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20-06-2004, 09:04 PM

From: "Claude" de
Date: 6/20/04 12:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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Hello!

You said that you
did some dammage to the roots when you removed the old medium.

I wrote that I couldn't totally separate them without
doing some root damage so I spread them a little further from each other and
put them in a larger pot.

The roots are fine. I'm concerned about using such a big pot.

What kind of medium did you use?

Moss

Linda

"Ebthtr" wrote in message
...
| About a month ago I rescued two phals (in the same pot) which were left
for
| dead by their previous owner when they had finished blooming. When I took
them
| home I cut back the stem and now there are new leaves starting to grow.
There
| are also LOTS of roots are growing out of the pot. Not plump and green,
| slightly dehydrated and grey. Other than that the plants look good.
|
| I took them out of the pot to check the roots and they are doing ok.
Knocked
| off all the old bark and put in moss. I couldn't totally separate them
without
| doing some root damage so I spread them a little further from each other
and
| put them in a larger pot.
|
| So they now have gone from a 6" pot to an 8" and I don't know if this was
the
| right thing to do. The new pot looks so enormus. Should I put them back
into
| the 6 " pot or leave them in their new roomier place?
|
| Thanks
| Linda