SP, I trust your growing more than most on here, you have the nicest catts on OB but reading over this post and taking more of a distant approach to giving advice in future I can see how confusing trying to give advice can be...
Everyone has their own way of doing things and if we all grow orchids successfully then they are all good but could be very different from each other. As I have learnt there are far more ways to growing orchids than the way we have learnt to do it. I think that is the most important thing I have leant and it is not beneficial to think everything else is wrong.
I keep some of my recovery catts so wet water is dripping off them... It works for me, you know the saying you cannot overwater a mounted orchid so my trick to recovery is max hydration combined with max aeration. That is along with heat (heat dries) the hardest thing to achieve on a continuous cycle but if I can get it right then the orchid recovers. If not it declines.
To me discussing whether sphagnum works or not is not the most pressing point. The most pressing point is that this orchid has not done well for 5 years already and there is no point recovering it if the problem keeps happening year after year. The cause for all the roots having died off in such a drastic and repeated way by the stunted look of the orchid is what is the issue.
I'd bin this one, it's worse than anything you could buy at a shop. Could an experienced grower recover it? Probably, but even to an experienced grower I would guess this one would be challenging! It really has gone through a bit.
Last edited by Shadeflower; 07-07-2021 at 06:33 PM..
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