would be counter-productive. I'm trying to enjoy the blooms right now (after all, it IS a birthday gift) but I think I'm too impatient and curious. I may just call the florist to try to get more information.
I've had previous experience with a gifted orchid which I will discuss in another thread because it's an interesting experiment-in-progress. (These are my first experiences with orchids and I love both the plants and the challenge they present me.)
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