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Originally Posted by pasojanice
Hi one and all, I have 2 bare root Vandas that I just received and would like to put them in baskets. Do you have any tips for me? Such as what to do or another forum to look at? I am in Zone 5 so these are indoor in my sunroom.
Thanks in advance.
Janice  |
if you grow it in a basket:
you line it with a bed of coconut fibers, then curl the roots to fit inside the basket(make sure to achor the bottom part of the plant to the basket with a wire) and sprinkle it with charcoal, lava rock, sponge rock and bark, hang it a foot away from the window
spray it damp every morning
weekly weakly fertilizer
but you can also do a vase culture:
find a vase or a glass jar that will fit your plant bareroot and place it inside the glass...once a week soak it for 5 minutes in fertilizer mix
and every morning spray it damp with water
or if you have read Ray's S/H method:
it is the easiest way of growing vandas...but make a note never to let the roots touch water in the forst two months and have a hotmatt under the plant(vandas do not like cold = indoors with AC tend to cool the water to a chill)
* note: Vandas can withstand up to 105F in the summers but ideally it must be only 80F all year round= at night it can withsatnd 55F...but ideally nightime should always be 65F
humidity at 50% and above
small oscillating fans on both sides of the windows in the morning is fine
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