Hygrolon Cylinder In Tall Vase - New Project!

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Ok, so, it is official, as crazy as I am over my regular babies at the balcony, I got totally hooked on the MINI ORCHID babies. I got my very first mini's just in June, created small vase vivarium and small glass/wood terrarium, nothing complicated there, however I was so happy with the look, that I started to be little bit obsessed with mini's. After huge fight in my head trying to decide if going for some kind of regular store bought vivarium, or building my own thing, and after hours of Google research, I fall in love with HYGROLON material, and the Hygrolon Cylinder especially. Since I still had pretty tall vase unused in my house, I went for DIY project. Ordered 4 Hygrolon mounting slabs, piece of Hygrolon cloth, and dry moss mix. Than got just regular plastic pipe with the cap in Home Depot, and dry cement. Sealed bottom of the tube with cement and the cup, and glued Hygrolon cloth and slabs on the tube with silicon glue. The tube serves as water reservoir. Hygrolon wicks cca to some 11 inches, so I needed water to be wicking both from the bottom and the top. When applying Hygrolon clothe, I left long pieces over leaping, and these are actually sticked inside of the tube on the top. When I tested it today, and filled for the first time water on the bottom of the vase and than to the tube, the whole cylinder was wet top to bottom within some 30 minutes
Today I did apply the dry moss mix - just mixed with RO water and applied with butter knife. And since few mini's from Andy arrived, I did mount already 3 on the cylinder - Haraella Retrocalla, Bulbo Rosary Beads and Pleurothallis Liptifolia. I am going to see how these babies are doing and than add slowly more and more, I have already list and even some on the way. Please, excuse my lighting at this time, I have one Grow Light on the way from Amazon, that will be placed there as soon as it arrives, and also just to make sure there is some air movement (even it is open vase inside the AC apartment) I will place just small fan there as well. I hope for the moss to start to grow and turn to this amazing green color, so the whole look in few mounts should be mossy cylinder with mini's sticking out of it. Keep your fingers crossed for me, as I said, I am totally new to this type of growing, never had any orchids inside the house till this July, and never had any mini's either. But this is just way too cool!