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Originally Posted by Rachael833
Its in a plastic container with wood chipping and i believe some foam? What it came in from the shop. I just allow water to run through the plastic pot then put it back in the pink one so it isn't sat in water. Is this right?
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Sounds fine. Personally when I buy an orchid, I repot it, but what I do isn't to everyone's taste. I also pot phals in coarse bark, 2" lumps, no moss or anything fine.
The reasoning is this. Over watering kills way more phals than underwatering. I had one that was a bit ropey, and I binned it in the garage into the compost bin, which was full of dry paper and card.
8 weeks later it was still green, and instead of it going on the compost with the rubbish, I potted it up. It's doing fine.
Coarse bark simply can't hold water between the chunks, so it's impossible to overwater.
Again, a lot of people don't agree with me, but I like to pot them up in wide, shallow containers. I make my own, since I can't buy them anywhere, and mine are 35 cm wide and about 5-6 inches deep. I look at the cramped roots in those tiny orchid pots, and I just think it's wrong.
You basically have to find your own way in all this. What works for one person won't always work for others. Bark means watering more often, and some people just don't want the fag of watering every day in the summer. It doesn't bother me.
Just make sure that whatever you pot it in, the water and air passes thru fast and easily.
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