Hi Manfred
"Greetings from sunny Sydney.I have Phallies that I have not repotted for 4 years they just keep on growing and flowering roots all over the place outside the pot.
You grow many diff slippers?
Cheers Manfred"
I have taken the knife to the straying Phallie roots and repotted them into my medium bark mix.
I Will start using coco nuggets small & medium to suit pot size in spring for the next crop coming along.
Some of the old roots out of the bottom of the pot died off and new ones started to grow see Photo 1
Photo No 2 is the same plant with its first flower. I am also trying to learn how to display the flowers in an arch,
the 3rd Photo is of a 3 month old Phallie from flask also in bark.
The only reason I was worried about the roots is when we take them into club nights of show they get damaged badly.
As for growing Paphs I have over a thousand, all from flasks, mainly complex types.
In the last 5 years or so I have gone into a lot of maliopense hybrids with armeniacum, hangianum, micranthum etc and have some very good results so far with many more to flower.
Cheerio
Ron
