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Old 09-15-2011, 06:37 PM
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I had already posted this in another forum, but wanted to start participating here too.

I ordered a bunch of orchids last week and had already decided to mount them.
Okay, on to the pictures!

The how-I-dun-it, mounting Gastrochilus Japonicus:

Orchids to be mounted, and available mounts (got it at the petstore). I had soaked the mounts a couple of times before, the last time in fertilized water (don't know why, thought I'd give it some nutrients for the plant? Don't know if it made sense)


Teasing it out of the pot. It was in very fresh sphagnum as far as I could judge, and no damaged roots at all. If they were there, I normally would've removed them at this stage. While I was preparing my stuff it was soaking in a weak fertilized solution.


positioning on the mount:


Putting on sphagnum, and a little bit underneath, and tying it with plasticized wire:


Making a little loop and adding the label:


Tadah!


All of them mounted, from left to right Renethera Vietnamica, Gastrochilus Japonicus, Sedirea Japonica and Cattleya Aclandiae:


And gave the Cattleya Aclandiae a little companion, another Aclandiae:


And then I watered them. I still need to hang them on my wall, will update if I do.
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Old 09-15-2011, 06:38 PM
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Here are close-ups of the other mounts, plus two I had bought already mounted.

Renenthera (Renanthera?) Vietnamica


Sedirea Japonica


Mounted this NoID mini-phal earlier this week, I already had the plant.
It is now a centrepiece on my dining table, and working on a keiki ^.^




Another Cattleya Aclandiae


Schoenorchis fragrans mounted on wood, hanging on the last ever available bottle of my favorite 2001 Rioja.
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Wow! They are all beautiful
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How gorgeous! Here I was thinking mounted orchids in the home couldn't be done! This certainly is inspiring, especially since I was running out of shelf space at the window...
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Awesome!
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Nicely done ! If it gets larger then you dont repot it, just attach everything to another bigger wood....I will look for some of my orchids that I can mount, this is a very good idea
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VERY nice mounts!
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Nicely done, love the mounts!
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they look great! I've used wood for reptiles from the petstore for mounting orchids too
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Nice mounts, I never thought about getting wood at the petstore! Very healthy plants too, which grower are they from.
I have about a dozen mounts at home, but most are struggling. Even with twice a day watering they are still very dehydrated. How do you keep yours?
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