I ask because I feel like it's not happy. (Current pic at the bottom, progress pics before that for funsies)
It's my only oncidium, rescued a year and a half ago from family as an absolute messy mass, which I divided and kept one of the newest divisions of. The mass hadn't flowered in a couple years, probably, as it was chronically dehydrated and never fed. I had seen it in bloom before though, it's a yellow Dancing Lady type noid:
![Screenshot_20231006_112600_Photos.jpg Screenshot_20231006_112600_Photos.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/41/41710-335a9bb91b1c837f0615888529b90d26.jpg)
Yeah that's the original pot on the left![Face screaming in fear :scream: 😱](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png)
![Screenshot_20231006_112638_Photos.jpg Screenshot_20231006_112638_Photos.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/41/41711-e4f914774e9060556ec7221f1737b9b1.jpg)
It was barely big enough to be a division in July 2022, but I did it anyway.
April 2023:
![Screenshot_20231006_115445_Photos.jpg Screenshot_20231006_115445_Photos.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/41/41712-58395a4277a688817af66dff5957b45f.jpg)
I emergency repotted it two months ago when I realized it was in bad media that had turned to dirt. It hadn't lost many roots thankfully. I put it in Repotme paph/phrag mix because it sounded like that would be tolerated via a Google search. I situated it more sideways to get more roots in the media as it likes to climb and ended up using a bigger pot to make it fit being more sideways (also I'dhad to cut the old pot off, boo). It's in a slotted pot, that I originally kept in a ceramic pot to keep it stable, then decided it needed more airflow so I stopped doing that. I water it a couple times a week while it's hot but will decrease that as things cool down. I feel like it's overpotted for the density of media I chose. Would it be worth it to bother it by slightly unpotting to check roots? Current:
![Screenshot_20231006_115925_Photos.jpg Screenshot_20231006_115925_Photos.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/41/41719-b9efd6582f88fd80dd2a415393d26975.jpg)
![Screenshot_20231006_115955_Photos.jpg Screenshot_20231006_115955_Photos.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/41/41717-99447948f38131b7ccec63dd66cab8d4.jpg)
![Screenshot_20231006_115932_Photos.jpg Screenshot_20231006_115932_Photos.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/41/41718-d297011f9d870562bf911e78b2bee39f.jpg)
![Screenshot_20231006_115949_Photos.jpg Screenshot_20231006_115949_Photos.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/41/41720-0250db62767e4ec8abb8670bbcf2bd87.jpg)
Hard for me to tell if these roots are all alive. I'm kind of suspicious some are not? This is right after watering.
TIA for insight, O knowledgeable ones![Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin: 😁](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png)
It's my only oncidium, rescued a year and a half ago from family as an absolute messy mass, which I divided and kept one of the newest divisions of. The mass hadn't flowered in a couple years, probably, as it was chronically dehydrated and never fed. I had seen it in bloom before though, it's a yellow Dancing Lady type noid:
![Screenshot_20231006_112600_Photos.jpg Screenshot_20231006_112600_Photos.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/41/41710-335a9bb91b1c837f0615888529b90d26.jpg)
Yeah that's the original pot on the left
![Face screaming in fear :scream: 😱](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png)
![Screenshot_20231006_112638_Photos.jpg Screenshot_20231006_112638_Photos.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/41/41711-e4f914774e9060556ec7221f1737b9b1.jpg)
It was barely big enough to be a division in July 2022, but I did it anyway.
April 2023:
![Screenshot_20231006_115445_Photos.jpg Screenshot_20231006_115445_Photos.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/41/41712-58395a4277a688817af66dff5957b45f.jpg)
I emergency repotted it two months ago when I realized it was in bad media that had turned to dirt. It hadn't lost many roots thankfully. I put it in Repotme paph/phrag mix because it sounded like that would be tolerated via a Google search. I situated it more sideways to get more roots in the media as it likes to climb and ended up using a bigger pot to make it fit being more sideways (also I'dhad to cut the old pot off, boo). It's in a slotted pot, that I originally kept in a ceramic pot to keep it stable, then decided it needed more airflow so I stopped doing that. I water it a couple times a week while it's hot but will decrease that as things cool down. I feel like it's overpotted for the density of media I chose. Would it be worth it to bother it by slightly unpotting to check roots? Current:
![Screenshot_20231006_115925_Photos.jpg Screenshot_20231006_115925_Photos.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/41/41719-b9efd6582f88fd80dd2a415393d26975.jpg)
![Screenshot_20231006_115955_Photos.jpg Screenshot_20231006_115955_Photos.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/41/41717-99447948f38131b7ccec63dd66cab8d4.jpg)
![Screenshot_20231006_115932_Photos.jpg Screenshot_20231006_115932_Photos.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/41/41718-d297011f9d870562bf911e78b2bee39f.jpg)
![Screenshot_20231006_115949_Photos.jpg Screenshot_20231006_115949_Photos.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/slippertalk/data/attachments/41/41720-0250db62767e4ec8abb8670bbcf2bd87.jpg)
Hard for me to tell if these roots are all alive. I'm kind of suspicious some are not? This is right after watering.
TIA for insight, O knowledgeable ones
![Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin: 😁](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png)