Cattleya aclandiae considering a mounting project

[poetiscariot]

You know how sometimes you get just tremendously attached to a particular plant? Mine is a little C. aclandiae I got last summer. I haven't even bloomed it yet but it's a.) adorable and b.) apparently impervious to my occasionally substandard care. It's like a VW Beetle and the Fonz united and turned into an orchid. I love it. I'm thinking about moving it from its 2" pot with very big bark to a mount of one sort or another, since I'm told that it's one that "likes to ramble."

First question: I grow under a CFL in my living room with a humidity tray. Bit concerned that that situation would be too dry even for C. aclandiae, though, if it weren't potted to hold at least some humidity. Thoughts?

Second question, which may be an obvious one but I'm missing the answer if it's already on here somewhere: once you mount an orchid, do you ever remount it as you would repot one? Do tree fern slabs, etc., break down like bark mix?

Third question: has anyone used ceramic mounts, and if so, what do you think of them?

Thanks for any advice!


Victoria