Ah. I am in FL as well. I have never seen the bits. We use the dunks sometimes outside.
Nice looking plants.
When I take new propagations of stuff, it depends on what it is if I pot it up directly, plant it in the ground, or put it in moss. I never use Aliflor (what people call LECA now) except as a soil additive, or, for lithophytes. I grow my Anthurium reflexinerviums in Aliflor.
When I take an offset, which already has its own root system, I just pot it up immediately in mix. Who I take a cutting, I put it in moss until roots grow out the bottom of the container then transfer it. Sometimes I never transfer it. I have plants like Anthurium warocqueaum and Anthurium regale that stay in moss. I also have some mounted plants like Anthurium veitchii, Anthurium, Big Splash and Anthurium vittariifolium that are mounted to substrate base with big pads of moss.
Burle Marx, I grow in soil, I have mine in the ground. SYngoniums general speaking (except the more unusual ones like wendlandii, rayii etc) are weeds here in FL, and will grow in and climb on almost anything. But they prefer well draining soil. They root very well in moss though.
