Results after 6 weeks
I thought I would post a few pictures of some of my results in 4-6 weeks. I put all my plants (20 or so phals, catts, oncidiums and 1 miltoniopsis) in semi hydroponics over the first 2 weeks of August. Everything has done well, even the plants I bought bare root in November of 2008 and were struggling to stay alive and are now looking like I might have flowers next year (pictures not included)
This oncidium had a dead pseudobulb in July. In August I transplanted it. Now you can see the new roots
Most of my phals lost 2 to 4 lower leaves, at the same time growing new leaves briskly
My den aggregatum has 2 new pseudobulbs. You can see them as the most lateral leaves on each side, The one closest is what I was able to grow this spring in the medium that it came with
The cattleya has a pseudobulb that I knocked off (far right in black) when I was repotting, and the reward of hydroponics is 2 new bulbs, the two on the left ( was already started) and the nubbin on the right near the base of the dead black bulb!!
I hope this is encouraging to those of you who keep worrying about trying this.
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