Great idea to sink the pots, Cheryl. That will keep them a bit cooler through your hot summer months and help retain moisture.
Ken, you're right of course. Through summer here it often rains every day so it's probably not too critical about overwatering. Except mine never bloom in summer, they always bloom in either spring or fall, or both. Dry months. So I'm thinking for Cheryl's that have not bloomed yet, easy on the water might be a good idea - not good if they were near a lawn sprinkler that soaked them. I also sprinkle used coffee grounds into the urns to keep mosquitoes out of there. But never get fertilizer pellets in the urns.
Hetty, I do fertilize my broms lightly and usually about this time of year, just before the summer growing season (the wet season). When I bought the last ones at Tropiflora, (the local brom experts), the pots had pellets of either Nutricote or Dynagro slow-release fert in them. I asked about it, and they said when they're growing in a greenhouse or other shelter where they don't get the natural 'fallout' from the trees, birds and bugs, they like a little bit of fert. Also at Selby where they have fabulous broms, they do give them a very light sprinkle of slow-release under the plant in summer. They spray the ones in the trees with very dilute orchid fert because there are orchids up in the trees right alongside. My orchid fert is 1/4 strength at most, also. (I ask a lot of questions when I catch one of their volunteers in the orchid house there . .. )
