I was watching a youtube video on slingshot making and they said one way to speed the process up was to stick the wood in the microwave on high for 60 seconds and then on 30 second intervals as long as you see steam coming out. It was their way of "aging" small pieces of wood. I wonder if that would prevent the mold issues you were talking about.
I went to my orchid club meeting last Saturday and took it with me to ask for advice. I mostly got ribbed about killing it, but I got a few pieces of helpful advice. It was all completely contradictory, though, so yeah.
Anyway, I'll probably use some combination of it. The guy I'd gotten it from pushed the LFS it was in tighter around it and said don't mess with it. Another person said to water it once every 2-3 weeks. Another person, who made more sense to me objectively said that with no leaves the plant doesn't have anything to do with the water I give it and it will just rot the roots.
That made the most sense to me, with the caveat that I don't know what I'm doing. It just seemed to make logical sense. However, it also makes sense to me not to leave it in a low humidity room and do zilch with it. In the wild it'd would get mist or at least moisture from the higher humidity. Also, there should be a small amount of photosynthesis going on with the canes.
It had actually completely fallen out of the media when people were checking it out. The person who helped me the most said that they'd probably just leave it sitting on top of the moss in the small clay pot its in. Possibly even leave that tray sitting in water. That would increase the humidity for the plant without having it sitting in water. I think it's similar to you bag with sphagnum moss. The only difference is the air flow.
I'm actually inclined to try you idea more as it would ramp up the humidity the most. I only worry about rot with the stagnant air.
Like you, the person helping me said that when it did start showing growth, they'd pot it in something like orchiata. A small sized free draining mix.
That is reinforced by what I saw on Orchid Girl's youtube.com channel about watering Dendrobium nobile. She said that while they like very frequent watering while in growth, they don't like to have the media soaking.
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