I have known for a long time that Vanda orchids grow with their roots totally exposed and trailing out of the baskets... but it took actually buying a gorgeous, full sized Vanda, to then motivate me to read up about them and understand them better. It turns out that there are different types of Vandas - strap-leaf, terete and semi-terete. Here are some useful resources:
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| The gorgeous Vanda Somsri Glory |
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| Roots of the new Vanda trailing down from the basket |
In reading more, I realised that the Vandeae tribe has many different subtribes and genuses and that in fact I already had some of these - Aerides, Neofinetia.
In fact, I have already had quite a lot of success with my
Neofinetia Falcata - and that was also growing with very little media around its roots... I also then realised that I had probably been incorrectly stifling the roots of the
Aerides Flabellata that I've had for a while...
SO.... armed with this realisation, I decided bravely (and totally against my best instincts to keep roots covered!) to remove all the
vandeaeous plants from their media and leave their roots trailing...
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| Vanda coerulescens plantlet purchased in March 2015 |
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| Unknown Vanda seedling purchased in Singapore |
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| Aerides Flabellata |
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| Purple Neofinetia purchased March 2015 |
Will be monitoring them closely to see what happens!
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