Sunday, March 28, 2010

Replate or not?

I was wondering whether replating was the right idea. I replated some of the orchid babies, and for a time, it seemed like the ones I left alone were doing a bit better. However, the tide has turned. Here, at the same scale, is a plant that was not replated, versus one that was. The replated plant is doing much better than the other.

Here is the one left on the mother media:


And here is the replated one. As you can see, it is much larger:


According to the manufacturer, the replate media has fertilizer components at about 2x that of the mother media. And the replate media adds powdered banana as well. Clearly, the orchids like the richer media. Lesson learned. I've transplanted the remaining babies onto replate media. We're going to have lots of very healthy orchids, at this rate.

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