Cymbidium Aloifolium - PLEASE HELP WITH DIVISION???

[Cym Ladye]

It is fortunate you live in Florida, and can let mother nature provide an environment more natural to the native states from where aloifolium comes..

A few points:
1) I would pot it up immediately. Why wait? Your mix sounds OK but I would have used the lighter mix first recommended by Bud, and not added the water retentive Coco chips.
2) Pot it only in a pot large enough to hold the base of the plant. The recommendation of 5" sounds about right. Use a stake on each side of the division and tie the leaves to them. Pressing the mix down firmly around the division will help secure the plant.
3) Always gauge the pot size for a rootless Cym for just a bit bigger than the root ball, not the leaves. Yes, you will have to pot up, hopefully next year when the plant grows roots.
4) Lastly, there must be garden nurseries in your area other than Home Depot, which is never known for adequate supplies applicable for orchid growing.

Cym Ladye

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Thanks very much CymLadye. Regarding the mix, it is pretty much exactly as Bud recommended, my Dendro mix contains charcoal, perlite, and just few coco chips. The amount of coco chips in the mix I made is maybe some 5% if so. I did add more perlite. As you can see from the pics I did pot it already, however I will have to find smaller pot for this to be placed into. I am living in the urban area, North Miami, Bal Harbor - there are really no nurseries and other home supply stores anywhere around. My orchid supply seller I drive to to get anything i need is close to Fort Lauderdale, some 40 minutes drive. All the nurseries in Miami are of course out of my urban neighrbrhood down south and it is even further than the one in Fort Lauderdale. I will try to look and if I do not find anything I will drive to Tom in Broward Orchid Supplies, and actually ask him to help me pot this correctly, one of the services he actually provides:-)