@brsucculents:
I got this plant back in about 1985. It was on a raft and already pretty big - probably 25 pseudobulbs. However, I didn't repot it or do much of anything to it - just left it alone and it got bigger and bigger. The raft it was on eventually rotted away completely, so that it was hanging just by the wires going directly through the plant itself. About three years ago, this situation became intolerable (to me, at least - the plant didn't seem to mind!), so I built the raft out of inch-square oak. I put a single layer of coarse shade cloth over the new raft, and humped up a small mound of sphagnum on top of the cloth. Then I simply laid the plant on top and re-hung it. It has really thrived since then! Interestingly, it doesn't seem to want to grow over the edges anymore, instead concentrating on growing up in the center, making a bigger and bigger mound of pseudobulbs. If I hadn't made the new raft, I think it would have formed a big "ball" of pseudobulbs, which would have been interesting, too, but I sure do like it this way!
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