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Easy Orchid Care: Repotting a Phalaenopsis with Rotten Roots / Steps to save an Orchid with no roots
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I repotted a Phalaenopsis a couple years ago and it had 67 blooms the next time it bloomed. My biggest problem here in S TX is we get so hot and dry in the summer. I always wait for sales like yesterday I went to my local HEB (grocery chain in TX) and Phalaenopsis that were selling for $23.99 on Saturday (Valentine's Day) were on sale for $9.99.
My orchid sat for about a year in potting soil with absolutely no TLC. The leaves stayed green and healthy. Unbelievable. I’m now showing it some love following your directions and wallah! It’s back.
I have gotten 4 Phalaenopsis in the last few months and they all came in the clear plastic pots like this one came in. I punched more holes in the sides all around and then placed them in heavier pots with room all the way around the plastic pot so the roots can breath. So far they are doing great and all have new growth.
After searching for videos on how to repot my orchid that I got as a house warming gift 10 yrs ago that was suffering, I followed your instructions and it was easier to do than I imagined it would be. What I thought I was going to see was a ton of rotted roots and very little to work with. What I did see was a lot more oversoaked roots and a lot of potential for healing. Thank you so much for making this video, you have saved my plant.
I'm glad you took time to go through the visuals as I am a visual learner. I need to be able to SEE what looks good and bad and not just by passing through it quickly. I knew nothing about Orchids. My granddaughter asked for help and it was very interesting to me to see what looked 'iffy' as well as hear what it should look like. Too long? Me, that is? OK, but the length of your video HELPED this old lady. Thank you so much! I'm sure the complainers are folks who already know a lot, or at least the basics of, caring for house plants...
The tutorial starts at 3:37 in case you don't have much time...
And at 5:07 to see where he actually starts taking apart the pot
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This is my first time visiting your channel. I'm only around the halfway mark, and I know I will be subscribing. It is obvious how much you care & respect your plants. So happy I found you, and thank you I learned so much!
I just bought 2 Phals 3 weeks ago. I didn't know how to care for it until I saw your video here. You were very detailed. Now, I am not scared anymore if something went wrong in the future with my phals. Thank you so much, it's very helpful. And yes I took all that some kind of dirt that was on the roots and repotted it with barks that came with it. Much thanks!!!☺️
Well, I found you again. Use to watch your carnivorous plant videos. Now that I am getting back into Orchids again, I have 2 reasons to watch.
UA-cam cancelled my parrotbill channel by mistake, and 3 hrs later th eff y put it back up. But in the mean time, I made the tallybeaverman so I wouldn't get behind on my favorite channels, and now I use this.
Just bought 6 beautiful Phalaenopsis this week, and had to do a crash course on saving them. All the CV troubled ones were root bound in small cups, packed with soaked Sphagnum Moss. They were losing flower buds anyway, so I had nothing to lose by repotting them in coconut husks chunks. I soaked them in a bloom food fertilizer for an hour, then drained the clear plastic pot insert well before I put them back in the decorator pot they came in.
The coconut husk chunks hold moister & nutrients better. Doesnt break down as fast as tree bark, and it give the best aeration of anything except a plant mounted on wood boards.
This video made me feel better about my plants. Mine weren't as close to the brink as the one you just saved.
Oh yea we had a good winter dormancy for my VFTs and Pitcher plants. One of my VFTs das 2 keikis growing off the flower spike along with a bunch of babies around the roots. Just fed them their first cricket feeding of the year. We have the same growing zone North Carolina has, so leaving them outdoors all year round is perfect for them.
Wow, I was watching this for fun but then I realized that my mini orchid is in the same exact situation! I bought it only a few weeks ago so the roots are healthy. I'll wait for the flowers to drop, cut the stem to the node, and repot it. Thanks for the great information.
Just bought my first orchid! Wanted to get a little education so I can take good care of it.
Amazing that you could save it at that point. Gives me hope for grocery store bought orchids.
