Norman's orchids...Bad experience

[gerneveyn]

I am cautious when ordering from them. Some plants are great, and some are in bad shape. If you contact them, they'll usually give you store credit in the same amount as the bad plant.

[Ray]

Originally Posted by Orchid Whisperer

I have 3 pots of live sphagnum growing. Two are the same, a coarser-growing southeast USA variety. The other spontaneously started growing in one of my pots. It is a smaller-growing slender sphagnum. I was thinking of using live sphagnum as a material for growing something like a Phragmipedium?

Live sphagnum is a great potting medium for most orchids. It naturally keeps itself fluffy and airy.

[wintergirl]

Originally Posted by Orchid Whisperer

I have 3 pots of live sphagnum growing. Two are the same, a coarser-growing southeast USA variety. The other spontaneously started growing in one of my pots. It is a smaller-growing slender sphagnum. I was thinking of using live sphagnum as a material for growing something like a Phragmipedium?

You could do that. I still would set the whole thing in a saucer of rain water. My Phrag sits in water. All my carnivorous plants use live s.moss and sit in water. I have a Den laevifolium and a Epidendrum centropelalum in live moss but not sitting in water. I just really wet the moss at least once a day. If they get really dry I mist them twice a day, depending on weather.