So What Happens Now?

[brit6v]

I'm sorry....I meant to say Connie AND Cathy!!!

By the way, Connie...your info and photos have helped me, as well. Thanks.[/QUOTE]

Thank you, Susie.....we'll be waiting for pictures when you have blooms later. That's always exciting. I agree that your potting job was well done. I'm sorry, but I cannot comment on the small balls, as I've not experienced them before or even read about them. For future reference, though (just in case you happen upon a probably different type of small ball), I have read that some growers (before you obtain the orchid) fertilize with a type of small ball, but yours do not look like them, as far as I have seen pictures of and read about.

Someone else more experienced than I please correct me if I have given Susie incorrect info. I don't want to lead her down the wrong path.

Good growing,
Vicki (aka brit6v)

By the way, Connie...your info and photos have helped me, as well. Thanks.

[jsehorn]

I'm pretty sure the gray balls are just time-release fertilizer. I've seen gray time release fertilizer before. Slime mold would be, well... slimy, not solid like that.