I need some advice on potting up this cattleya division. It must have been growing out of its pot for some time prior to being divided. I just got the division today. From the pictures you can see that the rhizome is different heights, so I can’t just put it in a pot with some media, some of the rhizome would be buried pretty deep, and I would need a pretty deep pot.
I did not want to divide it further, but don’t really see any other way. Does anyone have any thoughts?
With a plant this size, there is no harm in dividing it into 3 pcs. They will each be large enough to grow well, and it will partially solve the problem with non-horizontal rhizome.
__________________ Kim (Fair Orchids)
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I grow in SH and i just bury the rhizome. It doesnt rot for me and the rhizome starts growing horizontally because i have reallly high light. Eventually when I repot and divide again i cut off the old buried bulbs