Comments on: How To Keep Your Orchids Healthy and Thriving http://www.houseplantsforyou.com/how-to-keep-your-orchids-healthy-and-thriving/ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:02:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Pasha http://www.houseplantsforyou.com/how-to-keep-your-orchids-healthy-and-thriving/#comment-2799 Pasha Wed, 05 May 2010 14:18:58 +0000 http://www.houseplantsforyou.com/?p=162#comment-2799 I have had an orchid now for five years "know on wodd" and it is beautiful! I have made the watering easy by putting in a violet pot. It's a pot that is two. One sit inside the other and the bottom one hold the water. Some how the orchid gets just enough water. It has lived a long and happy life. I get so excited when it blooms because they are bright pink flowers and it just makes me smile. The light that it receives is very middle for the first approx. six hours and then very intense the last three. I also have repotted it once maybe twice since I have owned it. You also need to cut the blooming stem at a half way pint from the bottom and top top have it re bloom properly. Good luck and I hope this helps out all you orchid lovers! I have had an orchid now for five years “know on wodd” and it is beautiful! I have made the watering easy by putting in a violet pot. It’s a pot that is two. One sit inside the other and the bottom one hold the water. Some how the orchid gets just enough water. It has lived a long and happy life. I get so excited when it blooms because they are bright pink flowers and it just makes me smile. The light that it receives is very middle for the first approx. six hours and then very intense the last three. I also have repotted it once maybe twice since I have owned it. You also need to cut the blooming stem at a half way pint from the bottom and top top have it re bloom properly. Good luck and I hope this helps out all you orchid lovers!

]]> By: Vickey http://www.houseplantsforyou.com/how-to-keep-your-orchids-healthy-and-thriving/#comment-1256 Vickey Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:37:18 +0000 http://www.houseplantsforyou.com/?p=162#comment-1256 My daughter gave me a Orchid plant for Mother's Day. It says to put three ice cubes a week for watering. But all of the blooms fall off. So I repotted it. But the stem is looking a little brown. Have I killed it? Please help. Thank you. My daughter gave me a Orchid plant for Mother’s Day. It says to put three ice cubes a week for watering. But all of the blooms fall off. So I repotted it. But the stem is looking a little brown. Have I killed it? Please help. Thank you.

]]> By: Susan Cuthbert http://www.houseplantsforyou.com/how-to-keep-your-orchids-healthy-and-thriving/#comment-254 Susan Cuthbert Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:26:27 +0000 http://www.houseplantsforyou.com/?p=162#comment-254 I live in Bolivia and just purchased what looks like an orchid vine. The grower has an entire garden of orchids and takes clippings, puts them on wood blocks and lets the roots grab the wood and grow. He tells me I can just attach the block I bought to a tree or a wood pole or something and they will take off and grow. Taken by the possibilities for such beauty growing in my garden, I bought it. But now I'm wondering how the thing will hold water or get nutrients. Have you ever seen anything like this before? Any advice? I live in Bolivia and just purchased what looks like an orchid vine. The grower has an entire garden of orchids and takes clippings, puts them on wood blocks and lets the roots grab the wood and grow. He tells me I can just attach the block I bought to a tree or a wood pole or something and they will take off and grow.

Taken by the possibilities for such beauty growing in my garden, I bought it. But now I’m wondering how the thing will hold water or get nutrients. Have you ever seen anything like this before? Any advice?

]]> By: Rich http://www.houseplantsforyou.com/how-to-keep-your-orchids-healthy-and-thriving/#comment-18 Rich Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:27:34 +0000 http://www.houseplantsforyou.com/?p=162#comment-18 My wife likes to buy live orchids. Sometimes they do well for a few months but she can never seem to get one to stay nice and healthy. From what I gather it takes considerable know how and extra effort to grow orchids. My wife likes to buy live orchids. Sometimes they do well for a few months but she can never seem to get one to stay nice and healthy. From what I gather it takes considerable know how and extra effort to grow orchids.

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