Using Wine Corks as orchid medium

A few orchids i have recieved have had both red and white wine corks used in the media. The one the catt was on was red wine too. When i queried about acidity, the response was

"Soak for a week in 2 parts lime (the ground CaCO3, not the fruit) and 3parts untreated water (if you dont have untreated water, stand it for about 4 days to let the chlorine and fluoride diffuse out as gas). Drain every two days and replace."

It works a treat! And use it for white and red corks, because even though red wine is more acidic, that is caused by the tannins, and white wine as only slightly les acidic.

As I am the sort of person who is always willing to help other orchid enthusiasts, I would like it known that I am willing to help all those who use wine bottle corks as a potting medium.

Send me your bottles of wine and I will guarantee to send back your corks ready to use.

I prefer whites but I can handle reds and fortifieds. Satisfaction guaranteed!

Scrubber

lol.....

I have a few home-made cork mounts. What I do is I set them side by side and form a sort of mat. I run laundry wire through the center of each of them sideways, upwards and downwards to keep them together. I prefer it this way than using the glue gun as they stay better and are more robust and long-lasting.

Great responses Using them to make a mount is a pretty cool idea.

Would the glue used on the cork board, be detrimental to the orchid? The glue would have to be one of the strong kind, which usually have a chemical background? heh?

The glue I use is water based no more nails. I use the same to glue plants on to flat sheets if compressed cork.

Thanks for that. We have that glue here.