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Old 02-16-2021, 01:46 PM
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Ah, yes, now is the optimal time to repot. Try to put it in fairly dry media, so the roots are encouraged to grow. From what I've read, if you have a water source away from the media, under the pot, the humidity gradient will stimulate root growth downwards.

And then make sure you don't actually start watering until the new growth is fairly large -- or the mother bulb is fairly wrinkled.

An aside: would this qualify as a "keiki"? or is the term reserved for only a few genera of orchids?
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