Linnea 56, You are the proud owner of a very nice looking Phalaenopsis orchid. Your plant appears not to be overly in need of repotting, unless the bark down in the center of the pot is decomposed and mushy. Most orchids detest wet feet, so the first test is whether or not the bark down deep in the pot dries out or not. The biggest issue I see with your plant is lack of light. The leaves appear lush, dark green, long and slender. All indicators of low light. The plant "leaning" in the pot is really normal for Phals. In nature they will attach to the trunk or a limb of a tree, or perhaps a crack in a rock face, and sunlight and gravity pull the heavy top downward, always in the same direction, toward the sunlight. The leaves will generally fan out from the core stem in a consistent pattern, with bloom spikes coming out from between the leaves and arching out into the air around the plant. We purchase the plant, that has been grown under optimum conditions with light from above, and the pot seldom moved until the day it is moved for sale. The leaves are generally a bit rusty green, thick, wide and relatively short, and not so many of them. signs of a healthy plant grown under optimum conditions. We get it home and place it with its prettiest side facing our intended audience, and as its blooms begin to age, every time we water it, we change its orientation. The plant soon begins looking more like a corkscrew, than a fan.

Anyway, back to the chase...I would purchase orchid mix with chunks of bark large enough not to fall through the holes in your new pot. You want the bark to dry between watering. Get Fir bark, with chunks or charcoal and perlite in it, if you can find it. Do not use a pine bark mix. Yes, you can stand the plant up straighter when you repot if you want to. With more light the leaves will not be as long and spindly, and it will slowly begin to stand up better, for a longer time. Water when it is dry. Pick the pot up hold it in both hands and heft it. If it feels cool to the touch and heavy. Don't water. Light and room temperature to the touch, water. Hold the pot over the sink and thoroughly soak it with faucet on spray. Let the pot drip dry and replace it facing the same way it was before watering. If the blooms come out in a "bad" direction for showing the plant, then you can reorient the plant for several weeks while in bloom, but to prevent the corkscrew leaves, after blooming put it back in its original growing position.

Fertilizer- it the mix is fir bark, suggest you use high nitrogen fertilizer. 30-10-10...10-5-5, or something similar. use liquid, and half strength half as often. If the box says 1Tablespoon to the gal. twice a month, then 1/2 Tablespoon once a month will do.

Have fun learning, orchids are really "tough ol' birds", so with reasonable care you will get through this first potting. I still remember mine....vividly!

will the ugly pot just fit into the pretty pot ... maybe just the top showing??? .. if so.. i would call the job done ...

Certainly, Just be sure you have good potting mix in the ugly pot. The mix should be solid pieces of bark/charcoal/perlite/whatever, because you want to be sure the inside of the pot is drying out between waterings. Check the bottom of the pretty pot, and if it does not have a drainage hole in the very bottom of it, in my opinion it was not made to be a planting pot, it was intended to be a decorative cover container. What water that cannot drain our through the side holes remains in the pretty pot, and the bottom of the mix in the ugly pot inside stays wet. A week or two of that and you will have real problems with root rot.

Bill

You might want to edit your post to add the orchid forum to its tags.

The holes on the sides of an orcbid pot are for air flow, not just drainage, so just dropping the current pot into the new pot would lose much of the benefit of the new pot. My preference is for a clear slotted plastic pot inside the orchid pot; 1) it gives less trouble keeping the medium in the pot, 2) it's easier for watering (just lift the inner pot out), and 3) I can see the roots to check on their welfare. I got mine from repotme.

Leaning isn't a problem, since orchids naturally grow on trees, often sideways, but they can be coaxed more upright ... just be prepared for more leaning.

My leaning orchid experience:

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5985729/sideways-orchid-phal-repotted-pictures-included

I'm no expert when it comes to orchids, but it's doing pretty well ... flowering is another story, but that's a whole orher matter. That topic also happens to include what I used to repot my orchid.