How I potted my Neost. Lou Sneary

[orchidea]

My Blue Bird didn't look very hot... I came to Fall Show late, so this one was the last one there. It had bugs inside the flowers, so I cut the spikes....
Today I took a day off work , so Blue Bird gets a re-pot! I wanted to pot it the way natives do.., so here it is!


There are lava rock pieces inside the upside-down ceramic pot. The pot is covered with Sphag and secured with the fishline. Then I placed poor thing on top of mount of sphag and secured it with fishline. Then the whole thing went on top of lava rock in the shallow ceramic dish. I am going to fill it with a bit of water when it's going to dry up a little.
What do you think...?

[orchidea]

Sorry, it's Lou Sneary..."u" and "i" are just way too close to each other on the keyboard...

[Filb]

That is really neat! That's a vandaecous type right?
Is the ceramic pot supposed to wick water up from the tray with lava rocks?

[1joyceh]

I like it! I have one...and...slow...not doing much of anything....roots are good, have noticed a new leaf since I put it in glass with spagnum....if Lou doesn't get a move on, I may try your way...please keep us posted

[orchidea]

Originally Posted by Filb

That is really neat! That's a vandaecous type right?
Is the ceramic pot supposed to wick water up from the tray with lava rocks?

Thanks, It does look like vanda, but from what I could gather it should grow nicely accepting various conditions.
I really hope the ceramic pot IS going to wick moisture to the sphag. It's just too dry here.
I found this method somewhere on line, but it was suggesting to put the smaller upside-down ceramic pot with Sphag into another bigger but empty one. The roots on my plant (some of them) are rather long, so I decided to go this way.
Always like to try new things....

[Leafmite]

I like it! I have mine in the plastic net pot/lava rock set up and the roots are everywhere (untidy) and I have to spray them daily. This looks so much nicer and the roots will probably cling to the pot. Really great idea!
Leafmite

[RebelCowgirl]

Wow that is crazy lookin

[orchidea]

Originally Posted by RebelCowgirl

Wow that is crazy lookin

...Doesn't it look like pineapple?... Check it out again, exactly like pineapple....LOL....

[RebelCowgirl]

Originally Posted by orchidea

...Doesn't it look like pineapple?... Check it out again, exactly like pineapple....LOL....

Lol that is funny it does look like a pineapple but a cool pineapple I like it.

[plantloverlisa]

That looks great. I have wanted to try that.

[orchids4me]

Orchidea
I was like woah waht a mound of sphag until I read on that the sphags over another pot lol a pinapple and a cool one.
I think it might wick up water if the lower pot was sitting in a dish of water and the edge of the upper pot covered with sphag was directly on the edge/rim of the lower pot. I could be wrong but the clay absorbs the water andthe lava rock is airey holes so don't know if it will with the gap between the pots if that makes sense.....but let us know its an interesting experiment that's for sure.