Ah I see tui34 thank you, this is all very new to me. I will look out for a clear plastic pot then, and buy the special compost. Or maybe I could I even dry out the bark chippings I have, and use those, with a plastic one a little bigger than the diameter of the glass one.
At the moment the orchid is in such a tiny plastic pot inside the glass pot.
I hope it will be much happier in a new pot, and with much less moisture.
I just lifted the little plastic pot out of the glass pot, so it can dry out, and the leaves fell off. Not the fault of the lifting out, as I could see as I lifted it, they were coming off anyway.
What does anyone think - can an orchid regenerate itself, from just the stump/roots, with no leaves?
I was given one of those orchids in a similar glass ‘jar’ a few months ago. It looked pretty while it was flowering but now they’re over I plan to pot it up like my other orchids and keep it on the bathroom windowsill with them.
Not sure what to do with the jar … I thought maybe a small fern might be more suitable … ?
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Dovefromabove, yes I'll have a spare glass jar too, a very tall one. I would have put bath salts in mine, if it had a lid, but a fern is a good idea.
If my orchid survives I'll be happy to see it out in the fresh air where it can spread horizontally. I saw a video where you can upend a large plastic clear tub with holes in, over the orchid, to create temporary humidity for delicate/injured ones like mine as they recover. Now where is a large clear plastic tub when I need one?
I saw a video where after the dying orchid had revived, she put pellets of an organic fertilizer made from fish waste around the outside edge of the pot (not near the orchid). She had moss in a thick layer over the entire top of the pot, and the pellets were tucked just underneath it. Then she watered once a week with fresh water, where the water runs right through the pot which is full of holes and the substrate is the pine bark.
I'm new to this, it's interesting to see how different people do it.
What does anyone think of the fish waste pellets idea, have you done similar?
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plan to pot it up like my other orchids and keep it on the bathroom windowsill with them.
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