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They're not so bad if you give them the right care and know what's going on with the roots. I purchased a orchid from a nursery, and the potting media started breaking down and it started affecting how the roots were looking. I didn't know as I am still fairly new to orchids but as I have been researching when to repot I came across this problem and noticed there was a real problem. Watered it once a week when all the roots were silver and I tried really hard never to leave them in standing water or anything when I noticed the mold I tried watering less so that the mold could die off as it's not getting favorable conditions but didn't work. After it finished blooming I removed the media and put it in fresh media and the bark looked really broken down and had a smell or it was the roots. Mold was mostly on the bark chips. Some roots were affected but not many some had rotted as it had a moss plug in the Centre so it has probably been in that media way too long. It had a lot of roots though it had overgrown the pot think it was just starting to show signs of stress from the old Media and being cramped. But cut the affected roots Off and repot it not sure of it how it will do. It's been since Sunday.
Thanks for the pointers in this video. I just purchased my first phalaenopsis orchid from the supermarket and I need to repot it. I'll keep you posted on how it progresses.
Hi Brad! This video was really informative. I followed it when I repotted my Phalaenopsis Equestris, and Doritaenopsis "Euro Star", which both were drowning when I got them. The Equestris was simply soaked when it arrived in the mail. The roots were in rough shape, but I expect full recoveries now that I have them in my mini-greenhouse to grow.
thanks for providing such clear and informative tips. you are a good teacher.
Thank you very much for this video! You may have saved my orchid. I got it as a present after my father's passing a couple months ago, and I became concerned when the flowers of only one of it's flower spikes dropped and soon after that spike yellowed. I decided it was time to repot, despite the fact that it's other flower spike was still healthy and in bloom. When I got a good look at it's roots I saw it was in a very similar condition as the plant in this video was, with it's roots tightly bound in a flexible pot exactly like that one. Over half of it's roots were rotten and had to be trimmed off, but after all was said and done my plant has six leaves and one flower spike remaining out of it's original two, and a decent number of yellowed but otherwise healthy looking roots and a couple of normal grey air roots.
Now all I have to do is wait and hope the plant will recover well from this ordeal.
WyrmsRoost happy to help! my most recent video show this one in bloom, it's purple
***** I'll be sure to check that out. :D
Thanks Brad; I am a care giver for elderly people, so many times people give them orchids and when the flower dies the people just leave the plant to die. Recently I took a plant that one of my clients no longer wanted. Your video was very helpful. Now to find a place to buy the medium you used in the repotting videdo.
It would be so interesting to see a follow up video on some of your rescue orchids.
You are an orchid angel. I have had a few orchids planted just in this way and I thought it was normal. I'm very happy to be educated on proper orchid care.
Nice video. I have grown orchids over the years with nothing but luck on my side! I just recently started to get into having them reboot. A trick I had, was when the blooms were gone, I would repot it, and add a small faux silk orchid the same type as the original type of orchid... I have had new shoots come right up against it and bloom...then I take out the faux one. Pretty all year long!
I came back to this after having bought phals at the big box stores with worse roots than this one. The orchid mix they sell but for one at lowes was dreadful as well. So live and learn, I need to find a better phals supplier here in my town! A couple that I repotted in the basic bark medium have survived, better than none!
OMG thanks for rescuing that poor lil Orchid.
You are more than likely feeling like we do. My dad grows award winning phalaenopsis just as a hobby (awards won at orchid club meetings held every month). I wish I'd seen this video a month ago. We go to garden centres SAVING these poor plants, wrapped in cellophane, drowned with so much water, with nowhere to run. Then they have the cheek to charge $40! For an almost dead plant. Thank you for this video. I agree about those cheap pots. I also think they need to quit drowning these poor plants and smothering them with sphagnum. Cheers 😀
Sarah Le Moignan The key is to wait till they discount almost-dead plants. See my story, above. I bought a phalaenopsis at a Kroger grocery store, discounted to $5. The outside container it was in was worth $5, so I figured I couldn't lose. I nursed it back to health.
Here is what you do: Ask to talk to the manager of the store, and tell him he has a bunch of dying orchids that you would like to make an offer on. Shoot low on the price, because he might ask for more. Say maybe $3 or $4 each and if he comes back with a higher price, settle somewhere in between. Good luck!
I do the same thing....All most all of time it works and the manager takes my offer and I would just buy all of them....Managers just want to get rid of them. And that way it save them the time in asking an employee to just throw then in a dumpster....It just breaks my heart to see so many plants just being neglected and throw away when you know they could have been saved....
