Phal in water culture..

[Helene]

I think many orchids are pretty adaptable, especially hybrid phalaenopsis (havent tried doing this to other orchids). But this is just my opinion, and I'm still a newbie.
Started caring for my orchids a year, maybe two years ago. Before that they had all been kinda neglected, or, my hubby watered them. The lazy way; fill the pot with water, wait until its empty (or almost empty), fill it again- repeat. Result? Well, some drowned, and got rotten. But: some adapted to this strange way of keeping them- and they started to grow lots of ariel roots- lol, poor thing, had to grow roots to get oxygen… and they turned sideways- like they do in nature.

I believe they can be grown in different ways, but it depends on where you are growing them, what works for one person may not work for another person, because of different evironment. Anyway, they will adapt, but some plants do better with change than others. I try to see how the plant respond, and if it looks happy- then it's all good. If it doesn't look happy; well, to be honest- then I panic and try to fix whatever I did to make it unhappy

One day I discovered these roots, and these strange and kinda funny-looking plants- and I just fell in love. That was when I started caring for them, the oldest plant is from 2008.

Anyway- I'm in project "repot the poor thing" and it seems like they adapted well- both to the horrible water on/off and to the new environment after I started caring for them.

Last year:



This is what it looked like after the abuse for years, it just looks crazy (I do love it, though). This is after I started caring for it, but before I had the guts to try repotting.


I finally broke the pot, and started on those roots…

Well, took some time…


New place, didn't take long to respond to that


But then, when I gave it a bath:


I was thinking:
Should I pot it in a big pot and give it bark, or maybe fill this glasspot with leca/water or something like that? And give it a try? It does seems to enjoy being in water, so maybe?

Thinking the same about this:




Oh, yeah- I do talk a lot, sorry about that

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Some people who root cuttings of other kinds of plants in jars of water will run plastic tubing from an aquarium air pump to an airstone in the jar and run the air pump all the time. This keeps the water better oxygenated and inhibits a lot of rot organisms.

[Helene]

I like that, estación
Hmm, more ideas in my head, my hubby gonna kill me one day Lol, not really though, he's gonna shake his head while mumbling something about me and all my crazy ideas.
(And then he's gonna help me go from an idea to reality that's why I love him )

Air pump. Hmm- a wall with cork, and like an aquarium in the bottom- misting. Orchids that like humidity on one wall.

Lol, dont even get me started, have so many ideas I have to consider- before I do anything. So I'm just annoying people here with all my talking (writing) while I consider what to do.


Get to many ideas from reading this forum, though…

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