I think my Phal needs repotting - first orchid

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by bil

Weeellll apart from the fact that your mom dresses you funny, the only thing that would change from my climate to yours would be the frequency of watering. Where I water 3 times a week with that setup, you would maybe need to water twice or once. With coarse open bark it wouldn't matter a damn if you watered three times a day. The whole point is that the openness of the sieved coarse bark. It simply CAN'T hold water.
Look, phals do well in S/H, right? As do so many other varieties. Roots don't have to dry. What they HAVE to have is adequate air, and coarse, sieved bark guarantees that.
Come winter my phals go down to once a week watering.

I never said that your method wouldn't work, but that from experience, large pots can be an issue here (note my phrasing, as in first post, I never said large pots are impossible but that they "can" be difficult). The OP can decide which method to try, there is no one correct way to do anything with orchids. I was simply proposing an alternative, from my experience in a similar climate.

I don't know what your first sentence is about, but I'm not taking that as a compliment even with the smiley and you don't know where I am from. I don't even know why felt you had to include that to make your point.