i jsut found an awful looking dendrobium eima white at work and took
it home to see what i could do. it was potted in a plastic pot inside
of a terracotta one. all of the visible roots were dead and most of the
bulbs/stalks were as well. there is one living stalk and one live leaf,
along with a little cluster of roots growing outside of the pot,
looking like the plant was literally trying to escape the hostile pot.
my plan was to cut all of the dead matter and repot it in the center of
the pot, or perhaps mount it.

when i went to remove it from the old pot, however, i discovered that a
large root network had developed between the plastic and the terracotta
pot.

What would be the best thing to do from here? Repot it in the center of
the pot? mount it?

any advice would be greatly appreciated.

thanks