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Sunday, April 7, 2013

Repotting Phalaenopsis gigantea

Bare root Phalaenopsis gigantea
 
     Phalaenopsis gigantea got moved up to a larger pot on 03/12/13.  The reasons for the repot were two-fold.  One: I'm finding myself less and less willing to water orchids every day.  The 2.5" clay pot that housed my gigantea seedling dried out very quickly, and I wanted to have more time between waterings.  Second: the orchid has grown a great number of roots since September, but they were all growing up and out of the pot.  But putting the orchid is a wider larger pot, I was able to give all these new roots a chance to grow into the media.
Phalaenopsis gigantea seedling

3 comments:

  1. You were watering every day? That is dedication!

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    1. 29 orchids.... 3 mounted plants, one angraecum in a vase--at least something could use watering on any given day. I'm trying to bring that down to every two days, as much as possible.

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  2. Looking good, nice roots, new leaf is coming.
    Watering every day is quite a burden, I totally understand you as for a while I had about 15 vandas in vases that required every day watering. Very quickly I realized that instead of enjoyment my orchid hobby became a chore, so I moved them to pots.
    Now in humid tanks my phals can go unwatered over a week and vandas 3-4 days.

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