| I have grown some pretty large Cattleyas on mounts, but you have to get out of the box that says mounts must hang. For big honkers like that (in my case, I had a few C. bicolor, C. elongata, and C. leopoldii) I used large, heavy pieces of well-cured juniper wood. Most were hunks of rootstock pulled out of the ground on our central texas ranch and left in t he sun for the better part of a decade. I had quite a few large, impressive mounts. ANyway, these plants sat on the benches in the GH, rather than hanging from the wall or roof.
GOd, I miss my old collection.
*sigh*
-Cj |