Phals can successfully be grown mounted, potted in plastic pots or in clay pots, with, or without slots, and even in semi-hydro culture.� It depends on your growing conditions, your watering tendencies, and the medium you use.� Think of it in terms of the needs of the plant.� Phals, not having much in the way of water storage capacity, like to stay evenly moist.
If you grow in very humid conditions, or if you grow in a medium that REALLY holds water well, or if you prefer to water frequently, then there is no reason not to grow in slotted, clay pots.
Absolutely. But this book is being sold to beginners in Zone 5, not experienced growers in South Florida. Around here, with our low winter humidity, if you tried to grow a Phal in a clay pot by watering it more frequently, you would end up with dessicated root tips and rotten mush in the middle of the root ball. Aside from the Phal potting question, the pots sitting together on the damp pebbles, exchanging bush snails, fungus spores, & who knows what else, is bad enough.
Iris
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