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Originally Posted by dragom
Being in Indiana everything has to come in during the winter months but I do plan on getting it outside during the summer months. I will have to take a picture of what I have it in right now. Being new you guys will have to fill me in on some of the terms like what is mounted??
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Mine stays outside until night temps get down to about 50F.
Since most orchids we grow are epiphytes (growing on trees and branches, not in the soil), putting them in a pot is really for our convenience - not the plant's. The chunky bark medium kind of simulates a moist tree branch. Some try to emulate nature by letting the plant grow on a stick, log, slab of bark from a cork oak, cedar planks, driftwood, and lots of man made materials. The plant is "mounted" onto the piece of bark by wrapping or tying it. The roots will attach themselves over time, growing just like they do in the wild - not in a pot, but on a tree!
Some folks that live in tropical areas can mount orchids to trees in their yards. It freezes here so a portable mount allows me to bring it inside over the winter.
Some orchids take to mounts better than others. Some orchids prefer them as they grow somewhere in nature where it dries very quickly. B. nodosa is one of these that does well mounted. That's why so many people asked this question, it's commonly sold mounted.
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