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Getting Too Much Light. Varying Temperature. Continue to 5 of 8 below. Featured Video. Fun Fact Many orchids will rebloom several times per year and can live for decades—the oldest plant on record thrived for more than years. In addition to these things, you should also be aware of any pests or diseases that might present themselves during this phase.
Many bugs can be removed by hand. After the flowers have fallen off, you can prune the plant because in most cases, orchids will not bloom again on the same stem. You can cut the stems just above the bottom two nodes if you have a standard Phalaenopsis orchid. If your orchids have pseudobulbs thickened stems at the base of each growth , cut them just above the pseudobulb. Finally, cut the stem off at the top of the potting soil for all other varieties of orchids.
These lovely plants, with their bold pouched flowers may only carry a single flower on each stem, but that flower may bloom for as long as four or five months. Dropping the temperature in autumn will encourage more flowers year after year. Another orchid that's especially easy to get to flower every year is Oncostele , sometimes known as Colmanara ; look out for Wildcat which can flower two or three times a year in a variety of mahogany, red and yellow shades.
Finally, look out for elegant and fragrant cockleshell orchid, Prosthechea cochleata syn. Encyclia cochleata , right. The flowering shoot keeps extending — unless you cut it off — and developing more flower buds so hold back with the scissors.
This is also a neat and compact plant, so takes up little space. Then sit back and enjoy the flowers Join the RHS today and get 12 months for the price of 9.
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When the sun goes down, the heat will drop and the cold will stimulate it to re-bloom. Tip: Re-pot, after an orchid stops blooming. Take it gently from its pot, shake off the old bark, and cut off any dead roots with a sterile razor blade or scissors. Add bark and gently mix the pieces around its roots to hold them snugly. Gerritsen recommends a potting medium of Douglas fir bark to aid drainage and air circulation. Orchids like bright, indirect light.
The Swiss-cheese pots attempt to replicate orchid-growing conditions in the wild, where the plants either grow visibly on the surface of trees epiphytes with roots attached to the bark of tree branches or on rocks, with their roots working their way into crevices. Orchids like the increased air circulation and the temperature change they get outdoors.
Bring them indoors for the cool months. If you have no shade, buy shade cloth to make a little canopy to protect your orchid from too much sunlight. For more of our favorite orchids, see:.
Finally, get more ideas on how to successfully plant, grow, and care for orchid with our Orchid: A Field Guide.
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