Is this a new idea???

[Charles]

Not knowing if anyone else has ever used this particular strategy for hanging orchids indoors, I would like to present this as a new idea and see if I am correct.

In any window used for orchid growing, there will be two areas for use. One is the sill. A shelf for potted orchids will stretch out along the width of the window and as high as an orchid will grow. The other useful area is vertical. If you use plant hangers, you can attach an orchid to each and perhaps another from the first below it.

I use two hangers at each side of the window and then buy a length of 1" plastic decorative chain from Home Depot or Lowes, Builder's Square, etc...

Take a link about 18" from the end and hook it through the support hanger. Droop the chain to the other main support hanger in the wall and let the remaining 18" or so hang down from there. Imagine hanging Christmas lights. Droopy. In this way, I can hang a hanging basket or pot with an unlimited placement. Each link in the chain is a hole that provides another anchored position for an orchid. Even when you hang a heavy plant in the center and create a sloping chain. I realize that a simple picture would have made this thread much shorter, but...

Let me know what you think..

[Shadow]

I think it is a great idea!

[Charles]

I was wondering if anyone else had heard of this?

[signin1234]

Interesting, I'm not sure though.

[Ray]

Not original, but a good idea, nonetheless.

[SouthPark]

Is it like the clothes-line method? Except the line is a linked chain, right? Sounds workable.

Originally Posted by Charles

1" plastic decorative chain from Home Depot or Lowes, Builder's Square, etc...

You mention 'plastic' chain. Probably better off going for high strength corrosion resistant metal chain. Maybe a plastic chain is much more prone to breaking under tension - and if U.V. does enough damage to it.

[DirtyCoconuts]

I do this. I think it’s a great idea.

I have been cautioned that you are exposing the lower plants to the runoff, and therefore all diseases and pathogens, of the above plants.

This is no concern to me as I grow my plants outside and use probiotics and they grow around a lot of other plants in nature and at my house

Just something to think about.


Also, SP is correct, that plastic chain is garbage. Use at lease double loop chain