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Originally Posted by WaterWitchin
I would really like to see a couple of pictures of those Tolumnia potted in the coco husk chips!
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Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts
Me too!
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Sure thing, here you go! They're all potted slightly differently. I have them all by one of my southern windows in my kitchen along with an Oncidium twinkle red girl (photo 1).
My first two are in black, square plastic pots that I made a million holes in (photos 6, 7). These two were my first. I had them in pumice earlier and they just didn't like it one bit. After putting them in a mix of cocohusk and sphagnum, they've rooted very firmly.
Two of them (the largest of them all) are potted directly in cocohusk and sphagnum in large-ish terracotta pots, whereas the remaining two are still in their germination chambers (photos 2, 3). The roots had grown firmly around the plastic pots and there was no way I could remove them without killing all the roots (photo 4). So I just placed the whole chamber into terracotta pots.
From the photos, it might look as though the ones in terracotta might not get any ventilation, but they're all pretty airy from the top. I've had all Tolumnia this way since January and they look happy to me.
Bonus photo (photo 5) of most of my orchids last Sunday during fertilising!
Hybrid Mode
