On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:03:07 -0500, Rob Halgren
wrote:

wu wrote:
I might have got mine confused. A few sites out there said most Zygos
are terrestrials. See

http://www.orchidlady.com/orchidgarden/2001-10/
http://www.beautifulorchids.com/orch...gopetalum.html

http://www.adelaideorchids.com/index...alum_notes.htm

If mine is not terrestrial, I will need to get it repotted soon.


There are plenty of terrestrial orchids out there... But I don't think
zygos are one of them. They may be humus epiphytes - living in the top
layer of leaf litter and debris on the forest floor. That is pretty
easy to confuse with dirt growing. I've never seen them in their
habitat. Just based on the way the roots look, I would say they would
do better in an epiphyte mix than potting soil. But they do great in a
peat based mix like Promix-HP or the new coco-coir based Scotts
Metro-mix. They look a lot like dirt.

Rob

Our Zygo likes it in a deep pot like a nursery's tree pot with an
open drain bottom. We pack it in with just a touch of sphagnum
and hang it high in the gh. It gets watered often and the roots
grow straight down as a solid mass. When we repot at year end it
is without any moss and just a solid mass of white roots. They
look like the roots that come out of S/H.
SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php