Vanda brunnea

Some while ago I moved my vandas from glass vases to the clay pots with some chc around the roots. Vanda brunnea was one of them.
I am glad to see that it was not a bad decision:



All plants show some nice root growths and now I don't have to fill those vases every day. It is enough to water them every third day.
One concern - roots do grab on to the clay, so when the time comes to get a larger pot, I might end up just placing old pot into the new one, so to not disturb the roots.

Getting rid of vases

I grew most of my vandas in the glass vases for about a year. It requires watering at least once a day, for the best results - twice.
While it was fine at the beginning when I only had couple, quickly it became a chore - when number of vandas grew up to thirteen.
I tried several of them in the clay pot with chc and it seems to be working.
So I made a transfer.
If roots system is good - I just curled roots into a clay pot and added a handful of chc. When there is not much of roots, I tied plant to plastic vanda basket, added chc there and put basket into pot.




Now I have only Vanda tessellata in a glass vase because her roots are too awkward to fit into pot.

Vanda brunnea

It is just a seedling, came from Cloud's orchids. It lives in a glass vase. Probably many years before flowering: