Help with Stanhopea potting
Has anyone used bark with their Stanhopeas successfully?
I need some advice for the next time I repot my Stanhopea saccata. I have had it since it was a large seedling in 2017 and have been repotting annually in sphagnum moss. This year it was a mess. It grows like crazy and the root system was incredible- huge and very healthy. So clearly it likes the constantly damp moss environment which gets watered daily. Trying to get the moss out from those super fragile roots was the issue. I damaged probably 75%+ of the roots. Hopefully it bounces back. If I use moss, potting on/up with out removing the moss is not an option. Moss turns into nasty, compact sludge in my climate within a year. I would love to be able to use some bark but I have heard rumors that Stans really don’t like. I’m also concerned about the spikes pushing through all that. So, has anyone used bark before and had equally good results as sphag?
I put it back in a larger basket, placed as deep as the root system would allow, but I would like a better plan for next year. Here are some pics from 2017 and a current one
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