What is you favorite material to mount with and where did you get it?

[Magnus A]

Originally Posted by Cowboys East

Hey,
Magnus have you ever had to remove an established orchid from Epiweb for any reason? Pest, disease, dead roots, or something like that. I know it is an attractive media for things like bulbos but I wonder how the roots on my species Phals would take to it. By the way Magnus, please post some more pictures of your vivarium (orchidarium). I love the utilitarian look you got going. It is inspiring for us novice orchid growers.
Neil

Neil

No I have never removed a plant from Epiweb and it is more or less impossibly!
To divide a plant cut the slab in half and glue new material to the halfes.
If the plant outgrows the mount glue it and the slab
on a bigger slab.

And for pictures on my vivarium there are some coming in the future, I hope. I have rebuilt every on of my three vivariums and it took much longer time than planed due to non orchid related stuff.

/Magnus

[Louder Than Hell]

In my region we use a lot the cork of quercus suber (that's the one of wine caps) as it grows wild here.
Probably it's more expansive than others but it's very porous, light, decay resistant and I love the look

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[Gin]

I have mounts of the Cholla that are as good as the day I got them 7 years ago it might have something to do with the size of the Cholla mount and the conditions it is kept in mine are in the green house, plants are watered daily .. Gin

[thakshila smith]

Why do not you try out concrete poles. Make out of cement inserting one metel or steel rod/coil.
Vandas grow crazily .About six foot tall is enough.
May be wood poles get decayed.
use some coconut husks too.

[isurus79]

I'm a big fan of driving around the forests and grabbing branches of hardwood that have fallen or been cut down. Its free!

[peeweelovesbooks]

I've used cypress, cork, now I'm using teak wood burls from RF orchids. I love the look of teakwood the best.

[got ants]

Originally Posted by peeweelovesbooks

I've used cypress, cork, now I'm using teak wood burls from RF orchids. I love the look of teakwood the best.

I have a Dendrobium aggregetum mounted on teak that I purchased from Bang Jok orchids (sp?) down on Chrome Ave. It is just awesome. Now that I know RF has them for sale, I'll definitely have to get down there. Maybe stop by Ruebens at the same time.

btw, I have two Ghost orchids on stick mounts and the largest one has the stick splitting. I really dread messing with them to remount them....any recommends on a better mounting material for these?

[lepanthes89]

I have settled on cork as my favorite mounting material.Tried treefern,sassafrass branches,etc.They all rot too soon.
By the way ,cork sheets (the ones used for corkboards) work just as well as natural cork bark.
Unless the plant mounted is xerophytic, I include some moss.Eventually live moss grows around it.

[Lorraine]

I have mounts on cork, grapevine wood, driftwood (all sizes) including Mopani hardwood from Petco, also a local reptile store has some cool wood, treefirn slabs & poles and wood vanda baskets no medium. I have 1 piece of cholla wood and looking for more. I have some on cocoanut halves that are doing fine too. When they start to disintegrate it's easy to pull apart and redo. I guess I have more on driftwood than anything else and it looks more interesting and multiple plants can be tucked in. I actually try anything that looks interesting. I am staying away from using plastic since there is no water retention. Happy mounting

[mujacko2002]

Happy New Year!!!

Since i live in a tropical country, as much as possible i mount my orchids on live trees. I feel i can get away for a few days without watering my orchs if mounted on live trees. I just try to avoid trees that sheds its bark when it expands. If its in pots i use charcoal/orchid rocks/fern slab instead of coconut materials.

just my 2 cents.

Godbless