I will water when dry, and often will allow the plant (and pot) to soak in a bowl/cup of water for an hour or more. The objective here is to create a humid barrier around the base of the plant so that new roots have a fighting chance in my low-humid house. I don’t want it too thick, but thick enough that I can’t see the substrate underneath, and I want the paph to be sunk into the moss. I’ll finish of by placing a layer of spahgnum moss on the top of the potting mix. I’ll use a chop stick to push any extra medium into the air gaps around the sides. I’ll put the roots of the plant in and then fill with the remaining potting mix. Next I’ll fish out 3-5 long strands of sphagnum moss and dangle them into the pot so they’re spaced evenly around the edge of the pot with the length dangling into the middle and the other half hitched at the top, or hanging out (i want these strands to hold water a little longer in the substrate). Next I’ll put a small layer of the medium. I’ll put extra charcoal in the bottom of the pot to suck up any junk if the water happens to sit at the end of a watering. Potting the Paphiopedilum in the New Medium Next, I’ll add a light dusting of the rock dust to the top, as well as a light sprinkle of the palmgain fertilizer and mix it all in to the medium. I wash each material and then mix the hard compounds together (bark, perlite, pumic, and charcoal). *Used as a top-dressing to hold humidity in to the root zone and to double as a “water now” tip when the sphagnum is crispy-dry Canadian Peat Moss – 5% (optional, for longer water retention if the media is drying out faster than a week).(btw, this ‘best mix’ is according to nobody else but me) I will update this page if I change my mix. I had a bitch of a time trying to find this information on the web, but this post on SlipperTalk is what got the ball rolling (so thank you to the countless people who share their experience).
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