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Originally Posted by tansyflower  A couple of Q's
1.Are they sphag mixed with other stuff, or straight?
2.I have been taking most of my orchids out of sphag, as it seems that it is very tightly packed. How tightly do you pack sphag?
3. I have some recently deflasked seedlings packed loosely with sphag. They all seem to be drying out at different rates. What do you suggest, as I am worried that even short dry spells may be fairly detrimental. |
very good questions
answer to Q 1 aqll my sphag is straight nothing else is used.
answer to Q 2 that is a mistake alot of people seem to do is pack the sphag tight.
all my sphag is loosely used, just enough so the plant holds in the moss because the moss will grow.
with question 3 what you can do is place the pots into a shallow dish of some sort so you can go along and put water into the dish and let the moss soak up the water I would do this either each morning or latish in the afternoon with your location I would lean toward latish afternoon
i will edit this post in a second so I can show you what I mean with a dish
I keep these chids in this dish all the time I just ad the water when needed