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Originally Posted by Clawhammer
Do you usually lose the roots when going from bark to scoria? What is the water frequency comparison between the two in your experience? Scoria seems like a great solution for monopodial orchids... You'd never need to repot!
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Hi CH! In my region over here, my orchids generally don't lose roots.
For my orchids, I usually water every day - just using the watering wand with a standard adjustable spray nozzle from a basic 9 litre water sprayer.
I've never grown in bark before CH - but I know that a lot of people use bark very very successfully. I mainly stuck with scoria as it has worked quite well in the tropical type region here.
Totally agree about the repot comment!! A couple of examples that I sometimes mention are a couple of monopodials like Ang. eburneum and Den. discolor that I'm growing outdoors, and still in their same pot of scoria from thirty years or so ago.
I have a couple of vanda only ---- two of the same kind of plant - V. Pachara Delight - sort of getting past juvenile stage now, which I purchased from an ebay store - doing nicely for a couple of years. Also a couple of Den. moschatum doing really nicely outdoors as well.
These outdoor ones get water from the auto lawn sprinkler, which come on every night.
I haven't had enough time ------- but will slowly keep working on little water pump systems for reliable automatic watering of my potted orchids for times when I go on trips away from home ----- so that I don't have to use someone else's time to help me water - so that I don't have to use up their time hahaha. I don't mind wasting (I mean spending) time with my own orchids hahahaha. But I know that asking somebody to help out is using up their time!!
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Originally Posted by Keysguy
Nice score SP. Those are hard to come by.
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Thanks KG! I didn't even know what these were two years or so ago. At an orchid show, I saw cute little pink/purple coloured flowers with crescent-moon shapes. And then I always encounter the same answer when I ask around locally ------ no leads or no sources or no spares etc for sale, or the usual 'display plant only' (none for sale) from nurseries.
With a bit of looking and sometimes with a luck as a part of that continued-searching ----- it's possible to find a particular plant that seems to be circulating among the growers around here.
I see a bunch of Aer. odorata, and falcata and other sorts on ebay and some nursery lists, but found it weird how magnifica isn't on their lists. I don't yet know what is the reason for that!!!
UPDATE: Just a minor 'typo'. In the OrchidBoard vanda alliance section, they will eventually fix up 'Arides' and correct it to
Aerides :
"Including
Arides, Ascocentrum, Cleisostoma, Euanthea, Haraella, Lewisia, Renanthera, Rhynchostylis, Trichoglottis, Vanda and their Hybrids (excl. Angrecoids and Neofinetia)"
Aer. magnifica
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