That Arundina is really a lovely graceful thing, and the little twisted petals on Jiminy Cricket give it a nice perk. And what a nice gift Catt - it looks very traditional.
Talk about inspired by the rain, I got tired of bending over to clean stuff up, and sat down at the patio table with my poor old Cymbidiums. Figured they were not going to be happy as wet as they've been the last few days so I re-potted two of them. All three have nice new growths coming, and only one had an earthworm in the pot, so the medium wasn't all that badly broken down. The worm didn't appreciate the dusting of cinnamon he got before I realized he was there, so I had to rescue him, give him a rinse and put him in another pot. Now I need to run out for another pot and more orchid mix. Oh, and what about fertilizer?
Now, these Cyms were potted in very coarse coco fiber chunks, but I was recalling that someone said they fertilize with Osmocote? Don't we need soil, and its company of bacteria for the plants to take up the urea-based fert in the Osmocote? Please advise - what does everyone use to fertilize their Cymbidiums?
