dendrobium aggregatum question
Hi,
I'm sorry, I would attach a picture, but it's late and I don't have my camera handy. I have a slowly recovering small den aggragatum, that I almost killed...by the skin of my (and it's) teeth. It was one of those "bag-baby-package-orchids" from Lowes that I bought about 5-6 mo. ago. It seemed to be doing well, but I got an impression that I was to cease or slow down watering during the winter months (for dormacy), so I gave it water only once per mo. during that period (I'm assuming now that this doesn't apply to seedlings ??). Anyway, although the leaves still looked nice and healty, I decided to unpot it last mo. because it started feeling wobbly in the pot. When I took it out of the pot, there were NO healty roots....totally dried up. So, by the time I trimmed them off, of course, the poor little plant was totally rootless. I put it in a similar sphag n bag atmosphre.....my Exo Terra tank. The humidity in there is from 80-90% (or more). I have it just layed in a small pot on a thin layer of lightly damp sphag, and it has started growing tiny little roots. Almost minute, but still new roots. They have quite a bit of growing to do before I'll need to repot them permanently in some type of medium. That is my question to you: what type of medium do den aggregatum like best? I could pot it in S/H, a bark mixture, coconut husks/chips, coir, charcoal, sphag...etc...any or "all of the above"
I would appreciate your advice.....
Vicki
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