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So glad that this poor little orchid save by you Brad! Hopefully she makes a fast recovery under your care and love :D Keep us update with her recovery progress :D
Thanks Will, I'll let you know what color it is... Someday, hopefully soon.
@@BradsGreenhouse is there an update on this orchid? 🥰
WOW! Such a beautiful display of oechids
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Hi I'm very new that Orchids growing. So this video has help me to understand growing orchids. I have friend that asking me if i'm crazy to start doing this now. It is toooo costly. Like i have my own saying one life to live do what make you happy. Thank you so much for this video.
Dawn-Marie Thomas thanks for watching!
This was so informative! Thanks! I have to repot both my orchids now. They are both in bad shape like this was but with new growth too so I’m hopeful!
Hi Brad, I loved your presentation. I felt sad to see how badly packed the plant had been. Plants feel and it must have been suffering. I have a phalaenopis and didn't know how to care for it. I appreciate your knowledge and your caring for the plants. I love your greenhouse.
Just repotted my very first Phalaenopsis. Hoping for new growth. Thank you for all the great tips! Ps Loved seeing your puppy in the video I have a white French Bulldog :))
thank you, Brad. Good quality video, good story and explanation.Sure, you will be reworded by this new member of your orchid family with beautiful flowers and great pleasure seeing recovery of the resquid plant
Thank you for such a big help. I think one of my plants (I only have 2) is in this kind of shape, though it's in the original clear plastic pot, so that's at least one good thing. I am a true newbie with all this and have learned a lot.
Judith Byrd
Oh MY Thank You I just repotted (orchid) Mrs. Orchid boy was she in BAD SHAPE so we watched this video and I repotted Her and she watched her By the time we were done she looked happy We will let you know how she does
Shaded Moon, Sphag. moss holds lots of moisture. When you find some, (Garden Centres or online) divide it into plastic clip-lock lunch bags or similar and hang in a fairly bright place, not sun. In a couple of months you'll have much more moss. Sphag moss is expensive where I live so this method helps.
Extremely interesting. Thanks
Hi Brade very beautiful all the orchids which are inside of your house. Awesome
I'm an orchid newbie. Thanks for your helpful videos!
Very good ! even your substrate composition is exellent , a very good standart substrate not only for phalaenopsis.I have no doubt that this plant will bloom in the next 6 months.
I do appreciate your time efforts. Thank You. However as a novice, you loose me with unnecessary and repeated information, bad pots etc. . Its obvious that you are very learned in this topic, and in the same span of time could, more detail on care , and cause. etc Greatly appreciate the quality of the audio and video.
Thank you! Going now to search for a update on this beauty.
Mr. Brad, I still add charcoal to that same media mix you’ve got there. Why don’t people like to use charcoal for phals? My phals are lovely... tons of blossoms on strong plants, but the roots are not as robust as I think they should be. This year my phals went insane! Thanks to your help!!! ( ...and a few other UA-cam Orchid channels.) I was shocked to see that most of my 12 phals have TWO bloom spikes and those spikes have spikes! Totally cool. Sorry, I just HAD to brag a little to SOMEBODY!🤭 Thanks for the great videos as usual! Please, if you possibly could find time, let me know about the charcoal use... or maybe someone else can comment about their feelings on charcoal. I’ve been using it in everything & I would say that everything is looking pretty happy, but I don’t want to jinks myself. 😁😙🤓. Thanks Again & Best Regards from Clearwater, Florida.
Thanks Brad! I have just watched this video and hoping my orchid will make a recovery. It was nearly as bad as the one you're saving!
Hi Bard
ok great news, will let you know when it arrives thanks again :)
Here is an update on how it is doing now, it is the purple one in this video ua-cam.com/video/6diVon89fmQ/v-deo.html
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Oh, good! :)
YAY!
Brads Greenhouse & Gardening
thanks for update video!
Hi, you have taught me so much. Glad you helped this poor plant.
Thank you for this video. A few months ago I bought a ton of orchids from my local hardware store. Over the last few months they've appeared lush with green leaves, even growing more leaves. But one by one they've just died, dropping all leaves suddenly. I've found your video, and I've done as you've said. Hopefully the remaindered will survive and revive. (they had very few live roots).
THank you again for this video and fingers crossed for my orchids.
