| How strange for me to find this very topic going on now because I just logged on to search pros and cons regarding potting in sphag and bark and others' opinions on this. I just received from a friend 2 huge plants, a dend. and oncidium. The oncidium was packed tightly in sphag which I don't have any of my plants in, mainly because of living in Fla., where there's an over abundance of humidity. I spent over 2 hours running the plant under water, carefully removing all the sphag. last night. It's got a massive root system going on and lost only a tiny amount in this undertaking. I haven't repotted it yet...will do this morning and give it a heavy spraying with worm tea. Not knowing as much as a lot of the people here do in recognizing when the plants need watering, I find it much easier to judge these requirements when in bark as well as it's overall progress. I was very surprised to see how healthy the root system looked but am glad it's out of the sphag. nonetheless.
I'm with you Mike....no sphag. here as well.  |