P. Sogo Rose 'Sogo F-987'

[landanew]

Al funny you should mention that. I have already left a couple subtle hints! It is never to early!!! And A Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you!

Brad

[Ben Belton]

That tight sphagnum is how the Taiwanese pot all their plants. I am moving all my Phals to sphagnum. It grows amazing plants. The rules are different though. You might only water once every 2 weeks and use very little fertilizer because the sphagnum will retain it.

[landanew]

Originally Posted by Ben Belton

That tight sphagnum is how the Taiwanese pot all their plants. I am moving all my Phals to sphagnum. It grows amazing plants. The rules are different though. You might only water once every 2 weeks and use very little fertilizer because the sphagnum will retain it.

Have you been repotting them that tight and how long have you been doing that way. I will tell you I have never seen such nice roots and not any bad ones. How do you water when you do? Like I said when I watered the one the water would come back over the top it would not go soak down. When I looked at the bottom part of the pot it was dry. I set it in a dish of water and it sucked up all of the water. That is why I chose to repot it. I probably killed it!

Brad

[rangiku]

Brad, Ben has years of growing experience compared to my *counts on fingers* 7 months, but from what I've read and experienced, when sphagnum is really dried out, it will not absorb water readily and seems to actually repel water for a bit. So try and water it before it gets crispy crunchy.

[landanew]

Originally Posted by rangiku

Brad, Ben has years of growing experience compared to my *counts on fingers* 7 months, but from what I've read and experienced, when sphagnum is really dried out, it will not absorb water readily and seems to actually repel water for a bit. So try and water it before it gets crispy crunchy.

This was wet 3/4 of the way down it was the 1/4 that dry. The water would not filter thru the spag because of how tight it was packed. It was like no other I have repotted. I repotted it like my others in a loose, spag / monterey bark mix from repotme. I hope that will not hurt the plant by changing it from a super tight pack to a loose sag mix?

Brad

[landanew]

Originally Posted by Ben Belton

That tight sphagnum is how the Taiwanese pot all their plants. I am moving all my Phals to sphagnum. It grows amazing plants. The rules are different though. You might only water once every 2 weeks and use very little fertilizer because the sphagnum will retain it.

Ben, I use a "RepotMe", type, spag/bark mix packed lose. Are you potting yours tight and 100% spag, like these from Norman's? I have put a couple of pictures of the way they are when I receive them. The third picture is the way I repotted one of them. Am I screwing them up by changing it? As you can see the first picture the bottom third of the spag is dry. When I watered it the water just sat on the top andsoaked in until it went 2/3 of the way down. I will have to set it in a cup of water to let the bottom 1/3 soak it up?

Brad