| Hey Brassavola!
Thanks for sharing your experience. No flowers? That's definitely not what I want. It seems the consensus is that cork might not be the best bet for me so I've opted to keep my cork mounted plant in w/my baby vandas -- it's a 55gal aquarium that I converted to a sort of homemade "orchid-arium" type housing. Actually...I suppose it's really more of a semi-enclosed humidity tray. Anyway...the current mount is on there pretty good and I'm afraid I'll do more damage than good by removing it at this time. My aquarium set up stays between 75% and 90% humidity...I think that will help. The baby vandas sure were happy last year so I think it just might work.
As for any other mountings I do...I'm going to stick w/the advise of using tree fern. I'm hoping for the best! Maybe try one on the cedar...I haven't decided yet.
BTW - I wouldn't be brave enough to use one of my Brassavolas for the experiment...they're some of my favorites and I'd hate to lose them. If I can make the catts work...I'll consider some other plants after this winter.
Thanks again for sharing your experience!  |