just a noid keiki of a phal type den

[johnblagg]

I have been watching this one grow for 2 months and decided to take it off today and try growing it as a hanging plant on a wire with no medium at all ....

will be using a little better wire thatn this but her is the start of this experiment.

[Gin]

really a nice baby, looks very healthy ..

[RosieC]

Interesting idea. Would love to see how it turns out.

[Call_Me_Bob]

thats is a big baby! let us know how its works

[johnblagg]

Took a pic today looks like she is happy so far hanging on the wire and getting spritzed two or three times a day .....and outside as well no special anything except while it was very very dry and low humidity I did dunk her in a bucket a few mins each day

[RosieC]

Roots are looking good John

[johnblagg]

Thanks Rosie it is doing pretty good for a bare root plant hanging outside on a wire I think it may work ...But LOl Im going to have a problem when it gets top heavy and will have to use a better mounting wire to hold it upright,Right now it is nothing but a couple of twist ties holding it since I was waiting to see how it would do.

Did not want to kill it if it did not work so it is not permenant yet....right now she could be popped into hydrotron in a flash if the roots start acting like they are unhappy

[RosieC]

Well they don't look like they need popping in anything, I can see that some older roots look like they've started up new tips so it must be happy.

I had some nice new roots like that (though not as many) starting on a developing new cane just over a week ago... just got home after a vacation to find that something has eaten them I had put it on the greenhouse floor to reduce the light while I was away (and couldn't water) and it seems something has got in it... at least hanging where yours is the slugs are less likely to get in!

[johnblagg]

aww I hate when that happens ...you know that what they call pill bugs or roly polyies will eat roots like crazy and the love to live down at the floor.

Oh they call them sow bugs too.I hate them hard to get rid of actually related to crayfish and have gills so they like damp wet spots....under bricks and concrete blocks especially.

[RosieC]

Yeah, we commonly call them woodlice in the UK but I've just looked up Sow Bugs and they are the same thing. There is a common science experiment in high school where you put them in a tray with dry, damp and wet compartments and watch them all make their way out of the wet and the dry areas and in to the damp area. Didn't know that about crayfish being related to them but can see the similarity.

We have masses and masses of them in our compost heap but we leave them be there as they help break down the stuff we put in. That's not close to the greenhouse though but I think the things are everywhere.

Lastnight when I watered some of my orchids which had been on the floor I soaked them right over the top of the medium and lots of things including mini slugs and snails, a centipead on one, and lots of tiny woodlice on everything came crawling to the surface where I fished out everything I could see