I don't know what kind of wood it is. I didn't collect or specifically buy the wood, it came with orchids I ordered.
I put coconut fiber around the wood, and put the roots on top.
This particular guy is mounted in the way I described above, but they're grown in a humid environment for tropical snakes. It kinda helps to have the wood wicking up some moisture from the bottom of the tank.
Btw, the Phal that I showed didn't make it. I made a mistake and broke off the new leaf when I tried to put another set of orchids in the tank and it toppled right on top of the Phal.
So another lesson to learn is, don't break a newly emerging leaf coming out of the crown, they will die.
I kinda expected the outcome to happen the way it did when the accident occurred, it was mentioned during my training session while I was working at an orchid nursery...
Again...
Break the newly emerging leaf coming out of the crown and the Phal is going to Phal heaven.
Why?
It's because the newly emerging leaf is still part of the meristem hidden within the petioles of the Phal. Dead meristem, dead plant.
I also think this guy didn't make it because of a second reason...
It didn't have enough energy to make a new set of leaves for a second comeback. :/
The other individual is doing just fine though. Just made a new leaf bigger than the last one. Winning!
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