[fred]

I must admit as most of us know I grow about 70% of my orchids in sphagnum moss I love the stuff.
It is hard to beat fresh sphag.

I strike my ps-bulbs in sphag plus all my oncid,s, odonts, mini catts sarcochilus, Masdevallias, and a few others are all grown in sphag.

What i find with growing in sphag the skewer method does not come into the use of growing in sphag.

Having said that the skewer does work well with bark medium.