In June a dinner guest gifted me with a large unidentified plant with 4" blooms and many buds. I recognized it as an orchid, but knew nothing of the care and feeding of it. Researched the internet. The moss was wet, so I added nothing. Two weeks later all the buds had opened and the moss was still wet. I cut some slits in the plastic baggie that surrounded the roots. Two more weeks and the moss was still wet and starting to stink. By this time I had found Ray's website. While shopping for Prime Agra I found two broken pots with small drowned noid orchids on a trash pile in Home Depot. I rescued them for $3. Found hydroton at the local hydroponics store. Cut the spikes off the gift plant, cleaned the moss out of the roots, trimmed away the bad ones, and potted it in a deli container of hydroton. Poked the two obligatory holes one inch up, of course. One month later, there are four nubs poking out of the stem, a new spike sprouting from a node on an old spike stump, and a new leaf growing in the center.
I potted up the rescued plants in plastic cups filled with hydroton after removing bad roots. They now have plumped-up leaves and each has started a new leaf, including the one without any salvageable roots. That one is sitting on a pebble tray under a plastic bag.
Last month the local supermarkets had sales on noid phals for $7 to $9. Sigh. One or two at a time I added eight more, choosing small ones with lots of unopened buds (except for two wilted really cheap "as is"). I immediately put them all into s/h, and not one blossom or bud dropped as a result!
Ok. This was more than I expected to share first time out. This is way fun.
New here: all my Phal. NoID are in s/h
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