Feeding Potless Vanda

[Shadeflower]

k-sci,
thanks for addressing me.
You are absolutely correct that I was being a bit sarcastic just because I get ignored a lot. Sorry.
You never mentioned you had 75 Neo's

But even though what I wrote was written in a sarcastic manner, I do not lie about my numbers.

Yes the Neo's get fed at 100-150ppm total fertilizer concentration, exactly the same as the cymbidium which as you rightly realize is considered a heavy feeder. Maybe now my point makes more sense.
I have now doubled the strength for the cymbidium as it is producing a new bulb at phenomenal pace and was starting to show a little bit of yellowing.

I look at my orchids and try to read the signs they give me. I could start feeding my neo's more but I've tried it in the past and ended up causing roots to turn brown hence my belief but these discussions always end up with nobody believing anything other members write because so much made up stuff gets thrown in, making it very necessary to question what other members are writing is actually true, like the green line theory, nobody in the history of growing vanda's has made this claim about the green line except apparently mr motes yet now suddenly I'm supposed to believe it can tell me what my orchid needs?

[K-Sci]

Originally Posted by Shadeflower

k-sci,
thanks for addressing me.
You are absolutely correct that I was being a bit sarcastic just because I get ignored a lot. Sorry.

N.P. No offense was taken.

I look at my orchids and try to read the signs they give me. I could start feeding my neo's more but I've tried it in the past and ended up causing roots to turn brown ...

The sphagnum in traditional Neo mounds (all of mine are) can absorb massive amounts of diluted fertilizer. This causes a problem because water evaporating from the large surface area of the mound is replaced by water being drawn from inside the mound. The repeated application result is the deposition of very high concentrations of fertilizer on the sphagnum surface. When this happens you see the Neofinetia root tips die the moment they contact the moss.

People like to posture as experts despite knowing little about a topic. When it becomes habitual that internet behavior you describe shows up in some people's everyday life as know it all behavior that the experts know is B.S. but non-experts are often fooled. We just got rid of a new grad technician who thought he knew more than engineers with decades of experience.

About all you can do about this is to be skeptical and follow the evidence where it leads. Extraordinary evidence is how I came to be a Christian.
K-Sci