Monica Penders
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My Paphiopedilum Pinocchio that I've had for many years, has grown really big. In fact last spring I repotted it for the first time ever, as I realized that this poor plant had been neglected for years. I was about time for a repot. The dilemma I faced was: to repot into a bigger pot or split the plant and have 2 or 3 of them. I would have preferred splitting it up, simply because it's also got some old dead growths (what do you call it on a Paph, it's not a pseudobulb?) right in the middle. However, the plant had a flower spike coming up, and I was afraid of splitting it up right then.
To be honest I could have waited with repotting it, but my realization was that I'd had this Paph for years and it had NEVER been repotted, after reading online about decomposing orchid media, I could only imagine how bad it must be. My other orchids, the Phals were in pretty poor condition, in some cases the media had white spots which I think must have been some sort of mould.
Anyway so I repotted the Paph into a larger pot, and my idea was to repot it again once it's done blooming. Now it's done blooming. However now I'm doubting what to do. Should I repot it again and split it? Or should I wait until spring, and then a year will have passed since it's last repot?
What I'd also like to add is that I repotted it in large bark (since I only had one type of bark because of the Phals) and spaghnum moss and perlite. I went to an orchid nursery a few weeks ago and they showed me what they plant their Paphs in, and they used a mixture of small and large bark and perlite. I asked them about spaghnum moss and they thought that it's too cold for the Paph that they don't like to get cold roots, something like that, and they said only to use a small percentage of it. I suppose it also does depend on where you live, but yeah we have cooler climate here in northern Europe and during the largest part of the day I'm not home and so the heating is also not on. It's mostly between 20C-19C (68-66.2F).
Any suggestions? I'll attach some pictures from last spring (this was in April I believe) when I repotted it for the first time.
To be honest I could have waited with repotting it, but my realization was that I'd had this Paph for years and it had NEVER been repotted, after reading online about decomposing orchid media, I could only imagine how bad it must be. My other orchids, the Phals were in pretty poor condition, in some cases the media had white spots which I think must have been some sort of mould.
Anyway so I repotted the Paph into a larger pot, and my idea was to repot it again once it's done blooming. Now it's done blooming. However now I'm doubting what to do. Should I repot it again and split it? Or should I wait until spring, and then a year will have passed since it's last repot?
What I'd also like to add is that I repotted it in large bark (since I only had one type of bark because of the Phals) and spaghnum moss and perlite. I went to an orchid nursery a few weeks ago and they showed me what they plant their Paphs in, and they used a mixture of small and large bark and perlite. I asked them about spaghnum moss and they thought that it's too cold for the Paph that they don't like to get cold roots, something like that, and they said only to use a small percentage of it. I suppose it also does depend on where you live, but yeah we have cooler climate here in northern Europe and during the largest part of the day I'm not home and so the heating is also not on. It's mostly between 20C-19C (68-66.2F).
Any suggestions? I'll attach some pictures from last spring (this was in April I believe) when I repotted it for the first time.