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Orchid DIY

Here’s an easy step by step showing how to plant an orchid on a board with General Hydroponics Coco Coir

Repot your orchid only after it blooms. With sharp scissors, cut the spent stems.

Remove the orchid from its pot, and gently remove the bark from the roots.

Wrap wire around two opposing corners of a square or rectangular piece of wood.

Lay a clump of sphagnum moss in the center of the board.

Lay a generous handful of GH coco coir fibers, slightly moistened, on top of the moss.

Add the orchid and another big handful of coco.

The last layer is more moss.

Secure the plant and growing media with a crisscrossing of wire. Loop it from one corner to the other and back again until the plant is held in tight.

Now hang the whole thing up somewhere, and feed the orchid regularly with Flora Nova.

Comments

Comment from Red Icculus
Time March 24, 2009 at 3:00 pm

You had a post about orchids in coir. Was it straight up coir or a mix like this?

Comment from Tiger Lilly
Time March 24, 2009 at 4:54 pm

When planting them in pots, I’d use the “Chip Brick.” That way they wont be as waterlogged. But the coco fibers here are straight “Coir”. Those are the GH terms. I think the orchid post with the poster saying to grow in coir, used the broader definition of coir, which is any fiber in between the coconut husk and outer shell. GH offers three different types, coir, mixed, and chip, but all of those medias qualify as coir.

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