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09-12-2020, 10:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Fuerte Rav
Wish I'd seen this comment before I prepped my S/H pots. I get water everywhere, every time I flush, no matter how careful I am.
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Laughing with you, not at you! I can see it... water squirting everywhere!
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09-12-2020, 01:46 PM
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So, just for academic purposes, I have 11 SH plants in my bathroom. Ordinarily I keep a 1 gallon watering can in there and I can do the “plug the hole, fill and release” on all 11 orchids with a little water for the Hoyas and the pothos....to do the free flow flush it took a full 2 gallon watering can.
Not prohibitive but more than double the water. I’ll probably do it once or twice a week and the plug and release the other days
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09-12-2020, 05:30 PM
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I like to pick up each S/H pot when watering, cover the holes with the heel of my thumb, and then fill with water. I get to examine each plant every time I water. I don't do the fill while running out strategy, probably because I'm a typical exceptionally thrifty male.
DC, put your plants in the bathtub, and water them with a sprayer on a hose. If you don't have that kind of shower attachment it's about time you put one in.
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09-12-2020, 07:34 PM
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I’m pretty sure y’all are overthinking things at this point.
---------- Post added at 05:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:32 PM ----------
Especially you Judah. Good grief...let’s go back to blowing up holes in reservoirs.
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09-13-2020, 08:22 AM
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Let’s face facts, growing orchid well is not a cheap hobby. A lot of plants are driven to their demise by trying to do things “on the cheap” that results in giving them “not quite” what we know would be better.
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09-13-2020, 11:15 AM
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Hahahaha I can’t believe you guys are so afraid of making out with your planters
I was just trying to get the nomenclature down. I read “flush” and “top off” and I wanted to make sure I was doing it the way Ray intended OR making the conscious choice to modify it
Doing the flush this way is fine. I just needed to have more water on hand and start making much smaller drain holes
I have my dendrochilum magnum in 3 gallon pot with a 5/6” hole. I don’t have a watering can that flows fast enough lol
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09-13-2020, 11:22 AM
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How in the h-e-doublehockeysticks do you keep the LECA from pouring out?
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09-13-2020, 11:26 AM
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Funny story. I ended up with a bag of hydroton GIANT lol. They are like big marbles. I use them for the bottom of all the SH containers. More space in the res = more turbulence in the flush....I think lol
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09-13-2020, 11:41 AM
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Well now THAT's fun! I may need to get me some of that action!
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09-13-2020, 11:43 AM
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While they're outside I flush my pots with tapwater several times a week. Once they come inside I do sometimes simply top off, but always with rainwater.
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