Mounted my new orchids -- & a howidunit | picture heavy
 

I had already posted this in another forum, but wanted to start participating here too.

I ordered a bunch of orchids last week and had already decided to mount them.
Okay, on to the pictures!

The how-I-dun-it, mounting Gastrochilus Japonicus:

Orchids to be mounted, and available mounts (got it at the petstore). I had soaked the mounts a couple of times before, the last time in fertilized water (don't know why, thought I'd give it some nutrients for the plant? Don't know if it made sense)
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...N4867kopie.jpg

Teasing it out of the pot. It was in very fresh sphagnum as far as I could judge, and no damaged roots at all. If they were there, I normally would've removed them at this stage. While I was preparing my stuff it was soaking in a weak fertilized solution.
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...N4868kopie.jpg

positioning on the mount:
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...N4869kopie.jpg

Putting on sphagnum, and a little bit underneath, and tying it with plasticized wire:
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...N4870kopie.jpg

Making a little loop and adding the label:
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...N4871kopie.jpg

Tadah!
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...N4881kopie.jpg

All of them mounted, from left to right Renethera Vietnamica, Gastrochilus Japonicus, Sedirea Japonica and Cattleya Aclandiae:
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...N4879kopie.jpg

And gave the Cattleya Aclandiae a little companion, another Aclandiae:
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...N4914kopie.jpg

And then I watered them. I still need to hang them on my wall, will update if I do.

Here are close-ups of the other mounts, plus two I had bought already mounted.

Renenthera (Renanthera?) Vietnamica
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...N4885kopie.jpg

Sedirea Japonica
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...N4890kopie.jpg

Mounted this NoID mini-phal earlier this week, I already had the plant.
It is now a centrepiece on my dining table, and working on a keiki ^.^
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...N4899kopie.jpg
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...N4902kopie.jpg
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...N4903kopie.jpg

Another Cattleya Aclandiae
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...N4904kopie.jpg

Schoenorchis fragrans mounted on wood, hanging on the last ever available bottle of my favorite 2001 Rioja.
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...N4906kopie.jpg

Wow! They are all beautiful :)

How gorgeous! :yikes: Here I was thinking mounted orchids in the home couldn't be done! This certainly is inspiring, especially since I was running out of shelf space at the window... :evil:

Awesome!

Nicely done ! If it gets larger then you dont repot it, just attach everything to another bigger wood....I will look for some of my orchids that I can mount, this is a very good idea

VERY nice mounts!

Nicely done, love the mounts!

they look great! I've used wood for reptiles from the petstore for mounting orchids too ;)

Nice mounts, I never thought about getting wood at the petstore! Very healthy plants too, which grower are they from.
I have about a dozen mounts at home, but most are struggling. Even with twice a day watering they are still very dehydrated. How do you keep yours?