@sueinmn Great news, Sue. I can order through Amazon as a Prime member. And I'll try braiding my orchid's Rapunzel trailers!

@sueinmn, @artist76, @mayofeb2020, @contentandwell, Well, I've used bark mostly for my orchids, but Sue, I'm trying the orchid mix I have in my garden storage. Do you use bark at all, on top? And artist, I never thought to braid a one. But, might do a loving, gentle little braid or wrap after I spray the roots when, watering. I mostly, just enjoy seeing them grow.

I have a Vanda hanging outside on my crepe myrtle tree, inside the tree next to the wooden fence to protect agains wind and cold. The roots love it and grow pretty fast now that I'm watering more regularly, since I'm more active. They attach to the fence and the limbs and anything in the way of their movement. So, I move things around to keep them from attaching to pots of petunias or whatever! They're invasive little buggers.....love my orchids. I get some from the nursery when they're almost giving them away before throwing away. Can't stand the thought of tossing a living plant.....so, I pay a few dollars and let it die at my home and then toss it!

But, some do survive. Vanda is one. She almost died, but loves it since I put her outside and has doubled in size and bloomed a couple of times. Loves the humidity. She was blooming just before my son got ill a couple months ago....new bloom just peaking out....had a cold snap, 2-3 days below 30, and I lost the blooom. I was too busy to get it inside and protect it. Vanda did well, the bloom didn't. She'll bloom again.

I was friends years ago with a dear woman in Jax who was an orchid diva. Mary wrote a great litlle book on the care and love of orchids, and was considered the ultimate. Need to find her book upstairs and read.....I water mine about every 7-10 days, like Sue. Learned the hard way to be tough....love them for real, do what they need to survive, thrive, not what I want for them to make them happy and end up killing them with 'love'. Wrong kind of love!

Sue, due you spray them or run them under water and sit to drain in pan or just put in pan to drink? I do combination. Spray my hanging Vanda, water potted babies and let them drain into pots. Now, thank you very much, I guess I have to repot tomorrow! They do need it.
blesssings to you each.elizabeth