| As everyone else has said, the main down side to having a mounted plant indoors is the dripping and mess. Also, if you go away you will have to find a caregiver who will water it every day or two or, as Cynthia says, "sphag and bag it". The other downside is that once you see how well your mounted plant thrives you will want to mount more. Soon you will have an unmanageable number and you will need to find a place where you can just hose them down.. well, you see the problem.
Having said that, I have some old hybrid phals (10 -15 years) from my early orchid-growing days that have more roots outside the pot than in it. They continue to grow well and bloom like clockwork every year, so I wouldn't worry about wandering roots. It's more a question of aesthetics than plant welfare. If you don't mind your phals looking like palm trees with roots growing all up and down the trunk, they won't mind. |