Vanda seedling

[arleneg]

I recently bought a 2-3 inch tall (seedling?) Vanda tricolor suavis. Currently, it's in a small clay pot with coconut fibers. Is it too early to transfer this baby into a small basket?

[tom499]

If you can give it what it needs when in a basket, then yes. The sooner its in the basket the better, as the roots will start tying themselves round it early. you may want to grow it in a pot though, depending on your choice

[MSPProductions]

I've been nursing two Vanda Kagawara seedlings for about 6 months.
I won them on ebay for $.99 ... so we are talking about little risk.
When they arived they were bare root and were not in ther best of shape...
roots were really in bad shape and leaves looked like they were very very thirsty. I put them in a slat basket stuffed with Spag and was placed in a window sill that I was walking by dozens of times a day, so they were misted all the time.
One, after months, showed signs of life and I started to remove the moss that was underneith with tweezers. And now is growing new roots, so I'm going to toss the other and maybe pick up another seedling and give it another try.

[arleneg]

MSP,

What size basket are they in?

[MSPProductions]

The basked is a 4 inch one. Since they are an experiment I put them together and if I do go off the deep end again and get another seedling I'll probably put them in there as well...there is plenty of space.