You have inspired me to try SH. I'm gonna use LECA and lave rock with a couple of wicks as well. Fingers crossed! 🤞

One day I will have a go at your potting system. It still seems quite radical to me , but you seem to have great success.

I took a tiny devision of Retusa with just two leaves and two broken roots from my friend's garden, where it is kept semi wild, in July. Kept it in moss. First one of the old roots reactivated it's growth and then new roots started to grow as well. A new leaf followed shortly. Super happy! I am sure yours will do great; it seems retusas are not too fussy 😃

@TheOrchidRoom

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your experience with them, sounds fantastic - great to hear they're vigorous! I'm hoping this one will start on some new roots soon! 😀

@drpk6514

4 жыл бұрын

Did you use the same semihidro method?

@TheOrchidRoom

4 жыл бұрын

Vadim mentions they used moss 🙂

Thank you I did same is your orchied Leca and fertilizer

Thank you for this video, I shall surely follow your journey. Mine was from the same seller, but with all roots jammed in a rather small pot. Crossing fingers for the new set-up according to your recommendations (media, heating mat). No worries - I will not start a fuzz of I mess it up 😊

@TheOrchidRoom

4 жыл бұрын

Let me know how it goes with yours, would be great to hear your experience with potting it and if you think the heat mat speeds up new roots! If it doesn't work it would still be good to hear, then we can get a better idea if it's something specific to my environment or if it works well in yours too! 😀 But I really hope it does work and your orchid doesn't skip a beat! 😀

@tinakauder6605

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheOrchidRoom Dear Annabel, I am a little careful as to not be too optimistic... but these couple of days in your recommended setup/ medium/ heat mat were enough for a tiny step forward: my sorry plant is producing happy sap. That's a first ever and cannot be a bad omen 🤗

@TheOrchidRoom

4 жыл бұрын

@@tinakauder6605 This is exciting! I'm really happy it seems to like it! 😀 I know it's too early to tell and it could still change, but I'm like you and tend to get excited at early stages. I've put quite a few rhynchostylis hybrids into this setup now and so far none have lost roots and tend to start making happy sap like yours. I hope yours starts making new roots soon also! Please do keep me updated! I can't remember if I said but I also use maxicrop seaweed extract at 10ml/2Litres or around 30ppm at every watering with the nutrient mix and I swear it helps with new root growth in my semi hydro setups also. Thanks for letting me know your initial results! 😀

Perfect. Thank you

Looks nice potted up. The hanger works great on that pot?

I was eye balling that! I bought the gigantea from them instead 😁

@TheOrchidRoom

4 жыл бұрын

Also a great bet 😉 it's gigantea spiking season so you may even get a spike soon!

@jennmcc5842

4 жыл бұрын

Oh I hope so! Even if I don't, it's gorgeous to look at 😊

Thanks. I have Rh. retusa mounted. I had it from flask and now I think its more than 5 year old. I have a few flask or Rhynchostylis and other alliances that I was wondering to use your system for deflasking them. Do you think using LECA alone for deflasked seedlings would work?

@TheOrchidRoom

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, I think LECA would be a bit too dry at the top for deflasked seedlings in my environment, but it depends very much on how LECA and semi hydro behaves in your environment. If you don't have issues with a dry top layer or can spray the top layer regularly when new roots emerge it could work.

@drpk6514

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheOrchidRoom I was wondering to keep them under the growing dome which hopefully would allow the humidity to wick to the top.

Can you tell me the size of the plastic food containers you are using please. Where do you order them from?

How is going with this one .i would like to try. I have it barefoot but not doing so great

Hi Annabel, Could you do this with all types of vandas type orchids or are there some you wouldn’t try this with ?

@TheOrchidRoom

4 жыл бұрын

All my vandas are potted in this setup following my vanda update vid 😄 I can't recommend it yet as it's only been a few months- initial results are positive. Rhynchostylis and Aerides are safer bets as they're known for loving more moisture and potting them is more common.

@niccienglezos3464

4 жыл бұрын

The Orchid Room Thanks Annabel 😊I only recently found your channel and I’m making my way through all your videos. I’ll keep a look out for your vanda updates as I’m keen to see the results. I’ve made something similar for my vandas. But they are mostly seedlings and I’m not sure my set up would work for a large vanda . It’s only been a month and a half and so far it’s looking good. Looking forward to your future updates ☺️

How did this orchid do in semi hydro I’d be curious to know !

@TheOrchidRoom

3 жыл бұрын

It's doing great thanks! It was in a tour video briefly but the last update mentioning it specifically was here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oK6FwdN-e6mTgqw.html at 07: 58 . Keep an eye out for my full vanda update soon if you're interested! 🙂

the old stem will not rot in the container?

@TheOrchidRoom

4 жыл бұрын

It's not buried very deep and the top layer will stay quite dry. Rotting is unlikely, but the other option would have been to remove that portion of the stem, which would have been unwise since there are potentially still active root nodes present in it.

@baiorchids6089

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheOrchidRoom i understand, hope your plant will adapt quikly

Can you update your rescued orchids😊

@TheOrchidRoom

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion, realised I never replied! but I did make the video in response to this :-)

@majasokora4477

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheOrchidRoom I know, I've watched it 😊, very informative video like the others. These three ebay sellers you listed have expensive plants for the quality they offer. I enjoy watching your videos, waiting for Catasetum update 😉 I have eleven Catasetum type orchid in my collection, currently three are forming spikes.