In my last visit to Chatuchak market in Bangkok, I noticed that the people there had their ground orchids in pure coconut chips (don't know if I got the word correct, what I mean is the 'outter skin' of the nut, not the 'shell', chopped to small square pieces). The plants looked very healthy and produced many flower spikes.
So I decided to re-pot my orchids using 'tree fern roots' (another word which could be mis-used here, but I think you can see clearly in the photos) I also use this medium for my 'air-orchids' such as Cattleya and Brassavola.
This medium retains some moisture and is very airy, so hopefully my plants will like it. The down-side maybe I will need to water more in the dry season.
3 comments:
Tiny snails breed in coconut husk in my garden. I never use this medium for anything that I need to place on the ground.
Your ground orchid will certainly enjoy rooting in the airy rice husk or tree fern root :-) These two medium are new to me... thanks for sharing Ha Xuan!
I hope for the same, that my orchids would like this new medium.
Actually, in Thailand, I saw that they grew their dendrobiums on coconut husk, everywhere I looked :-). Maybe they treated it somehow that it worked well for them.
Oh a friend of mine stuff coconut husk inbetween the charcoal medium she used for her dendrobiums. She wanted her orchids to have more moisture at the roots ;-)
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