I have two phal orchids from Wal-Mart. The first one is just over three years old now and I've never repotted (didn't think about it actually, I'm just surprised I managed to keep it alive this long!)
I have found some potting medium online (at repotme.com), I also plan to see what my local walmart offers for repotting orchids, it may or may not be ok!
My second orchid I have had for about two weeks now (the purchase of the second orchid is what prompted me to learn more about them and how to keep them happy & healthy!). I've noticed that it has some bark on top of the pot and what looks like green painted foam under that. It's peaking thru the bark.
I know for sure the oldest orchid needs new potting medium, if not a new pot, but I don't know about the new one. Should I re-pot it just becuase I can see it's in foam? There is bark bits on top of the old orchid as well. It was one of the ice cube orchids, but thankfully I never did that, I just watered every week or so.
I did pull both of them out of their outer pots last nite and dump the water that was in them out, so the outer pots were not holding water. I didn't know I was supposed to do that till I found this fourm! I'll be pulling them out every week from now on and submerging them to water (which seems the easiest way to go). Well submerging them when they seem to need watered.
TIA
Repotting a Phal from Wal-Mart
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