I separated the leads and trimmed the dead parts. The leads were mounted on cork. Given the length of the rhizome they may turn out to be too small, but I have sometimes seen species with long rhizomes in the pot grow shorter on a mount. We shall see.
The backbulbs were broken up into small groups. I often do single pseudobulbs for backbulb sprouting, but these seemed weak and I don't have experience with this species. There were four pieces and I put these in a community pot.
I wanted to try sprouting these in bark rather than sphagnum. To avoid having a pot full of soggy bark I filled the pot about 3/4 with foam peanuts. On top of that a layer of sphagnum, thin but fully covering the peanuts so bark would not fall through. I arranged the pieces on top of the sphagnum and filled in loosely with small bark. The idea is that the roots will have a choice to go into the wetter sphagnum layer or the dryer bark layer. Once I know which they like better I can adjust for the next time I work with this species.
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