How do you grow your climbing Coelogynes?

[Ray]

Originally Posted by varda.elentari

Interesting! So you're growing them only on the poles, no media basket underneath?

Correct.

Originally Posted by Lil Duck

I use moss poles from OrchidBox.io for my climbing aroids, I like these better than the coco coir poles because coco coir doesn’t hold water. They’re a bit pricey but they look nice and are very sturdy, they have multiple sizes and colors available. Because Coelogynes are quite water intensive orchids I would use a sphagnum moss pole rather than a coco coir based one.

I agree, For stuff like tolumnias, I have always done better with a virgin bark slab or driftwood, so thought I'd give the coir pole a try. For other stuff, I'd definitely go for the moss-covered version.