Potting new natural way

[samurdhifarms]

plastic pot replaced with coconut husk
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[Ramakumar]

I am from India and have been growing from the past 10 years
Have been active with our orchid society for the last 7 years
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[Chris in Hamilton]

I am from India and have been growing from the past 10 years
Have been active with our orchid society for the last 7 years
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Welcome Ramakumar! You can start your own introductory thread here http://www.rv-orchidworks.com/orchid...duce-yourself/ if you'd like.

[ksriramkumar]

Hello and Welcome from fellow Indian. Where are you from?

[samurdhifarms]

[QUOTE=ksriramkumar;447758]Hello and Welcome from fellow Indian. Where are you from?
sir,
i am from kottayam kerala
i am working in agriculture department as tech officer
havinng a small orchid farm my 20 years orchid experience

[JDT]

Welcome from Florida! I have seen orchids in coconut shells but have never had one potted that way!

[raybark]

Welcome to the group!

If we want to be picky, we can safely say that using coconut products isn't truly a "natural" way of growing them, as the are no orchids that grow that way naturally. (When I routinely gave lectures on semi-hydroponics to orchid societies, I often heard "it's not natural", so I simply asked when was the last time that individual had seen an orchid growing in fir bark or coconut husk chips in nature?)

[Dorsetman]

I saw Vanda teres ( now in a different genus) grown that way at Kandy Botanical Gardens, in Sri Lanka - so long ago that it was then called Ceylon ( about 1967 ) when I first visited .
More recently, maybe 2006 or 7 , I bought a lot of Dendrobium Hybrids from a nursery in Bangkok, and that eas an enormous place : they mostly sold cut flowers , and measured their sales in the number of tonnes sold each month- I recall that it was 3 tonnes the month I was there . They told me that I could select the plants I wanted and gave me a list of bench numbers to visit for my order . There were almost 2000 benches, each maybe 12 metres long , and - this is the point - their growing technique was to chop the top off a green coconut and drop a seedling inside..Coconut milk is a well known ingredient ro add to Agar in flasking - I gues it is full of nutrients.
So, nothing new under the sun, as they say .

[Yug]

I was also tempted to point that out, Ray, but I figured I'd just not fight that battle.

[raybark]

Naaah. No battle, just a humorous point of view.