To go with the one posted by Dodidoki.
This plant has been through the wars.
Last winter it had zero roots after I had failed to repot it for a number of years, just a few black stubs.
In desperation I sat it in a container that held it tight and added water up to the level of the rhizome. Something I had come across on the net for cymbidium back bulbs with no roots.
It sat like that for a couple of months and then in spring a bunch of new roots appeared, so it was repotted into my usual orchiata.
Things then developed normally and the pot is now full of vigorous white roots and it’s given me two blooms.
I call that a result. I don’t know whether the water treatment was any better than just sitting the plant in sphagnum when it was rootless.
David
This plant has been through the wars.
Last winter it had zero roots after I had failed to repot it for a number of years, just a few black stubs.
In desperation I sat it in a container that held it tight and added water up to the level of the rhizome. Something I had come across on the net for cymbidium back bulbs with no roots.
It sat like that for a couple of months and then in spring a bunch of new roots appeared, so it was repotted into my usual orchiata.
Things then developed normally and the pot is now full of vigorous white roots and it’s given me two blooms.
I call that a result. I don’t know whether the water treatment was any better than just sitting the plant in sphagnum when it was rootless.
David