Oncidium Repots - Question

[Optimist]

I've been looking over at the (erhem) marijuana growing forums. They are nuts enough there but have great tips anout getting good growth from indoor plants (that want to be outside). So, an experiment was a nine volt battery, two alligator clips attached to opposite poles of the battery. Two copper or gold conducting wires in the pot, each on an opposite side. Just give it a charge for 5 minutes a day.

I have sworn to myself to conduct this experiment one day!

[JMNYC]

Originally Posted by Optimist

I've been looking over at the (erhem) marijuana growing forums. They are nuts enough there but have great tips anout getting good growth from indoor plants (that want to be outside). So, an experiment was a nine volt battery, two alligator clips attached to opposite poles of the battery. Two copper or gold conducting wires in the pot, each on an opposite side. Just give it a charge for 5 minutes a day.

I have sworn to myself to conduct this experiment one day!

Methinks that would be OK were we addressing some say, vintage, numbers matched Vette that's been sitting dormant for decades. But maybe not even that.

For me, the means never justify the end; the means....are everything.

Plant are living beings, why would you want, however unwittingly, to bringing them trauma?

This is not some puerile TV show with pseudo physicians on some set screaming Code Blue!! GET THE PADDLES! Clear!

And even if a plant is in some version of cardiac arrest, that is not the route to repairing that anyhow.

I can't even abide using curb bits on horses.

This...is not YOU! You, blessed with empathy!

Ponder.

[lotis146]

I didn't quite realize, or grasp perhaps, how much water Wilsonara and Zygo like, especially Zygo, especially my Zygo. They've been back outside again for several days now, raining most of the time, and they both seem pretty happy although an inner most leaf on Wils. new growth has some brown spots on it, just noticed today and has me a bit worried. Before I was kind of only watering them on a weekly basis, when they seemed light and dry worried about rot and all. But really happy they're digging the rain!

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My Onc. Heaven Scent btw has not seemed to suffer AT ALL still from the repot and my rough handling of it during the process. In fact the spike that was in bud is now in bloom and the other spike has grown significantly longer though at first it appeared to be short like the one currently in bloom. These are spikes #4 & 5 for this plant since I got in March. However I see no evidence of any kind of new growth.