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12-11-2021, 05:23 PM
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Haha that's where I got this babe! I didn't want to buy the other supplies because I thought particle board could work and my husband can cut just about anything using it....
Do you have a good tutorial video on mounting you could share please?
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Just to emphasize the point, I am a woodworker by hobby and a former cabinet maker. Particle board is just that: particles of wood held together with glue and resin. Water will break down the adhesives and the board will expand like a sponge and fall apart quickly. Solid hard woods and their bark is much more stable and can provide the orchid with years worth of support. |
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12-11-2021, 06:41 PM
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Do you have a humid greenhouse? Dendrochilums need to stay quite wet. I don't think most people could keep one alive mounted in a house.
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12-11-2021, 06:49 PM
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Do you have a humid greenhouse? Dendrochilums need to stay quite wet. I don't think most people could keep one alive mounted in a house.
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I agree.... I would personally be inclined to coax it into a pot or basket with fairly loose sphagnum... All roots might not get into the medium, but I think that laying mostly horizontally, the majority would do fine and it will grow better.
If this was one of Andy's Open House specials, he probably whacked off a piece of a large, unruly plant that had growths outside the pot. |
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12-11-2021, 06:51 PM
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You could also use a large shallow plastic food storage container.
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12-11-2021, 07:49 PM
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Andy grows almost everything on a mount. That is 'his thing' (company used to be known as Andy on a Stick).
Dendrochilums should be grown in pots, unless you have an extremely humid environment.
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12-11-2021, 08:01 PM
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I'm not so sure that even Andy grows that many Dendrochilum mounted... some are, but he has others in baskets in sphag. Sopping wet.
Looking at the photo, I suspect that it was potted/basket, outgrew it and the "outliers" clipped off for sale as Open House specials. Seen many examples of many species in that situation... he doesn't have to pot/ mount them, sells for very reasonable prices since they aren't established. I have gotten some terrific plants that way but they do need a little TLC.
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12-11-2021, 09:26 PM
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OK you all have convinced me to forget about mounting. Let me find a creative way to pot up this long, draping skinny thing haha.
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12-11-2021, 09:58 PM
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OK prep work started.
Roberta is right one bunch is made up of five or six pieces wrapped together.
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12-11-2021, 10:14 PM
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OK prep work started.
Roberta is right one bunch is made up of five or six pieces wrapped together.
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Should be easy. Wrap roots of each bit in sphagnum. Then you can group into a handful, pop into your pot and fill in with some more sphag. Done. Let it grow, let it grow, let it grow. 
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12-11-2021, 10:59 PM
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Should be easy. Wrap roots of each bit in sphagnum. Then you can group into a handful, pop into your pot and fill in with some more sphag. Done. Let it grow, let it grow, let it grow.
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So the new roots know the go downwards from now on? I am nervous about how fragile these roots seem. |
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