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Originally Posted by Roberta
Your Phal sounds fine to me. Often they'll do aerial roots when the medium is wet and airless. If they're growing into the medium, GREAT! The balance of air and moisture in the pot is very good!. As for the direction of the window, I don't think it makes much difference. The goal is indirect light (since these are low light plants) and either direction will work fine. In fact, you may also want to supplement the hours of light with an LED or fluorescent lamp...the short days of winter may not give it the duration of light that it needs to bloom. At least that was my experience... I went from little reblooming to nearly 80% by adding a light on a timer, 12 hours a day. So if it grows but doesn't bloom, something to consider.
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Thank you very much! I have one blooming now, and another is a grocery store clearance I rescued a few months ago, so I don’t expect to see it bloom until next fall. If it doesn’t bloom next fall and/or if the other one fails to bloom next year then I’ll definitely look into lights for them.
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Originally Posted by Shadeflower
It depends who you ask but I do not see a difference between an aerial root and a regular root. An aerial root is a regular root that grows into the air. It's debatable how much moisture aerial roots can suck from air. I don't think much. A root, whether aerial or not will want to suck moisture from its surroundings. Eventually most of the time when an aerial root does not hit any moisture it stops growing. Only in a really humid environment or if an aerial root hits moisture will it carry on. so there is nothing wrong with a root going into the pot. With a phal its the most practical way to water it.
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That’s a good point about the aerial roots not growing if there’s not enough moisture; when I got my first phal a year ago it had a huge twisty, beefy, aerial root. But within the first few months it shriveled up and got flat and papery. I eventually cut it off. So apparently the store I got it from (or the nursery it was in before that) was super humid and then when I brought it home there just wasn’t enough to support that root anymore so it died. But it seems happy regardless!
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