Growing Orchids Indoors with Practical Orchid Plants Care!
Growing Orchids Indoors and set-up an indoor natural organic garden is an amazing de-stress program for everyone. Orchids are elegant, charming and unique. Orchid plants are everlasting perennial flowers plant. I have been growing potted orchid plants since the year 2003. The first pot was a birthday gift from my mum-in-law; she bought it from an orchid sales. There are many types of orchids in the market. I love all orchid types. So, I have been growing many different colours of Phalaenopsis orchids organically all these years. Most of the orchids need special types of soil which contains of bark-wood chips. You can easily get a bag of orchid soil mix from your local organic gardening supplier when you need to do repotting; one bag will last for a long time. Most of the orchids are sensitive; they dislike moving house; most of them love indirect sunlight and indoor lights. Phalaenopsis orchid is easy to manage. You will see them often in your local florist shops and garden centers. If you purchase orchids online or off-line from the garden nursery, you will see most of the plants are growing in a 10 cm tall transparent plastic pot with wooden sticks stake along the orchid veins.
After purchase, you may let the orchid pot stands for one to two days; so that; the plant will be familiar with her new home before you start your watering program. If the roots are too wet; you have to leave it for a few days more; give her a cool spot; at least 2.5 feet away from the window. When the summer is over, usually the indoor house plants will get your full attention; and the intensive indoor organic growing program would start right away. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Place a bowl of room temperature rain water under the plant pot and let the pot stands in for minimum 20 minutes. When the plant has a good soak; you will see all the roots are wet and green from the transparent plastic pot. Thereafter, remove the pot and rest on a table till all the excess water are drained off. During the the watering process, you may wipe their leaves (including the edges and the tips of the leaf) softly with a damp kitchen towel to remove the dust from all the leaves surface. In this way, the plant will be able to breath well. After watering and leaves wiping, you will see all the leaves are sparkling green. It means your plant is very happy. After blooming when all the flowers are dried and drop off naturally from the vein, place the pot back to her cool corner. Water the plant once a week during summer and once in two weeks during winter; examine the plant before watering to avoid excessive water serving. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I did not do re-potting even though the orchid roots were grown out from the pot. Because the plant was still growing well and the rest of the old shoots were still green. I prune nothing away, unless they are dry. You can place this pot in a slightly narrow bottom outer pot, so that the over grown roots will not be damaged by the bottom of the outer pot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you see one leaf is covered by another, turn the pot, to guide the upper leaf change its position. So that the lower leaf will get enough light. It takes time, but it works. You can also train the new shoots to the correct direction; to avoid the leaves being grown to only one side. Repotting orchids is necessary only when the orchids stop growing; or their roots are grown far out from the bottom of their pots. When is the best time for reportting should depend on the situations. --------------------------------------------------------------------- After October 2009, the purple orchids plant shown her eleven beautiful purple flower buds again and she had her full bloom in February 2010. We discovered that, if you change her standing place in the dark, On 15th April 2010, she started blooming again with her seven brand new orchid flower buds. On 22nd May 2010, the plant was still in her full bloom. Amazing right? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lately, the temperature went up very high, although it is in spring. The air humidity in our house has gone down to less than 50%. If it happens to yours; it is time to look closely to all your indoor plants; because they need more moist. Once the the air humidity drop down to less than 55%, you may water your orchids once in 2 days time. If the condition worsen, daily watering is necessary. Growing Orchids Indoors and start your challenging non-stop organic orchids blooming today!
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