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01-12-2007, 04:05 PM
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Volcanic rock?
In the mid 70s, when I bought my first orchid, I looked at it every day and it never did anything. I was young and impatient. I read the one page culture sheet handed to me with the plant and it told what could be used to pot orchids. One of the choices was gravel. Needing some sort of interaction with my new plant, I dumped it out of the pot it was perfectly happy in. I borrowed some natural pea gravel from an aquarium that we weren't using at the time. I potted that little Phalaenopsis in what, I learned later, was an over sized pot for the size of the plant. It grew up, bloomed, and lived happily in that same gravel and same pot for over 25 years. Of course, every few years, I had to dump it out, break off the dead bottom with dead roots and pot it deeper again. It finally died last year due to the Phal disease that killed all of my other Phals too. The point is, an orchid can do very well for decades potted only in gravel. Steve How sad to loose a plant you've nurtured for so long. Thanks for the response. |
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