Another question!
A few weeks ago I happened across a big blooming yellow noID vanda at Lowe's and promptly brought it home. It's my first bareroot baby, and only my second vanda ever (the other is a seedling).
I started out just spraying the roots 1-2x/day, but have since discovered it seems to really like soaking for an hour or two every 2-3 days in addition. I've read on other posts here that crown rot is typically not an issue with this as long as the plant is able to dry between soakings, and possibly because no one is submerging the plant all the way up to the top(?), even if some allow a few leaves to be underwater. But I'm having trouble figuring out how to balance this with mine, because it has a small basal keiki growing and several of the largest/healthiest roots of the mother plant are higher on the plant than the top of the keiki. In order to submerge all of the roots of the mother plant, the water would have to be probably 2-3 inches above the top of the keiki leaves. Thus far, I've avoided this for fear of causing crown rot issues in the keiki.
Should I not worry so much and go ahead and let the keiki be fully underwater? If I continue to keep the water level below the top of the keiki, any suggestions for getting more water to those top roots? I've been wrapping them in wet paper towels while I soak the rest of the plant but that's a bit time-consuming.
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Correction: I found the ID tag I forgot it once had! (Or rather, a picture of it!) It's a V. Fuchs Gold x V. denisoniana.
Soaking a Vanda (NoID) with a Basal Keiki - How Deep?!
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