On an interesting and almost entirely unrelated note, I once knew
a vanda grower in the San Antonio area (many years ago) who used to have
hundreds- perhaps thousands- of vandas in culture. He had some spectacular
individual plants that were 9' tall, and perhaps taller (it's been a long
time).

Anyway- on certain plants, he used to use small (thimble-sized)
plastic containers that were normally used for allowing people to wear cut
flowers so that the stems were kept in water. But instead of filling the
containers with water, they had fertilizer solution in them, and instead
of sticking flower stems into them, he stuck them onto the actively
growing root tips of vandas. He'd swap them around every hour or so during
the day on plants in his show room.

I have no idea as to the effect on individual plants, but overall
he grew magnificent vandas.

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Cheers,

-AJHicks
Chandler, AZ