I'm a total newbie with orchids (or any other plant for that matter) but I was given a phal for Valentine's Day last year and managed to keep it alive long enough to bloom again this year. It has a ton of aerial roots and leaves (new and old) but is packed very tightly into a flexible pot just like the one here. I can see that the majority of the roots inside the media are rotted. It's definitely time to repot but after watching this video I'm a little scared of what I'll find. Thanks for the tips and wish me luck!
Thanks for the comment, good luck!
Hey brad don't give up on it i believe its destiny is to be one of your best orchids . :) amazing video
Thanks Zach, I hope it is a good color!
Best video that I've seen dealing with my beloved Orchids. Brilliant, so good and well explained that I subscribed. Bravo
Nicely done! It will be a happy plant very soon.
Thanks Andrea
really helpful video to rescue my orchid that is in the same situation
Awesome video for a new orchid owner like me! thanks!
Hi Brad, if this is a Phalaenopsis with no roots it'll be a miracle if it lives... because most don't.
The orchid in your video has a few healthy leaves (in spite of losing the one) and if it had "no roots" that wouldn't be possible.
So it's fair to say it has some roots but they're deteriorating and it's days would've been numbered if you hadn't intervened as you did.
Actually, It's easier to revive an orchid that has roots but no leaves - than it is to revive one with leaves but no roots.
And your remark about the top leaf being smaller than the one below it, "is a bad sign"... Not true Brad.
Of course the top leaf is smaller! They grow bigger over time and it should eventually outgrow the one below it.
The odds of the old bloom spikes blooming again aren't as good as the odds it would bloom sooner if the old spikes were cut.
Your green house may be providing near optimal conditions but even if the stems stay green after the blooms die the annual growth cycle would provide new spikes with more flowers and sooner than the few you might get (if you're lucky) on an old stem. And at two years old... forget about it!
Just curious how this particular orchid turned out. Did it survive and thrive as expected? It would be nice to see a follow up video if possible, thanks.
Why would you bother with the old flower stalk?
@@user-cl5fn2zw5x I had w flower stalks that grew extra branching with flower buds and one grew a kki. I was going to chop the both too but some things came up keeping me too busy, forgetting all about my plants. Came back to all that growth. Also pretty sure I'm getting another baby.
thanks alot for your advice no sales person has ever given me that advice !
Thank you for you in put on how to Repot the Orchids.It was very helpful. Hope I will be able to keep mine going for a very long time.
TY for this very in-depth video!!!!!!!!!!!! I picked up 2 (experimental/my first orchids!) $1 rescues, and I'd like to try to take good care of them XD Your video gives me hope!!!!!!!
Thanks and good luck!
Ahhh Suke Suke I did the same, picking up a $29 Phalaenopsis in a decorative outer pot for $5, and nursed it back to health. The vendor gave a plastic shot glass (actually a double-shot) to water it with weekly to help prevent over-watering, a key to keeping them alive. I water once per week with the shot glass and once a month give the plant a good soak, per other watering instructions I saw on UA-cam. See details below. Good luck with your plants!
alan30189 LOL, thankyou!!!! I didn't think of that-- using a small measuring container to limit overwatering, LOL. You're the best :D
Ahhh Suke Suke No problem. How are your orchid rescues doing?
Plant criminals; selling and promoting plants are able to grow in conditions that they cannot possibly survive, so that when they die you either move onto easier plants or keep buying and trying your hand at the bound to fail, overpotted orchids that rot at the roots. I'm glad you have good skill with orchid growing.
Yeah totally, the pot was seriously 6lb's of heavy muck!
I didn't have much root that was salvageable, but it still looks very healthy. I'm allowing the bottom to air dry, then I will follow these instructions. I may just drill into a tree limb I've been saving, and put the medium and orchid in that.
Thanks for good instructions & information .
Recieved an orchid not too long ago from a coworker who grows them, had nice media and made me inimidated to touch it as I had known nothing of orchids. I have left it alone for about 3 months now and the last two flowers just fell, the media looks to be rotting. But thanks to you I can have some confidence in reviving this orchid and hopefully expanding my garden to contain clones and more elaborate orchids, like vanilla.
This may be tedious for you but could you do an update on how much better it did?
