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Originally Posted by Ray
As useful as King's list is, Natasha is correct that the container isn't the only factor.
You need to consider the whole package and how they interact: the pot, the moisture-holding capacity of the medium components, how "open" the spaces are between particles of the medium (the overall "breathe-ability" of the mix), your growing conditions - temps and humidity control evaporation - and your watering tendencies.
Don't forget that orchids do most of their gas exchange through their roots, so allowing that to happen freely is important. Failure at that causes the roots to suffocate and die.
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Thank you, Ray! I'm going to get some books on the specific orchids I chose to raise at home, and am hoping that will also offer some more insight. Heh, I've always said I love a good challenge. . . seems like I've found one!
For now, my phal is in a terracotta orchid pot - and seems to be doing very well, but I would like exchange it for something that goes with the humidity pot a little better - but health over aesthetics is more important to me.
My husband is going to make me a glass orchid pot (or attempt to) and I've asked him to make me a clear one so that I can see the roots. . .I'm not sure how that will work - and making the glass ones will be a few months out as he works in his studio when the weather starts to get cold. (Glass studios are HOT)
She's in Miracle Grow's Phal orchid mix right now. . .very barky, but I would like to learn how to mix my own eventually.
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