| You will have to drench this basket every so often. Misting is an additive process, and salts will build up if you don't do something to leach them back out.
Reusing baskets if an iffy business. If the last plant was virused, and you almost never know if it was or not, there will be the high probability that it will cause the next plant in the basket to become virused. Sterilizing wood is difficult. You might soak the basket for long hours in a 10%, no, better make it something closer to 20%, bleach solution, or maybe the 400F oven for 2 hours method would be OK for wood. Virus is not a rare thing in orchids, including commercailly produced plants, and virused plants grow very poorly.
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