Some years ago hydroponics was quite popular because caring for plants was made easy, especially watering. Even orchids, in most cases Phalaenposis, were offered in hydroponics. Classical hydroponics with two pots (cache pot and inner pot) and indicator for watering did not gain acceptance and today you will not find orchids in hydroponics any more.
Inspired by members of our Facebookgroup Orchitopworld we started to think about hydroponics in combination with our Orchitop and we became aware of the following advantages:
Convinced by the theoretical advantages we repotted in June 2014 a flowering Phalaenopsis-hybrid Copper Buddha.
The photo on the left shows the plant directly after repotting. At the beginning we filled in a 2-3 cm layer of clay pebbles as we do with bark mixes before we put in the plant. But this layer was too high for hydroponics, so the plant could not catch enough water. We repotted the plant again and filled in only a one-pebble-layer. After this modifikation it worked without any problems. The plant was growing very fast and built a new leaf.