Ray

I have just been looking at your Epiweb pots/baskets photos on your web
page.

I have a few questions:
1. From your experience, do the roots actually enter the medium or grow
along the surface?
2. If a Stanhopea established itself in your hanging baskets and grew
towards the sides of the pot, would the flower spike be able to work its way
through the Epiweb? As you know, the spikes don't always grow straight down
and often grow at an angle to the bulb therefore more than likely to hit the
side.
3. Is the colour depicted on your web page accurate and does it
fade/discolour with time.
4. Being made of recycled PET, I presume the pH is neutral (7). Is this
correct?

Epiweb certainly looks like a possible viable alternative to tree fern.

Cheers

John


"Ray" wrote in message
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Tom,

It's a totally different animal from anything semi-hydroponics related.
Think a direct substitute for tree fern. About the only thing in common
is the inert nature.

It's available in slabs for rafts and mounting (they should have arrived
by now), pots, hanging baskets, pots with a mesh bottom for bottom-spiking
plants like stanhopeas, and as a granular chunk for use as a medium
ingredient or alone.

--

Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com
Plants, Supplies, Artwork, Books and Lots of Free Info!


"tbell" wrote in message
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On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 18:04:58 -0700, Ray wrote
(in article ):

Sue, et al.

I finally got in the EpiWeb from Europe, and the granulated material is
great for supporting newly potted plants in baskets or pots.

EpiWeb, if it's new to you, is a "synthetic tree fern" made from
recycled
PET bottles. It's springier than tree fern, so can be slightly
compressed
without damaging the plants, and it sort-of "locks into" itself, holding
things in place without affecting free air flow.

How would you use it, Ray? For mounting? In a pot? Will this change your
fondness for S/H?
Tom
Walnut Creek, CA
Nikon D70