K Barrett wrote:
I am just floored
> that the real world experience differs so far from teh book-learning
> experience. I'd never have expected these to like moss. I'd have
thought
> they wouldn't like the moisture so long at the roots or to be repotted
as
> frequntly as moss does (in my hands it gets sour fast)(crappy water)
But
> there ya go. Learn something new every day!
>
> K
>
>
I was too, but then Tom Nasser from Carolina Orchids, the Agrae*** guru
on the east coast, suggested a number of medium options including a
promix-based one. He said they actually like water, just good drainage,
and the promix type mixes have the advantage that at repotting time you
can just spray it off and not really disturb the roots very much. You
can even leave them in the same pot if they haven't outgrown it and just
wash out the old mix and shake in new.
I killed a lovely large Veitchii a couple years back. It was in a badly
broken down cattleya-type mix after about five years or so and I
repotted it. Dead within a two months. I didn't really expect it as I
had repotted it twice before and it had never shown any negative
reaction at all. Go figure.
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