Inorganic neo media - Orchid Board

Pilot · #6 10-07-2013, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Bud

Its like putting a turtle neck sweater on the plants....LOLZ!
I love it! I have the materials= I will try this too !

Bud some things I learned-- use good shears... weak scissors won't do much but frustrate you cutting this stuff. Also, measure how high you want the material to sit and then shorten the height by 1/3-- as you roll it and form it to "mound" it'll naturally get tall and decreasing it's original size by 1/3 will do the trick.

Also cut the strips long! Rolling this stuff up means a lot goes a little way.

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Originally Posted by Leafmite

I think it looks cool! I agree with you about moss. I use moss for a few orchids but I am not fond of it, either, and I don't like any media that rots. If straight lava rock only worked for everything!!! I hope you will keep us posted. I am looking for an alternative to moss for my angraecum leonis, bulbo, and zygos (mix of rock and moss).

Amen...lol

Another alt to moss is eco web. I have planted a few phals in this stuff. I take the ecoweb in cubes and pack them in between the existing roots as tight as I dare without breaking roots and this aquamat is cut and unrolled inside the new container/pot and the plant with ecoweb cubes stuffed inside.

Neo hybrids LOVE THIS STUFF and the phals seem to be responding now, too, in a positive way.

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Originally Posted by rangiku

Ryan, the first one looks great. And, I love your pot so much!

If they could make it moss colored, I bet it could almost pass as moss.

Thanks, Adrienne-- that first one is a later attempt and the care going in to sculpting the aquamat was obviously refined over earlier attempts. The underside of this set up in the pot is domed-- as the top is-- so there is able air movement, and I'm hoping, superior to that of moss. In fact it may be so much so that those planted like this will need a home under the auto misting system.