?? Please watch the video??

[Wynn Dee13]

I don't know what else to say except try it and you will find out it works and can be better for the plant. I don't think anything I say is going to change your minds. I think you guys are going to have to learn about it by experience. So I say why don't you try it?

[FairyInTheFlowers]

Originally Posted by Wynn Dee13

It is just like a Vanda that has lost its bottom leaves and grown more top leaves and roots over the years. You can then cut off the bottom leafless stem and old roots and plant the top part of the plant.

Okay, this is one of the statements that has driven me crazy. No, this is not just like a Vanda! Vandas that have long portions of leafless stems almost always have no living roots attached to the leafless part. This Phal, on the other hand, although it didn't have any leaves down there, had 80% of its healthy roots attached to it!

Originally Posted by Wynn Dee13

Many people cut off old senile roots.

True, except those weren't old senile roots, and most, if not nearly all appeared to be quite young and healthy.

[Wynn Dee13]

Originally Posted by TheBlazingAugust

I agree! Another thing that has been bugging me is how no thought has gone into that maybe there are other factors behind the reason why the plant appears to be unhealthy. I think that a plant with a root system that large should not look like that one did unless the environment or some other factor was unsuitable. I really don't see how a plant can look so nasty and have such awesome roots.

Nobody said that the roots were making that plant look the way it did. But just by looking at that video you can't tell 100% that those roots were perfectly healthy. She was trying to reinvigorate the plant. To get it to grow new healthier roots up by the leaves. Also unless you speak German how do you know her reasoning behind cutting those roots off? It seemed to me that she was explaining why the plant was struggling and why she cut the roots off. But since I don't know German I don't know what exactly she was saying.

[FairyInTheFlowers]

Originally Posted by Wynn Dee13

I don't think anything I say is going to change your minds.

Yeah, that's not going to happen, especially when you are advocating the removal of the majority of a plants healthy roots!

[Wynn Dee13]

How about this? You grow your plants the way you want and I will grow my plants the way I want.

[Call_Me_Bob]

Originally Posted by Wynn Dee13

Nobody said that the roots were making that plant look the way it did. But just by looking at that video you can't tell 100% that those roots were perfectly healthy. She was trying to reinvigorate the plant. To get it to grow new healthier roots up by the leaves. Also unless you speak German how do you know her reasoning behind cutting those roots off? It seemed to me that she was explaining why the plant was struggling and why she cut the roots off. But since I don't know German I don't know what exactly she was saying.

the roots may not have been 100% healthy, but there were enough healthy roots (even one healthy roots is worth saving!) that it shoudltn have just been hacked off!


the question that still hasnt been answered, that i am asking you (or anyone who cares to answer) is why cut off healthy roots?!?!

[Call_Me_Bob]

Originally Posted by Wynn Dee13

How about this? You grow your plants the way you want and I will grow my plants the way I want.

i dont know about anyone else, but above all, im here to learn, and id like to learn by hopefully getting a good answer to my question posted about

[FairyInTheFlowers]

Originally Posted by Wynn Dee13

How about this? You grow your plants the way you want and I will grow my plants the way I want.

I'm fine with that, but when someone goes saying that a certain method that not many agree with is the best way to go, well, that's when I speak up.

[Medelia]

Mira-Claude speaking (I forgot to log in and log her out)

I agree with Cody. That way to grow orchids make me shiver and not in a good way. Cutting the roots of an orchid is like ripping out a person's intestines... Would you like that? I don't think so.
Plus yes there is a chance you might actually help your plant grow, how I'm not sure, but I will give it a point.
But there is a better chance of damaging it further. Mostly if you do NOT know what you are doing. Which most people don't.
Advertising such a drastic way of doing it might discourage many people after they killed there plant. And let's not forget the set back most orchids will have. I personnaly prefer a slow growing plant to one that will grow like nuts after an undetermined rest time where I'd be shaking in my boots fearing for her death.
But as you said, grow your plants the way you like, I will grow mine in the way I feel is best for me!

PS: Cody I am happy you think the way I do. I would have rethought my offer otherwise. LOL!

[Call_Me_Bob]

Originally Posted by Medelia

Mira-Claude speaking (I forgot to log in and log her out)

I agree with Cody. That way to grow orchids make me shiver and not in a good way. Cutting the roots of an orchid is like ripping out a person's intestines... Would you like that? I don't think so.
Plus yes there is a chance you might actually help your plant grow, how I'm not sure, but I will give it a point.
But there is a better chance of damaging it further. Mostly if you do NOT know what you are doing. Which most people don't.
Advertising such a drastic way of doing it might discourage many people after they killed there plant. And let's not forget the set back most orchids will have. I personnaly prefer a slow growing plant to one that will grow like nuts after an undetermined rest time where I'd be shaking in my boots fearing for her death.
But as you said, grow your plants the way you like, I will grow mine in the way I feel is best for me!

PS: Cody I am happy you think the way I do. I would have rethought my offer otherwise. LOL!

well put! good comment about the intestines! i coudnt have said it better if i tried!