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Welcome from coastal NC

I agree with Tony. The question, it seems, is not which paphs are free-flowering, but which are fastest-growing.

LECA accumulates minerals and biofilm..It needs to be replaced periodically. What "periodically" means is highly variable.

Not "semi-peloric"; deformed.

Last time I saw him, Steve was using what I'd call a "medium/coarse" fir bark. After a year, there is no visible change in it at all, and that's the point. As roots grow, they "tailor" themselves on a cellular level to function optimally in that environment, and once they have grown, they...

Welcome from coastal NC

That’s just the same distribution map from the USDA.

That distribution map makes me wonder about the source of that info, or maybe its age. It shows it as being native. It could be that it was once found in NC, probably in coastal swamp areas. It’s remarkable how being near a large body of water moderates the temperatures. We live on a...

That is nothing short of spectacular.

I have used two - Inocucor Garden Solution, now sold as Synergro, I think, and Quantum-Total - but with good results and no negatives, other than the smell.

Welcome. What part of NJ? I have lived there 4 separate times, in Asbury Park, Linwood, Linwood again after a couple of years in England, then Jackson Twp.

When I had “the big freeze” in 1994, this was the first replacement plant, given tome by a friend’s father, who had collected it in Central America decades before.

Probiotics may very well help, but rather than picking a specific one and hoping it works, you’d do better to try a multi specific one with broader-spectrum effects.

The pathogen is in the immediate environment. Well, it’s likely in the entire environment around you, but if you periodically disinfect the shade house structure, benches and floor, and kill it in/on your plants, splashing rain drops will have less of a chance of spreading it back to the plants.

Welcome aboard.

Soaking in the same bath is the perfect way to spread pathogens.

Overhead watering, especially with a "water breaker" to simulate rain, in my opinion, is advantageous for three reasons - it wets, flushes and aerates the medium at the same time. The buildup of mineral deposits is inevitable, but it less about watering technique than it is about drying of the...

Generally, I don't use rockwool cubes in S/H culture. The only necessity for it I've seen is when your RH os so low that it dries out the LECA too fast, then, keeping a layer on the top moist can slow the evaporation rate from the LECA. Grodan rockwool is basalt rock that has been melted and...

Phrags can really benefit from pure water, maybe more than most other orchids, but they all do. It was likely the sodium chloride in the softened water that was your prior issue, but "drinking water" may-or may not be particularly "pure". For about less that $100, you can pick up an "RO...

Welcome, Nevin.