My mom was complaining about having fungal gnats in the kitchen. She has several orchids there so this morning I checked them out. It was pretty bad. At least three of them were sitting in a pool of water and had such bad root rot that I had to throw them away. I tried to save the other four by cleaning off the roots, cutting off any black roots that looked rotten and then repotting. I didn’t have any orchid mix and honestly since roots are in pretty bad condition already I didn’t feel like going out and getting an orchid mix for potting them. Instead I used a chunky mix I already have. Do orchids need to just be in bark? If so I’ll go get some this week and transfer them to it. Do you think they can be OK in a chunky potting mix?
