Issues repotting cattleya
I recently bought a catt, and when the seller said it was overgrown, Heavens to murtagoyd, he meant it was overgrown. It was in a 3.5 inch pot, and it should be in a 6 very comfortably. My problem is, as many may guess, is that this pot is completely roots. They have wound round and round till there is only white roots showing when pulled it out of the pot. I know there is bark medium in the center, and I know it is best practice to take out the old medium, but I made an exception to that rule because this seemed like it was going to harm way to many roots. The medium did not seem like it was terribly decomposed. What i ended up doing was taking it out of the pot and directly putting it in a 6 inch pot because there was already a full pbulb growing outside of the pot with a lot of roots. its all potted up now with only about 3/4 of an inch of breathing room till it needs to be repotted again!
Did I do the right thing, if not what should i do?
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