I just love seeing the flurry of roots that you have carefully cultivated.
Thank you so much, I learned a ton of great information! I appreciate your time!
Hi Brad. very new orchids owner here.loved your video .thanks for sharing. Moira Australia
Brad, you are amazing. Thanks so much for your tutorials
Thank you so much for helping me learn how to care for my orchid's root system! Now to find info on what to do about yellowing leaves...
thank you so much! you have a lovely gentleness.... plants love you!
Love -Reiki
I just bought an orchid today and it had some rotten roots too! Now I know what to do thank you so much! What's your update? Has it bloomed yet?
Thanks Brad, your tutorials are really informative, I have one Phal which was given to me as a gift so I'm very much a novice, I've had some lovely blooms this summer and I would never have been brave enough to prune the stems without watching your previous video and now I know how to repot when the time comes, I'm in the UK so have to allow for our different temperature here but so far my lovely Orchid seems to like it's home, lots of natural light but out of direct sunlight, I'll be sure to keep watching to pick up more of your helpful tips
Thank you for this very helpful video!
Love your channel thank You!!!! Your green house aweee
Is there an update to this orchid? Would love to see how it's doing now!
read comments b4 yours
Thank you!! I was able to bring my almost dead orchid back after almost killing it... Thanks for this explanation!!
That's awesome! Im so glad to hear that
@@BradsGreenhouse
Hello Brad is there any update video for this orchid would like to hear from her. Your video are so usefull to me thank you very much.
fantastic thorough explanation and repotting thank you. thank you for sharing
Hi Brad i Like ur medium mix, seems very appropriate in singapore weather :)
Brad..your videos are very informative and you give lots of valuable information...thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Really great segment!
thanks Brenda!
Nice Garden
Great video. I'm about to transfer several to the same colored design pots and now I know what to do. Thx
For me, after taking all rubbish away and I wash the plant completely and let it little bit dry and repot it with moss or tree bark in Hongkong. It is actually healthy and not passed away in such a long period of time if it were in Hongkong, it gone long ago. Here is very wet in Hongkong and your area is good for orchids. Grow easily for orchids of any kind
Thank you for your well explained video, I just got two Miltoniopsis orchids (it says Miltonia on the sticker). They have a wonderful fragrance, I learned a lot from you just now.
80 degrees ahhh the days of spring and summer how nice and how luck y for you Brad. One of the pahls I rescued from the big box store was just like that I did everyting you have done except I used rooting hormone on the tips of the cut roots just to sterlize and stimulate new root growth
You went above and beyond! I'm sure it will recover just fine.
I have a soft spot for them when I see they are in dire need . I just got back from the vets office and I saw an Oncidium on the desk with shrivled pseudo bulbs and proceeded to tell the secretaries how to save it and what to do with it , they thought it was a lily lol
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hey, I tried buying the orchid mix but the website says it won't ship organic material outside of Canada. :/ that's a bummer.
Thank you so much for the video, because of you I was able to take proper care of my orchid before it was too late.
That's crazy, the leaves are so beautiful but it wouldn't bloom. Most of my leaves don't ever look great, but my plants bloom and bloom. I hope that it comes back ♥
Thank you so much for that so needed repotting video, you make it seem so very easy.
great vid Brad, just what I needed to see, they do the same thing here in AU too with display pots of Phala's , better get out and do what you have just done, but its 43c here so probable just a bit to hot to do it now. they actually died off and now growing back again :)
Glad I could help, still that hot over your way wow! Oh I just mailed you something last week, so it should get to you shortly. I was a little later dropping by the post office.
Great explanation step by step. Thanks!
Poor girl, that's a bad case of root rot but I think it will make a good recovery as well! I hate the orchids that are sold in these planters, expensive like it has gold in the pot, yet most of them come with problems already :( wonder what color it will be :D
I know! I'm excited to see what color it is as well! I have no idea...
*****
I love getting orchids and not knowing the colour, I have about 7 off my housemate now, as when they stop flowering hes not interested anymore! I hope your friends doesn't see this, she'll feel terrible haha!
Sophie Eccleston
I just acquired a phal from my nursery on the way cheap because it wasn't blooming and discovered that she's got a friendly little flower stem creeping up already. I'm so excited to see what color might be coming! :D Suprise colors are the best!
