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lucillle

Incoming NOIDs

8 years ago

Decided to get a few more orchids, have a few Vandas that will go in slatted hangers, and some phal NOIDs. The phals are going in clear plastic orchid pots with a combination of leca and lava rock, and several will go in a hanging basket with a layer of green moss on top.

I had bought some tiny baby phals (the incoming should be larger) that are doing very well planted in tree fern pots with leca, assembled in coir lined hanging baskets with moss on top. I occasionally dunk the hanging basket and in between times have a Hudson sprayer and spray water. The sprayed leca telegraph water to other leca that touch them, and the moss tucked around the pots holds water and helps with humidity.

My plants are indoors in front of a living room window, with some supplemental lighting in addition to the sunlight through the window. Orchids on each side, cacti and succulents in the middle directly under fluorescent supplemental lights.

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  • 8 years ago

    Lucille,


    Sounds like a great set-up, maybe a pic or two to really impress us :)

    You'll need to keep that Hudson going as the vandas will probably need to be misted daily (or more) and dunked when you do the coir-lined basket of phals. Stick those vandas in with the succulents and cacti, as they rarely get too much light when indoors. especially if you are having to use supplemental lighting.


    Good luck,


    Bob

    Comments (6)

    • 8 years ago
      last modified: 8 years ago

      Thank you. The Vandas (Is the plural vanda or vandas?) will go nearby but not under the cactus lighting, because they need space for the roots to hang. They will still be in the highest light areas. Supplemental lighting ordinarily needs to be just a few feet away from the plants it is supposed to benefit, there is a tiered cactus/succulent shelf from 9-24 inches or so from the lights, with no room for other plants.

      But the hanging orchids have a total of 8 of those coiled fluorescent bulbs on each side to help them out. Many do not realize that what they think is adequate light near a window is not enough light for some plants.

      I am lucky that I have vinyl plank flooring in my ap't living room. There is also a jute rug, but neither the flooring nor the rug suffer terribly from the occasional overspray from the Hudson. I am a senior so all of this was carefully thought out (including the substrate, bark does not telegraph much but some brands of leca do), since it would be a hardship to haul all the plants to the kitchen frequently.

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    • 8 years ago

      Sounds like a great setup! Can we see pics? I’ve always wanted a Vanda, but am afraid they will not grow well here. The phals are beautiful and easy for me. Where did you get the baby phals?

    • 8 years ago
      last modified: 8 years ago

      Pics after the incoming noids are set up.


      Decided recently to buy Vandas, got them on Ebay, some are small, some medium. Larger phals bought from a lady on Etsy. Should get both Vandas and Phals this week, will wait for all the other planting stuff to arrive and maybe put it all together early next week (grand baby is visiting on the weekend).

      Vandas purchased are not large, some downright measly in two inch pots, but got 6 inch baskets as once they are in they are going to stay, and since they will have no media, it seems to me that baskets do not have to be sized up as carefully as one does with other orchids. Update: A few vandas arrived and they are just going to have to have smaller pots because they are so little.

      Laura, small vandas are very cheap, you might buy one or two and just see how they do.

    • 8 years ago

      Thank you Lucille. How does their care differ from phals? I need to look them up and learn more about them. I got a few “mystery”phals from eBay and they were lovely and incredibly healthy - bare rooted but beautiful roots. I like the surprise of seeing what they will look like. I’ll check out the vandas.

    • 8 years ago
      last modified: 8 years ago

      Laura I'm not an expert on Vandas but the few I have now are flourishing, higher light, more frequent watering. no substrate that holds water like moss (my incoming Vandas that are going in baskets aren't going to get any media at all).

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