Thanks for this post! 6 years back, when I got my second orchid- a phal type dendrobium from home depot, it was in this coconut husk thing. It died because it was in a pot, with this squished in it... I had no idea what it was, and thought it was just one slab of bark with the plant growing in it. anyways, it died, a few months after
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, but I always wondered what that was. oh, and the roots had pulled the sections together, so you could not get it off, and I guess the coconut was decintegrating on the inside
so thanks for the post!
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