I have one like this too, but I have had it about two years maybe more and it still hasnt flowered! im trying everything haha!
MissOrchidG
Nice ty
Your green house is beautiful!
Awesome vid! Very informative, I think I now have a chance at keeping an orchid.
Very well done,
Just bought my first ever Orchid at 80 years of age, have no idea what the name of it is, already learned a lot from your video, its planted in a square glass container with no opportunity to drain, so watering will be done very sparingly, any advice would be welcome,
Edmund............Alberta
repotting it in a plastic pot with holes would be more convenient, you get to see the roots, it drains well and the roots get air circulation! congrats on your first orchid ! is it doing well?
Hello Danny,
I'm not too sure about that all the flowers were up at the top of a long stem, and we had 6 buds appear and they all flowered, but over time they fell off, now we just have the stem, when we purchased it it had 3 leaves it now has another 3 very nice healthy looking leaves with a nice deep tunnel down the centre, having no idea really what I am doing, I'm hoping another stem might appear, we have it in the kitchen window facing east, it seemed to be doing ok there, at one point my wife had to place a clip to support it, the stem actually didn't break but got a fold in the stem because of the weight of the flower cluster at the top of stem, any advise would be welcome, its still in the glass container,
Walter Maisey Hello Walter,
That should be expected usually store bought orchids tend to lose their flowers after their placed in a new environment so its okay, you should wait a while for the stem to see if it will regrow another spike ( stem ) that will flower more orchids! If not then the stem should be cut not from the bottom but 3 inches up and it will be okay :) also make sure you provide adequate watering in its roots every 7 days or when the roots have a silvery shiny appearance to them, look up orchid feeding videos but first I have to ask what type of orchid is it, does it appear to look like a moth ( the flowers have a moth appearence ) then it will be a common phalaenopsis
Danny,
I should have taken a photo, it looks very much like a Speckled Phalaenopsis, I'm going to take your advice and re-pot it, they truly are amazing plants and completely opposite to the norm, would you recommend a nice Sphagnum Moss for instance,
Walter Maisey oh great it sounds like a phalaenopsis! Sure repot it ! I do that every time a plant is done blooming, you are correct Walter orchids are delicate and require attention and work but the pay off is awesome when they bloom 😊🌼🌻🌺 I would recommend a nice mixed media for your orchid, quarter wood chips, spagnum moss, perlite, and charcoal. They usually already sell orchid soil in bags at hardware stores like home depot, Lowes or any store up in Alberta that sells orchid supplies :) also try amazon you get good deals! I hope this helped Walter I'm happy to help 😊
Very helpful, please keep up the good work in posting these videos!
I would like to ask your advice on a similar problem: I received a Phaelonopsis hybrid as a gift 4 weeks ago and it seems to be somewhat scorched. The leaves were almost completely red when I received the pant but even the roots were different than normal. They werent rotten but they had some weird patches of hairs growing on them and they werent absorbing water (they kept their very pale green-yellowish colour whilst healthy roots should turn green).
I repotted the plant upon receipt, washed its leaves with distilled water and treated it with Mospilan (acetamipride). Now after some days, no improvement is seen in the plant but the leaves started to turn green-yellowish, mushy and wrinkly. 2 bottom leaves turned completely yellow and fell off with a rotten edge so I would have suspected crown rot but I do not see any rotten parts on the plant itself.The orchid is btw from IKEA and as their main expertise is not growing orchids I would suppose this was maybe caused by bad care, maybe the combination of too strong artificial light+too potent fertilizer. Do you have any advice on how to help this poor little plant?
That was a very detailed and awesome tutorial.
thanks I'm new to orchids this really helped
'Just saw your new video. You do an awesome job....always lots of good information. I love your traffic cone pots.
+Donna Forget Thanks!
good video
informative thanks, ihave to watch ot over and over
Grandtastic Video!
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Thank You for sharing your knowledge!
I bought one on sale, upon repotting it all the roots were gone, have it in a make shift green house with spagdom moss. Has three leaves, has firmed up, and growing new roots, still small.
With lopsided plants, have you ever placed a few glass marbles o top to give it stability? I like seeing the roots so I know how dry (or moist) it is. Nice pot-in-a-pot solution! Looks good!