phalenopsis gigantea

[catasetum-ian]

What media is in the pot? Looks like a good enough idea to me as long as the media in the pot isn't anything that would be a cause of worry later on.
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its in 90% charcoal with 10% moss.

Soak the entire pot for a good 15 minutes. Then wrap the pot with a dish towel or small bath towel and take a hammer and smash the pot (gently). Remove the towel and pick away any big pieces of the clay pot that remain. The pieces that are still stuck to roots can be left attached. I do this with cattleyas all the time. Those cattleya roots dig into clay pots and are almost impossible to remove without damaging the roots. So, we just let them hang on to the smallest pieces possible when repotting. Good luck!
cheers,
BD

did with the soaking but did not go to the banging part i will leave the damaging the root part option to the last in the list,

I was wondering what sort of care you gave the gigantea. I've wanted one for a long time and just figured i'd kill the tiny one's I see offered. Are they difficult??

for seedlings i planted them in 90% charcoal and 10% moss. after that i mount them on fern roots. caring is pretty much like other phals i had. so far gigantea are easy to care for and hardy for me. they love to be mounted on fern roots, in fact most phals do.