I decided to use my standard Sedirea japonica as my project plant (and let the Sedirea japonica 4N as my own sub-project). As I was working from home today, I decided to re-pott my plant (yes, I know, i was supposed to be working and not playing with my chids...
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anyway, I got my plant, saw the neos sitting next to it, and decided to try something different, in order to increase the challenge of my project, and practice a bit with the japanese traditional method I plan to use with my Neos. However, I decided to modify it a bit, and somehow mix it with S/H technique, as I read Sedirea like it quite humid, and I do not have very high humidity in my growing place (This will also change soon, as after re-potting the plant, I went to internet and ordered a whole
misting system - this hobby is going to kill my bank account
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ok, here is what I brought myself into....
As you can see, I used an inverted basket filled with LECA (the biggest pellets I could pick from my stock, in order to provide more air for the roots, and making it less S/H) and placed it in a clay pott with side holes:
I glued the basket to the pott, in order to provide more stability
then I started wrapping NZ Moss around the basket, which happened to be not an easy task (So guys, you know what is coming up to us trying japanese traditional method without the basket
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so, one at this step and after several attempts to keep the moss attached, I went to my plant. took off all the old medium, and place it on the top of my moss-basket-LECA mountatin. I paid lots of attention to fit most of the roots into the basket, but leaving them still some space to grow in the direction they need, and leaving some roots growing outside.
Once at this stage, I arivved to what I considered the most difficult part: wrapping the roots with Moss, and making it still look nice. I spent more than 30 minutes trying to convince that St---d moss it should stay atached to the whole set, instead of falling down!!! and that all without using anything else but moss!!
anyway, here is the result:
maybe not the cleanest one, but IT WILL STAY LIKE IT IS as I am not planning to move it again, unless the Sedirea start crying "TAKE ME OUT OF HERE!!!"
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I am sending pics of the Sedierea japonica and the paph, but still need to take a pic of the Lc. Thanks for looking. 
It's busily growing a new leaf now. No sign of a spike. I think it's too little.
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