| It has been almost 2 weeks since my last post. I repotted my plant into sphag, because upon depotting, the roots were hmmmm...less than desirable. They looked about like the ones from Mike's post. I decided upon sphag as a possible short term solution. My last batch of sphag just isn't cutting it for me, so this will probably be two or three months in this, then when I see some healthier roots-repotted. You can see in the pics the roots poking out, nice and green, this is a dramatic improvement already over what they did look like when I removed them from their old mix. I decided not to measure, but it looks like it has a small amount of growth, even the weird mottled leaf.
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"If nature ever showed her playfulness in the formation of plants, this is visible in the most striking way among the orchids. They take on the form of little birds, of lizards, of insects, a man, a woman, sometimes like a clown who excites our laughter. They represent the image of a lazy tortoise, a melancholy toad, an agile, ever-chattering monkey. Nature has formed orchid flowers in such a way that, unless they make us laugh, they surely excite our greatest admiration." Jacob Breynius
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