Vandas in Glass Vases - Page 20 - Orchid Board

trdyl · #1 10-31-2010, 02:57 AM

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Originally Posted by nutgirl

It is literally just a piece of terry cloth around the top. It's not very attractive but it does the job.

The terry cloth works well since it holds moisture for a while but allows the vase to breath, I would like to come up with something that's not so tacky.

Maureen

That is a great idea. Looks like it would really help if you had to leave for a couple of days.

nenella, Will do!

Monique.rbld · #2 11-03-2010, 08:13 PM

Trdyl I've tried your method on my rhyncholaelia plants for about 3 days already an the little one is already getting a new root. I have this plant for about a year and it hasn't done anything. Thank you for your idea
Monique

wgama · #3 11-12-2010, 07:51 PM

I think I shall try this ingenious idea!

CathyG · #4 02-16-2011, 08:35 PM

Thank you for this idea! I have 3 vanda type orchids, all doing rather poorly, but alive. I dug through my plant pots and came up with round baskets and some goldfish type bowls. Found baskets that fit the opening and I am giving this a try before I ship the plants off to a friend in Miami. One plant got an old wine carafe.......Hopefully, your methods will work for me as well. I think I will take photos to mark any progress.

CathyG

Vanda lover · #5 02-17-2011, 05:50 PM

I'm looking forward to trying this! I already have a bare root Epicat and an Encyclia cochleata that I have over vases, trying to decide weather to pot them or not! I'm definately trying it for my next Vanda relative. In the mean time, I'll watch these and see what happens! It just makes sense.

Vanda lover · #6 02-17-2011, 06:06 PM

Do you get much sun in the winter? We don't. My Pak chong blue is in a north west window, with a florescent floor lamp close to it. It gets supplimented slightly, by another window to the west with a covered porch over it. It blooms 3 to 4 times per year. Of coarse, I put it outdoors in the summer.

amandarenee · #7 04-18-2011, 02:33 PM

I ended up with 4 vanda coerulea, and had them in vases for the past 2 months. But any root tip that touched the glass started to rot! I bought cedar baskets instead, but now I am worried about them getting NO humidity -- I lined the bottom of the baskets with sphag and put some perlite around the roots (not covering them, under/a little around them), and am soaking them every morning and the sphag is mostly dry by night time.

I am moving to AZ soon, where there is NO humidity (at least here in TX we have an evaporative cooler that makes the humidity in the house rather nice). So I am really thinking I should stick with vase culture. But what about the rotting tips? The one that really rotted has roots that are thick and growing at almost a 90* angle to the plant, so it's hard to get them down in to the vase. And all 4 have such small root systems that the vase is pretty much totally open, so does that really help the humidity?

I would really appreciate some input, I love these little guys and really don't want to kill them. I wish there were more pics on this thread!

Vanda lover · #8 04-18-2011, 03:42 PM

I have started experimenting with vase culture, and my problem with it is not know weather I would have to water every day. It's a lot of water, and bother. Also, the roots get so big that eventually you would have to put them in something else anyway. I have mine in a slatted basket with sphag and large lumps or charcoal, which works fine for me. Our summers are pretty dry, and I soak about every 3rd day, with lots of mistings in between.

cday2inflorida · #9 06-18-2011, 08:54 AM

Not to make this thread confusing nor take away from vandas in vases which I find totally fascinating....
I was at a friend's house and he has many vanda type plants. He grows Tillandsia usneoides (spanish moss) around the roots for added humidity. It actually looked GREAT! He told me has grown this way, always.
Just wondering if anyone has grown with this culture and the pros and cons.
I wish I would have taken a picture of his massive plants surrounded by the Tillandsia. I did find a link after coming home and trying to research it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...a-coerulea.jpg

nenella · #10 06-18-2011, 09:49 AM

Funny you should write this as I too grow in vases and a couple weeks ago. Chatting with my mum she told me to take the tillandsia off an african orchid (Rhipidoglossum rutilum) as it grows better without the Tillandsia. So I took most of it off & put it on top of my miniatum and my blue Asco which both grow in vases, covering roots and for the moment I am very happy. It seems to keep more humidity in the roots... to be seen how it does.