How do you all water your mounted plants? If you have a
misting system, is that sufficient? I mean, assuming the same basic premise of air + moisture is true for potted plants vs. hanging; meaning just that I would never pot normal plants with sphagnum because it retains too much moisture, and I would not eliminate the medium as it would be difficult to keep the moisture up.
Like it seems like mounting, although lovely, would be exceptionally difficult to maintain adequete moisture and fertilizer... Most of the mounted orchids I have seen over time haven't looked very happy... just whithered little sticks on a branch...
Not that you all's don't look good, on the contrary, they're quite the opposite of what I'm used to seeing, so I wonder how you all keep the plants in tip top shape like you do under such difficult conditions...
What's the fertilizer regime? what level of dissolved solids are you using for regular watering? What frequency of watering vs. just "
misting" the entire tank etc... do you use?
I'm all for mounting, they look spectacular. Is it possible to mount large vandaceous plants? Like I'd rather "mount" on epiweb or similar driftwood than a basket, but concerned I won't be able to find a sufficiently large mount for some of these vandas... Cheers to mounts!
I think I'll order some epiweb from Ray to start mounting/hanging in my new tank this next week...
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