Rossioglossum Rawdon Jester 'HOF' potting mix

[WaterWitchin]

Put the pots together, fill it until gauge is all the way up. Then look and see where water comes to on inside.

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Whoops! Hit the wrong button. My guess is it goes pretty far up, but I'm not familiar with the pots...never used one.

After that, for a six-inch pot, probably around a 2" or little less reservoir. You don't want the plants old roots sitting in water. So put in enough water so it's around 2" deep. Mark the gauge with something (liquid paper, fingernail polish, etc) where you want the gauge to stop when it's "full" or at the right height.

Then put in LECA (you've already soaked it) up to approximately 2" plus one "ball" of LECA higher. Put plant in and fill rest of way up with LECA. That keeps old roots out of the reservoir.

After that... If new roots grow into reservoir, you don't care.

[JScott]

Originally Posted by WaterWitchin

Put the pots together, fill it until gauge is all the way up. Then look and see where water comes to on inside.

Thanks for all your help. I know you are excited about converting me to SH since you love it so much, so if I have any questions, you're who I am going to come to, and I appreciate that. I'll have more information when the pots arrive, and I'll let you know.

[WaterWitchin]

Cool! And you got it... I'm excited about you trying it. You will have all the help you ask for... and maybe a little bit more.

[JScott]

I dabbled in semi-hydro back in the early to mid 90s when it was new, but at that time I was still fairly new to orchids, so I was still learning the basics, so trying an advanced method like SH was not a good idea at that time in my orchid growing journey, and I gave up on it pretty fast. I'm excited to to be trying it again now that I know what I'm doing.