Orchids: Cool October Orchids, 1 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Thanks, Jim. That picture makes me feel a lot better. As an 'ordinary' gardener not used to orchids, the idea of letting any plant root just wave around in the air is very foreign to me. But the orchids seem to like it. Epiphytes, right.

I received a lovely gift just now, in a trade package from another DGer - a cutting of a variegated Vanilla Orchid! It looks like it has a little adventitious root at each leaf node. Do I pot it in sphagnum, or lay it on a bed of bark or moss, or what? Again I hate to see any root out there waving in the air! Especially on a cutting.

This message was edited Oct 5, 2011 3:49 PM