I replied to your other thread. One thing I didn't mention is that a mounted Myrmecophila will likely need watering almost daily during warm weather, and several times a week during the winter.
Other people may be able to grow these in pots, but I failed that way several times.
My large seedling came with all the roots cut off like a flat-top haircut, so I suspect it was growing on a mount at the vendor's nursery.
Myrmecophilas survive prolonged drought, but not prolonged wet roots, unless the roots are fully out in the air. Some of them live in areas where daytime temperatures are quite warm in the winter, and there is no rain and no dew for many months. They don't grow in full sun in these areas, but under the canopy of deciduous trees.
Mine tried to grow after it arrived last summer. I had tied it to a piece of mesquite branch, but I didn't realize how much water it wanted. It made one weak new growth and no new roots. Then that growth died. Then it made another weak new growth, but no new roots. By then it was late fall. I decided to begin watering it every day, and on warm winter days I soaked it in a tub of water for hours. The second growth lived, but still no new roots.
When it began getting good and warm in my sunroom, a back bulb suddenly sprouted a new growth from pretty far up the pseudobulb, not from the usual spot on the rhizome. Then that new growth began making roots, which are now reaching all over the place. This new growth is already starting another new growth. This makes me think these plants may only sprout new growths from a potential growth point if it is exposed to the sun. The rhizome of my plant is on the branch, in shade.
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