Acquiring Neofinetias Via EBay - Orchid Board

s.kallima · #1 09-13-2013, 06:18 PM

Sorry for your loss Matt!
I find there has been a lot of "moss trouble" with SE plants lately, due to poor mounding of the plants.
Plants used to be mounded with a hollow dome, or the smallest with a packing peanut underneath the plant, but the ones from this summer were in a big ball of very tight moss (not hollow), and I made the mistake of not checking them as soon a I received them (so used to SE plants quality).
Some very nice plants (not inexpensive! Akogare, Koganezuru, Shishinden, Keshomaru) ended up in emergency care with no root and I am not sure I will bring them back to life

Make sure to unmound when you receive the plants people ! Lesson learned...

Jayfar · #2 09-13-2013, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by s.kallima

Sorry for your loss Matt!
I find there has been a lot of "moss trouble" with SE plants lately, due to poor mounding of the plants.
Plants used to be mounded with a hollow dome, or the smallest with a packing peanut underneath the plant, but the ones from this summer were in a big ball of very tight moss (not hollow), and I made the mistake of not checking them as soon a I received them (so used to SE plants quality).
Some very nice plants (not inexpensive! Akogare, Koganezuru, Shishinden, Keshomaru) ended up in emergency care with no root and I am not sure I will bring them back to life

Make sure to unmound when you receive the plants people ! Lesson learned...

Hmmm...

Very good advice.

I think I'm going to spend my next days off doing some remounding.

My Ryokusaihou from SE definitely has a nice big hollow space all the way to the bottom. The others I don't see a hole from the bottom though. Ditto my Orchids Ltd. plants - no hole visible from bottom. I did previously remound a couple SE plants that had older sphag and with those I did find the roots in very good shape. Those were in the smallest size pots and I can't recall that there was a packing peanut in them, but I'm thinking not.

It's probably to my advantage that I maintain constant air circulation on my Neo table. I have a small fan blowing across the table, plus the humidifier blowing upward lives right beside that table. All my pots dry pretty quickly, judging by weight and crispness of moss. I've needed to water most about every 3 days this summer, supplemented by misting.