I’m always requesting follow up updates from other posters, and I realized I’ve neglected to update on some of my questions in the past! I was having trouble with a paphiopedilum that kept growing roots way too high above the media. They would sprout and immediately dry out, regardless of every attempt to keep moisture around them. The new growth was running out of nodes, and I was worried that both the mother fan, and the new fan would just slowly die off. I decided to clip the new fan below one of the nodes where roots had yet to dry out. I put it in a little pot of sphagnum moss that I keep damp all the time. This is the result… Roots sprouted, and have continued to grow longer than any other attempt while still attached to the mother fan. I know it’s going to be a very long time before I can pop this in terrestrial medium, and an even longer time until it’s strong enough to create a new growth and eventually bloom. But I think I saved it. Which was the best I could hope for in this scenario.