Repotting Question

[tucker85]

Thanks so much for your helpful comment. I do have a greenhouse and so I will place the plant in a large wooden basket. Should I put it under a daily mister, like my Vandas, or treat it more like a Cattleya in a pot (watering about once a week or so)?

Unfortunately, cattleyas in baskets fall somewhere in between vandas and cattleyas in pots. Once a week would not be enough water for a cattleya in an open basket but watering every day is a little too much. Most of my cattleyas are in baskets and I water approximately every other day or about 3 times a week during the summer and twice a week in the winter. Cattleyas need to dry out once or twice a week. They can handle water every day for a short period and they can handle a week without water once in a while. That's what I like about most cattleyas, they're pretty flexible when grown in baskets or on mounts, especially when they establish some good roots. By the way, I like to buy a small slab of cork and break or cut it into 1"-2" pieces and use that to fill in most of the empty space in the basket. Cattleya roots love it. I also use some large chunks of tree fern fiber that you can trim down to any size you need to fill in the space. Also large pieces of lava rock, although that's heavier and makes the basket heavy. I often use baskets on my orchid benches if I don't have space to hang them. Here are a couple of my catts.. The second one has smaller media than I use now.