Root porn!!

[estación seca]

Originally Posted by isurus79

I think it looks like we pulled the pants (pot) off the plant and it's got a farmer's tan!!

Tell us about the nautical-themed pot?

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Originally Posted by BobcatJohnson

Been lurking on this board for some time now, first time posting though.

Does this qualify for this thread?
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Welcome to the Orchid Board!

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Originally Posted by WaterWitchin

...It started to push out some roots, so I transferred it back to SH. When it finally pushed out leaves, I got twins! I told it, no more experiments for you, just have a happy life now. Here it is about a year or so later, after I relegated it to a shelf.

Do you actually eat gingerbread, or did you buy it for the jar?

[isurus79]

Originally Posted by estación seca

Tell us about the nautical-themed pot?

You didn't realize that nautical themed pots cause explosive root growth?! I thought everyone knew that!

jk

I honestly don't know how it got painted. I think I grabbed some used pots from someone and it was painted!

[isurus79]

I needed to repot my one and only Cymbidium and found this in the pot. No wonder water was having a tough time penetrating!!

Cymbidium roots! by Stephen Van Kampen-Lewis, on Flickr

[WaterWitchin]

Originally Posted by estación seca

@WW...
Do you actually eat gingerbread, or did you buy it for the jar?

Come on estación seca! You know me better... that's a Gingerbread scent candle jar, of course.

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Steve, you need to re-examine your repotting schedule. Catasetum aren't the only ones that require an occasional repot.

[Dusty Ol' Man]

Is there any medium in there? Anywhere?

[DirtyCoconuts]

the brown dust is medium...looks juuuust right lol

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here's my contribution...bamboo orchid...had to move it to a bigger pot because it kept falling over in the 14" terracotta pot.

I moved her to a 24" MASSIVE pot...her last move lol

Untitled by J Solo, on Flickr

[isurus79]

Originally Posted by WaterWitchin

[/COLOR]Steve, you need to re-examine your repotting schedule. Catasetum aren't the only ones that require an occasional repot.

I think you're right!!

Originally Posted by Dusty Ol' Man

Is there any medium in there? Anywhere?

I honestly don't know! Looked like a wall of roots, so I just plunked it into a larger pot with media.

Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

the brown dust is medium...looks juuuust right lol

Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

here's my contribution...bamboo orchid...had to move it to a bigger pot because it kept falling over in the 14" terracotta pot.

I moved her to a 24" MASSIVE pot...her last move lol

Untitled by J Solo, on Flickr

Wow, definitely a big plant! Is this Arundina graminifolia?

[Shadeflower]

I know this thread is about huge sprawling roots and I have plenty of those (although nothing like some of the pictures on here) but I will be showing a completely different root for personal reasons because although this will just look like any old root to everyone else, some of you will know how much just a simple root on a dying orchid can mean.
This orchid hasn't been dying but as I have discovered a cymbidium has no problem completely filling a pot with roots in just one growing season, this one has not produced a single new root in ..... 2 years and today I finally discovered not just a root but a root the size of the stem, you can see the state of the old 2+ year roots and that this one desperately needed to get going but it's been a long journey with this one and this is just the start lol.

Oh yeah you need to look real closely, inbetween the leaves! I know, nothing to look at but sentimental root

[Roberta]

SF, I totally relate. I have an Aerides houlletiana behaving like that... just sat there for more than a year, suddenly put out a big, fat root (almost as thick as the stem) and is just starting to put out new growth at the crown. Cherish all roots! From the root machines and the survivors! Where there are roots, can flowers be far behind?

[DirtyCoconuts]

yes steve, Arundina graminifolia.


Shade- WHOOOHOO!!!! i consider this thread more about appreciating the wonders of roots than simply the magnitude ...your contribution is right on point