Orchids in water?

I am not very good with plants... at least not indoor plants.
I love gardening and taking care of the outdoor mini wildlife haven that I had when I had a garden back in Sweden. I believe gardening should be something where the garden is a wildlife oasis, creating a refuge for bugs, hedgehogs, birds and other little creatures that may want to take up residency.
I used to study local plants and try to introduce them best possible and never used pesticide but instead tried to bring in the favourite plants of the arch enemy of whatever pests I might have had.
The garden was wild and beautiful (in my eyes) at the same time.
A wild growing garden does not mean you can just neglect it, a wild garden needs lots of care too.
One of my very favourite gardens to look to for inspiration at the time was Tasha Tudors garden, you can't come closer to a fairy tale garden than hers.

Now, living in Hong Kong, I don't have the luxury of a garden. And I don't have the same love for indoor plants, I find them boring and a bit sad. Like an animal in the zoo, doomed to die in misery locked into my small flat.
I have so far never managed to keep any indoor plants healthy. Currently I am the caretaker of a very sad Bouganvillea (this one would be very much happier outdoor in Hong Kong but I have nowhere outdoor to put it), a Passiflora which surprisingly seems to be having a revival and three near dead Orchids.

The orchids have been standing on my kitchen counter for a few weeks, that is the halfway point, by that I mean halfway to the trash. But last week I came past a post about putting your Orchids in water to make them bloom all year round (can't seem to find that post again) on further research I came across this site.
That's it I thought, seems much easier than the not too little not too much watering that people normally say Orchids need. I uprooted all of them and noticed that the roots on one of them where completely rotten and on the second one only one root remained green and alive looking. The third one had some kind of weird insect egg looking kind of fungus going on in it's root system but it was the one out of all of them that had the healthiest root system in tact.
I cut of all the rotten roots on all of them and cleaned the remains with some soap, on the worst one all that remained was a stump, on this one the leaves where all shriveled as well and it was and is generally in a very poor state.

I popped them all into jars holding distilled bottled water and they've been there for three days now. They don't look any better yet but they also don't look any worse either.
I smell the water every day to check if it is rotting and so far it's been fine so I've just added a bit more water where it had evaporated and that's all.
It's actually very exciting, much more exciting than regular orchid keeping.... this is an experiment, not just boring old watering. I can't wait to see what's going to happen, it's almost like playing the lottery, I might win or I might loose, no one knows.
The best thing about it is actually that they look great in water. The roots look beautiful on the one that still has them and it's so cool that they are visible.
Even the stump looks cool in water!

According to what I've read it should take around 3-4 months for new roots to really have started growing, I will keep you updated on how it is going.
If this works then I think it's the way to go if you are not good with watering Orchids the regular way, this is way easier!