Overgrown Phal hybrid

[james mickelso]

Get a nice looking flatish oriental pot and repot into that. let the roots hang out of the pot. You can water the plant by misting the roots with distilled water or taking it to the shower and letting it get a bath. I love the roots all askance like that. Very Asian looking. I would mist them daily or even more. This would be a temporary solution though as the roots would eventually get shriveled. But for now it would look very kewl. You can, and it is done regularly by all sorts of deviant phal growers, cut the length of the root down to manageable sizes, let them dry out for a few days, and then stuff the plant into a shallow larger pot. If kept moist enough these roots, without cutting can be kept growing for a couple months. Bonsai growers/collectors grow cotoneaster and crab apple with roots growing all over the place. Just an interesting artistic suggestion. Not everything has to conform. Outside the pot is kewl too.

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