All you have to do to pot this Brassia/brassidium is to get a 4 inch pot, carefully, tenderly, stuff all of the roots into it and pour some small bark in with them. Brassias do not like to live in too big a pot. The largest pot I would put it in is a 5 or 6 inch clay pot with medium to large bark for maximum drainage and air movement in the media. Most oncidium alliance orchids don't like their roots to be messed with and do not like to remain soggy. Once the flowers are finished blooming, it needs a rest. Not much water at all. Close to drought conditions. Once you see new growth at the base of the pbulbs, then start to water it. Sparingly at first then as the new growth gets longer, water it more frequently. Use a 20-20-20 fertilizer on it at 1/4 strength until the new growth has matured then switch to a bloom booster fertilizer every other watering. When you see a spike starting to grow, stop feeding it all together until the next time it starts new growth. If you want more plants, then don't feed it bloom booster. Keep feeding it 20-20-20. To keep the plant from falling over, once you pot it in it's new small home, place this pot into a larger clay pot with gravel around the outside of the smaller pot to stabilize it. Most of my larger oncidiums, burragearas, brassias, and brassidiums are in small pots inside larger pots for stability. This may be an oncidium sphacelatum judging by the long pbulbs. My flowers are a light whitish green with dark brown splotches. Last flowering it had 125 flowers on a 10 pbulb plant. Please keep us informed on your orchid.
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