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Phalaenopsis Orchids
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Nurturing An Orchid Plant |
"Healthy Dendrobiums begin with healthy roots, so these are of the utmost importance to take care of."
Nurturing an Orchid Plant
Orchids, like all living forms, need care for their growth and health. Raising an orchid plant at home or in gardens for commercial benefit, both require the caregiver to understand hindrances that thwart the normal growth and health of the plant. A number of things need to be given care, commonly including: blooming of the plant, using a suitable fertilizer, preventing the plant from fading out, health of leaves, cutting and trimming, and repotting. Though the nurturing needs of an orchid plant depends on which species you are growing, some measures are common to proper caring for orchids in general.
Blooming of Orchids
If your orchid plant is experiencing problems in maturing to bloom in effulgence, the most probable reasons are less than required exposure to light, improper potting, retention of excess water at the roots, and/or absence of optimum level of temperature change. To allow for the best plant bloom, place your orchid plant near the window to get enough light.
If sufficient artificial light is provided, you can place the plant anywhere you want. Repot the orchid plant if you come to detect signs of excessive retention of water at the roots. About ten degrees of daily temperature variation is commendable for proper growth of most orchid species. Water rich in minerals is not suitable for the plant; instead use distilled water or just clear rainwater.
Suitable Fertilizers
An orchid plant, in general, does not respond well to urea-based fertilizers. The use of suitable fertilizer depends on more than one factor including temperature, sunlight, and which particular location you are living in. Get your orchid a fertilizer that is free from urea, if you are unsure.
Fading Out of the Plant
Two types of signs are indicative of fading out of the orchid plant: (1) the leaves develop wrinkles and (2) buds grow yellowish and start falling. Wrinkling of leaves is caused mainly by either insufficient watering or by excessive watering. Check the roots of the plant to see if excess of watering has turned them brown and unusually soft. If so, repot the orchid plant and decrease the frequency of watering.
If lack of water has left them white and firm, provide more water daily. In case the orchid plant is shedding buds that have grown yellow and weak, the amount of water, light, or temperature conditions provided to the plant need be revised.
Remove the plant from the vicinity of sources of heat, placing it in a place where it can get optimum intensity of light. Take care to position the plant in a room with no harmful chemical fumes (paints etc.). Keep from overwatering the plant.
Repotting an Orchid Plant
Repotting an orchid plant requires different considerations in case of different species. As a general rule, repot the plant after a year or two when the roots break the medium. Carefully remove the old mix from the plant roots, rinse the roots, and place it in a new pot. You can cut the hollow or excessively soft parts of the root: they are dead anyway.
The Art Of Making A Silk Orchid Flower
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"Geographically, dendrobium orchids cover regions in Asia, Australia, Thailand, New Guinea, Borneo, and New Zealand."
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Phalaenopsis Orchids Information |
| China's Gold-Mine Wild Orchids Face Extinction (Planet Ark)
BEIJING - Where have all the flowers gone? Over-harvesting fuelled by surging market prices is threatening to wipe out several species of wild orchids in eastern China, some of which command as much as US5,000 a pot, state media reported on Friday.
South Africa: Cape Orchid Show a Must (AllAfrica.com)
THE AUTUMN-flowering orchid season has begun and the Cape Orchid Show is holding its autumn show this weekend in Pinelands. Among the best known orchids for local gardeners are cymbidiums, which flower from May through to July.
China's gold-mine wild orchids face extinction (China Economic Net)
Where have all the flowers gone? Over-harvesting fuelled by surging market prices is threatening to wipe out several species of wild orchids in eastern China, some of which command as much as 5,000 a pot, state media reported on Friday.
Blooming orchids (The Pantagraph)
A whiff of vanilla is unmistakable, and it comes from an orchid. Orchids also smell of exotic spices, sweet florals, Mentholatum, new-mown hay and rotting carcasses.
Orchids for Mother's Day (BellaOnline)
Orchids are in fact one of the best buys you can make for any holiday, especially if you pick a Phalaenopsis.
Their beauty always leaves one speechless and one never tires of admiring these wonderful creations of God.
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| "The information contained in the article, ‘looking to find an orchid painting’, got me really hungry for more information." |
| "I was just checking out the article, ‘growing cymbidium orchid’. Where can I get more information regarding this?" |
| "The orchids most commonly cultivated by fanciers are tropicals from the phalaenopsis, cattleya, and dendrobium genra." |
| "Do you have a suitably sunny place for it to sit?" |
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