Tips On Growing And Caring For Orchids
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Article by: Lee Dobbins Orchids are fascinating flowers , Understanding Integrated Pest Management that are fun to nurture but do need some special care. These slow growing plants , Give Your s the Finger are best grown indoors , Teak Garden Furniture and will need to be repotted every other year. In addition to repotting, you will need to provide the plant , Gardening Soil with enough light, , Starting Seedlings Indoors water , Home for a Gnome? and fertilization as well as prune , Patio Umbrella Covers it properly to keep it in the best of health. Repotting Orchids should be repotted in a pot , How To Ensure Early Bulbs Bloom, Year After Year that is larger then the current, but not too much larger - go just one size up. Don't make the mistake of thinking you can repot into a really huge pot , Discount Garden Benches and then not have to worry about it for the next 5 years! Fill the pot , Rose Success about 2/3rds of the way with soil , Give Your Plants the Finger that is formulated for orchids , Fiberglass Pond Liners and set the plant , Some Of The Most Common Landscape Design Features with the growing tip , Should You Hire a Landscape Designer? in the center and it's roots , Multi Purpose Tree - Sugar Palm spread out in the soil. , Understanding Integrated Pest Management Fill the pot , US Flag History with the rest of the soil , Multi Purpose Tree – Sugar Palm and pack it gently around the plant. , Give Your s the Finger Water , Specialty Trees - A Beginner's Guide thoroughly. Soil Tropical orchids , Popular Adirondack Chairs - Everything You Need To Know thrive in organic , Patio Enclosures material. 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In the winter , Multi Purpose Tree – Sugar Palm you must be sure that your plant , Xeriscaping is Waterwise Gardening is getting enough sunlight and you may want to use fluorescent lighting to supplement the natural , Popular Adirondack Chairs - Everything You Need To Know sunlight. Fluorescent lights , Want a Garden, But Don't have Enough Dirt Or Space? Hydroponics Gardening Is The Answer! work quite well for growing orchids , Compost Tumblers - Gardeners Love Them and you can use them in even the darkest corner and have wonderful plants. , Myths About Lawns Water All plants , Sheds - is this a Man's Castle? need water , Traditional Wisdom or Old-fashioned Nonsense? but many people do not know how to , Ensure Early Bulbs Bloom, Year After Year provide it properly. Some water , Backyard Landscaping Ideas too much leaving standing water , Give Your Plants the Finger in the pot , Home for a Gnome? all day and contributing to root , Chain Link Fences rot. Others don't water , Backyard Landscaping Ideas the plant , Your Garden - Growing from Seed for weeks and wonder why it can not survive. The first consideration is to make sure you use a pot , A Couple of Good Places to Buy Lawnmowers with good drainage - either one of those with a hole in the bottom and a saucer or at least put pebbles under the soil. , Understanding Integrated Pest Management Water , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 2) Plant Needs the plant , A Couple of Good Places to Buy Lawnmowers thoroughly but not so much that a pool of water , Traditional Wisdom or Old-fashioned Nonsense? is sitting on the soil , Fiberglass Pond Liners - water , Give Your Plants the Finger once a week or when you feel the soil , How To Ensure Early Bulbs Bloom, Year After Year has dried out. If your orchid , Should You Hire a Landscape Designer? is planted in bark, then it will probably need to be watered every 5 days or so. You can also moisten your orchid , Do Garden Statues Have a Place in a Modern Garden? with a spray bottle to give it a more humid environment. , Traditional Wisdom or Old-fashioned Nonsense? Some people like to gently wrap the plant , Teak Garden Furniture in a floral paper or wax paper cone and spray inside. , WaterWise Gardening - The Basics Required to Create a WaterWise Garden The cone helps to keep the moistness in. If you do spray your plant, , Patio Table Covers use distilled water , Outdoor Furniture Cushion Replacement- Redesign Your Outdoor Space as tap and spring , A Couple of Good Places to Buy Lawnmowers water can leave deposits on the leaves. Temperature Although orchids , Outdoor Furniture Cushion Replacement- Redesign Your Outdoor Space are tropical plants, , Chain Link Fences they prefer cool temperatures , Patio Umbrella Covers at night. Most orchids , Planting Your Garden will do best in temps that would be to cold , Multi Purpose Tree – Sugar Palm for you in your house. , A Couple of Good Places to Buy Lawnmowers When grown in professional greenhouses, , Solar Lights for Walkways - Cut Costs they are kept between 55 and 65 degrees at night. The cool temperatures , US Flag History help to keep the soil , Patio Table Covers more moist. Fertilizer Orchids growing , Preparing The Garden For Winter in bark or peat and bark mixes do best with a liquid fertilizer that has a 20-20-20 analysis or, better yet, a specialized orchid , Chain Link Fences fertilizer (30-10-10). Try using a water , Don't Roll that Lawn soluble urea free fertilizer for best results. When fertilizing, simply add it in your regular watering schedule following the instructions on the fertilizer package. Pruning Pruning is important for orchids , Home for a Gnome? to remove dead parts and shape your plant. , Don't Roll that Lawn You can prune , Rose Success your orchids , A Beautiful Rose Is Nature's Gift periodically throughout the year, or reserve the pruning , Myths About Lawns for once a year typically in the fall , Popular Adirondack Chairs - Everything You Need To Know or early winter. , Understanding Integrated Pest Management When the blooms have died and the stalk is dried up and yellow or brown, use sharp shears to cut it back to an inch from where it comes out of the soil. , Balcony, Patio, and Courtyard Gardening A new bloom will appear during the next blooming season. , Rose Success In some cases, you may want to just remove the end of the bloom stalk which may cause it to bloom again. If you do this, you may find a new shoot or baby plant , Give Your s the Finger to spring , Xeriscaping is Waterwise Gardening up. If this does happen, you can remove the baby and plant , A Beautiful Rose Is Nature's Gift it in a separate pot , Give Your Plants the Finger for an additional orchid plant , Chain Link Fences to enjoy!
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