How to mount orchids?

[katfemme89]

OK, so I'm giving mounting orchids a whirl. The thing is, I have a few questions. I'm sure the answers lurk somewhere around this website, but I'm on dialup and I don't feel like spending a week trying to get all the pages to load to find them, lol.

SO. I found a piece of dead wood that had a cool shape (we were going to use it for firewood but I saved it), and I decided to put my orchids on it. So I got some strips of cloth (strips of old socks, to be exact lol) and lashed them to the log. I mist them generously every day, and the climate in my room is hot and humid in the daytime, and cool at night. So my first question is, will the orchids ever anchor themselves to the log, so that I don't have to have the strip of old socks holding them on? I want to eventually take that off. And my next question is, are they going to get enough nutrients from the log? Or should I put some kind of moss over them? Most of the mounts I've seen on here included some kind of moss in the mount.

So let the advice fly, people!