Name: Big Bill Livonia Michigan (Zone 6a) If you need to relax, grow plants!!
I have posted a few images of how I repot my Dendrobiums. In this case a nigro-hirsute Dendrobium. In this instance I tend to treat them a whole lot more like a Cattleya.
Just as with my first tutorial on slippers I Show a 6" and a 5" plastic pot. I hold the plant into the top of the 5" pot in image #3 and you'll notice that it is a better fit then the 6". I allow for two years of growth.
Image 4 shows the roots splayed out a bit and in image #5 I have it properly positioned. I start to add my media as before: aliflor, orchiata, sponge rock and charcoal. In image #6 it is three quarters filled and I was tamping with my thumbs as I filled in the media.
In image #7 all the media is there in this close up view. You can see the brown base of the left new lead just left of center. Overall it is potted up a half inch below the rim of the pot. In image #8 I added a rhizome clip.
Plant is ready to go back on the bench. It is Dendrobium Judith Nakayama which is Dawn Maree times Formidable.
Orchid lecturer, teacher and judge. Retired Wildlife Biologist. Supervisor of a nature preserve up until I retired.
