While an orchid is growing well I'm hesitant to disturb it for a repot. I put it off as long as I can, sometimes for waay tooo long.
My Robert Strait is a perfect example, here's a shot of the plant
As you can see this plant is happy, but it's out grown the pot and most of the new pseudobulbs are growing outside and the roots have totally wrapped around the outside of the pot.
My goals are:
- to remove the orchid from the pot
- decide if I keep it as one plant or divide it into multiple plants
- save the pot ( a minor goal but with the cost of clay pots a goal none the less)
- do as little harm to the plant as possible.
To begin; early this morning I placed the plant in a 5 gal bucket of water. I added a bit of fertilizer and since I just received my worm tea a bit of wt was added to the water. the plant has been soaking for about 3 hours now and I hope that the roots will be pliable enough to make this process possible.
Shot of plant soaking in bucket
Wish me luck. (say a prayer for Robert Strait)I'll take a few shots of the process, and the final results.
The surgery begins....