acquired a free Phal today...need help, please

[RosieC]

I have no experience of keiki's so I have a question of the back of this thread.

When potting up a keiki like this one what do you do with the existing roots?

I've read a lot about how arial roots on phals should NOT be planted into medium as they will rot. What I've read said that arial roots have a different outer coating and they should not be put under the medium. (My mum also tried tucking the arial roots of her Phal into the medium and they rotted.)

So do you just place it on top of the medium leaving the roots out (hoping it will then grow other roots into the medium, or DO you bury the roots?