When I feel challenged I have called RF orchids. They have the knowledge and are willing to share. Good luck

This plant is incredible! I have emailed your photos to quite a few "plant friends" and they're all very impressed too!

Good luck with this beauty!

Thanks, Harvey. I don't need advice potting it, I need a pot!

I was hoping for some creative ideas for a basket type pot which I could use to repot this plant.

The basket it is in is perfect but now is too small. I wish I could find something similar to bump it up.

I'm not sure RF Orchids carries such a thing.

Claire, any creative ideas about a pot/basket type thing?

Jane

If I were you i'd ask a handy friend to make a custom planter box, similar to what you have already, maybe just with more weight in the bottom so it's less likely to tip over? How much does the plant weigh?

Can you post more photos?

Are clay type pots difficult to find in the USA? Other than a clay pot maybe add a bit of lava rock to the mix.

Sooner or later you might have to divide your pride and joy. Much easy to do with orchids with "normal" sideways method of growth such as Den. speciosum (Just get out an old saw).

Easy for me to say since I've never, ever won best in show.

How about those whiskey barrel planters, they are wide and shallow. Check Target and Walmart for waste baskets, I picked up a plastic basket at Target a while back that I used as a planter. I also had a wooden patio furnture set that fell apart. I used the slats to make a tall basket for a vanilla vine.

Having just killed off my one and only angraecum, I'm flabbergasted they can get this large.

I found some 14 and 16 inch diameter pots with hole on all sides and bottom at hydrowholesale.com. I have a grammatophylum in one. Very heavy and strong.

Look for the Hercules pots.

Beautiful plant Jane, have only grown a couple of angraecums and they did ok for a while... A member of the coral springs orchid society had grown a massive angraecum and got an Fcc cultural award from AOS, point being that she did not disturb the root ball as she advanced to larger baskets and the plant kept growing at an exponential rate. I would recommend getting larger TEAK (much longer lasting than cedar) basket and if you could place the existing basket into it and keep roots undisturbed it will continue to thrive for you. The dolly s a good idea, a larger basket with allow you place some stones for weight balance, 9 gauge wire can also help in keeping plat upright and bracing to basket.

BTW if you cannot find a large basket, see about getting a couple of teak boards and if you're handy, cut them in strips and make your own basket or have a friend with a saw help you out... great plant.... nice job growing!

Teak is durable but there is an issue to work it. Teak is loaded with silica. It is very hard on the carbide. I part time do wood projects. If asked to work in teak I demand a surcharge for each tool that was affected. The surcharge needs to be large on my planers as it takes a lot of time to re set the knives. A durable wood that is much less expensive and workable is cedar or cypress.

I understand that, however this would not be a furniture building endeavour no planing or finishing needed, cutting one board into 1 inch strips and then the strips the size of the basket..I would sacrifice a blade for that...cedar is just too soft for long term basket use...but it smells nice..

Yes cedar is soft. But it is rot resistance. It won't last as long as teak but it will go a long distance. Soft is irrelevant. It costs $15 to sharpen a carbide blade and it takes 3 weeks until I get it back. I'd rip the pieces if someone would pay for the sharpening. And the cost of teak is dear. 3 or 4 times the cost of cedar. Teak is a poor use of a vanishing species that is best used in salt marine applications. Cypress also is very rot resistance and very green to use here in Florida as it grows and is milled here.

There would be a second blade involved for the crosscut. Double the sharpening...

Thanks, everyone, good ideas. I'm thinking I need to find someone to make one for me.

Don't worry, Harvey, wouldn't ask for Teak. Actually, the basket I'm using new was just wood, not sure what type but it held up for two years in this humidity and rain.

I regret not buying the bigger one when I found this. They had three sizes and I bought the medium. Thought the large one was too big. Now they don't have them as is the case with Home Goods. Hit & miss store.

What I did do however, was stain the wood the color you see. I then added two coats of poly. I put some long screws here and there to strengthen the basket. It was designed as a waste basket, it had a plastic liner, which I removed. It has held up well considering how heavy the plant is. I did wrap coconut liner around the inside to keep the bark from falling out.

Ben, I have repotted this plant many times over the 12+ years I've had it. I never had a setback regarding the roots. I don't take drastic pruning to them, but I do cut off any dead roots. This plant started out in plastic pots and moved up to clay pots (yes Arthur). I repotted into this wood basket two years ago and cut quite a few roots. It did not set it back that I could tell. Bloomed beautifully that winter. If I could find a proper basket, I would probably pull this one apart somewhat or just remove the liner to let the roots have more air.

James, that basket would be too narrow and deep. I need shallow and wide. There are some cement bowls which might work, but they are too heavy and I need to move the plant.

Wood would be best, I just wish I could find something. Maybe a whiskey barrel if it drained well and was not too deep. I took a quick measurement and the plant is approx. 4 ft tall, it is top heavy and blows over regularly.

Jane

Hello

I just bought a couple of pots from the HD online catalog 20x24 inches deep . Made of a molded fiberglass, mixture look like woven rattan. Best part was they cost 9 bucks each!! lol Had several thousand choices in the catalog. Didn't look at wood or clay but they had a large choice . Came from the manufacturer but sent to the store for free lol Might take a look ?? gary

Jane the plant is fantastic. Hope whatever you get built is something that you can have the plant dropped into or built around it. Wow what a green thumb!!!

Gary, thanks for the suggestion. I'll try their website as I've not found anything in the store. Never thought of that.

Theterrestrialman, thanks, not really a green thumb, just luck. This plant is amazing because it keeps growing and blooming despite five moves over three years. Different climates - NY/Fl. Seems very resistant to most problems Angs are prone to .

It needs a bigger basket and it needs to be strong enough to hold the weight.

Jane

How did you grow this when it was in NY? Outside during the summer and inside for winter? What kind of light does it need? Thanks for sharing the pictures.