Limp Leaves

OK, that's where the new rescue is. My nearly rootless babies are in a bright indirect nothern window now.

I may move them to the East after I've gotten them potted in the new mix and orchid pots. Should be tomorrow!!

 

My East window has a lot of plants and there's a grapevine outside that goes over an arch. Depending on time of day and year it's very sunny mornin' sun, diffused thanks to the grapevine and then just bright indirect.

 

Yesterday I took my 2 lil one's out of the mix completely. I put wet papers towels in the bottom of 2 clear cups, set the plants on top of each cup, roots in, then I tented a big gallon size zip lock over each. They both have very little in the way of under ground roots. Mostly they have aerial roots. I'm not sure if those will go into the mix or not? Should I get some moss and try getting these to produce more roots before potting them?

 

Earwig, well, I've still not seen any others. Anything I should worry about?

 

Well, I pulled out most of it anyway, I'm hoping to change it today.

 

Yay!! The bark is here and it looks great!!


I've filled 3 cups with the mix and am letting it soak up water b4 using it.


This is the ingredients


This is the tented phals I'm about to repot. I hope they will love it!!

 

Went ahead with repotting into the mix. I also misted with that mild mist on feed I ordered.



They really have pretty much no white roots beneath, one has one but I'm not sure how healthy it is. The other has some greenish ones that may have been aerial but are more or less just under that bark now.

It's all I can do! Will leave them alone now and check for dryness next week. :-D

 

Carkin, I'm goin' to take that like as approval that I've done good! :-D

 

Yay!! Thanks so much!! I have another thread started about the Walmart phal I saved. If you don't mind, I'd love some feedback on that one! :-D

Y'all have all been a wonderful source. I went into my repotting project this afternoon feeling fully confident that I knew what to do! :-D

 

The leaves actually went limp from getting too dry, then I thought oh soak it, and that's when I learned from here I'd messed up. Once I took them out of what I potted them in a year ago, I saw I'd lost nearly all the roots. They were just empty. Looked like paper to me. I've learned a lot. The bark I'm using does have pine in it, but also fir and some charcoal. It looks great to me. Now that I've got them in that I can water and feed according to what I've learned on here and basically every thing I could find to read on the subject. Thanks so much for the advice!!! I'll be sure to update!!

 

Hi y'all!

So I watered Wed. One week after potting in the bark. Here's a pic from Thursday


Someone who saw this pic said the bark looked too dry and I agreed. I've got them soaking in a little water now, just the bottom of the cups, where there's really no roots. Then tented a clear bag over them. There's water in the humidity tray too. I'll drain the excess water from the cups in a bit, I just felt they didn't get enough water soaked into the bark and the aerial roots were always looking pretty dry every morning. I'd been misting, but, I think tenting is going to help.

Just lookin' for some reassurance here :-D

 

Thanks :-D
I've not seen any others since the day we brought the plant home.