I don't remember where I posted - many months ago, maybe a year - my whiffle ball and clay pot ideas, so I'm starting over here.
Installing my littlest orchid in a whiffle ball was a disaster. The roots didn't fill in quickly, so the orchid remained wobbly inside the whiffle ball. Trying to dunk water a wobbly orchid was almost catastrophic. I got water in the crown. It survived but has had only one leaf for, like, forever. It's now sitting naked in a glass and I HOLD its roots under running warm water daily. There's a tiny little second leaf nub beginning but nothing, neither leaves or roots, is growing very quickly.
The larger one I put naked into a clay "orchid pot", with the open slits on the side, is happier, but still has never bloomed. It has 6 leaves and many nice healthy looking roots though. But there's a little white mildew on the pot.
I'm going to take them both and put them into some repurposed nets like the ones produce sometimes comes in. I'm hoping to find some black ones. I want them to HANG in my window..... This is my best idea so far on how to do that.
Comments? Suggestions? Mockery?
