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Originally Posted by Wild Orchid
Here's a little illustration - one of my rescue orchids working hard on growing new roots & a leaf. 
It gets its daily dose of weak seaweed spray while I'm sipping my first cup of coffee in the morning. Yeah, I know!  |
I do the exact same thing!
it's just relaxing to me to spray the roots... Don't know why... Kinda like its relaxing to paint (art, not walls
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Originally Posted by SHag42
OK after doing a lot of looking around on this site. I figured out what was wrong with my mini noid phals. They were over potted and had root rot. I looked around today for some small clear pots to put them in and could not find any. Then as I was sitting on my porch eating a cup of pudding it dawned on me that they were just the right size. So I ate three of them one for each phal. Cleaned and bleached them then tried to make holes in them. I had no drill and a knife did not work well. Thought some more and had the idea to use my wood burning pen. Set it up on the porch and turn on a fan to blow away any fumes and was able to make nice round holes and slits in no time flat. Cleaned them again and then went about unpotting my babies. I had bought them off the clearance rack at lowes about a year ago they had hardly grown any. Of course knowing what I have learned on here I am surprised the lived at all. the leaves had started wilting and getting wrinkled. When I pulled them out of the clay pot the middle of the media which was a standard orchid mix was very wet and the poor thing had a bunch of rotted roots. All of them did have about 3 to 4 roots each that were OK. I cut off the bad roots. Rinsed off what was left then let them soak for about an hour in RO water and a couple a drops of superthrive. Took them out and let them dry some Then potted them up in my modified pudding cups with a mixture of bark, perlite, lava rock and a very small amount of spag. moss. Cleaned a little larger clay pot dried it off and set the plant inside. They already look better. I am hoping that they do well. Being in clear pots I will be able to monitor the roots and hopefully water them correctly. I had no idea that they should be not be in a larger pot like you do most plants. Thank you everyone for all the great advise you have posted here. Maybe now I can stop being an orchid killer and become a dedicated orchid grower.  |
Great idea!
Necessity certainly is the mother of invention. I think most of us use some type of container that started as one thing, and is now a pot! I have a couple wet cat food containers (plastic) that I'm gonna see how my phal seedlings like.
...I'm so sorry you HAD to eat that much pudding!
Ah, what we do for our orchids!
heheheh
j/k with ya!
Can't wait to see them bloom next spring! (just give them a couple weeks of cooler temps (~60°F) in the fall/winter, & you're good) And, yes, I got confidence in u! You've learned so much already, u had great instincts about those pudding cups... Yes, I see beautiful blooms in your future
Good Luck! *uh, I'm gonna go find some pudding now
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