Tolu. Tender Memories

[awakedude985]

The humidity in the area where I keep everything stays between 70% and 80% during the day and drops to between 50% and 60% at night. There is also about a 10-15 degree drop in temperature as well.

There is no moss around the base of the plant where it is attached to the mount. I watered it around 9 this morning and it is dry now (just as my lights went off). I keep my other mounts (and this one for now) in a terra-cotta pot with a few peanuts in the bottom to keep the roots from sitting on the bottom and the entire thing is on a humidity tray. The plant and all of the roots are dry, but the humidity inside the pot is probably still pretty high.

[Paul Mc]

Interesting. I don't know what the effect would be of having the humidity so high, but Pilot here on this forum grows them in semi-hydroponics. So, I assume they are consistently exposed to high humidity and probably very rarely dry out, but not sure about the later part as that depends upon a few factors.

Sounds like you are doing good though!


Paul McMahon
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[NYCorchidman]

You can also pot them up.

When these walk out all over the tiny clay pots, I either toss them or pot them up.
I tried both bark and chc with great success.

They are not much different than any other epiphytes. They need good watering and drainage, and quick drying.
They don't have to be completely dry everyday because with pot culture it is not possible unless the potting mix is only straight clay ball or something of that kind.
As long as the drainage is good, it's all good.

I potted up mainly because of the ease. I hated carrying every single little clay pots to the sink and dunk them, and then put them all back to where they hang by the window. I really did not like that at all.

Once they were moved to a 4 inch pot. They did great with less under watering issue and much less stress and work on my part as well.