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09-11-2003, 06:13 PM
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DESPERATE/ORCHIDPhalaeonopsis
Found the name,
Phalaeonopsis Chris Hogg" wrote in message ... On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 20:06:29 +0000 (UTC), "Gea Jones" wrote: Please Help, much apppreciated, I just splashed out and bought myself a real live potted orchid, it is so beautiful and I really want to give it all the TLC it deserves, any Orchid eperts out there ? I really need to know which part of the house to put it in, how much watering[the soil is really dry] light, temp, all the usual, Thankyou very much Gea My mother (83 yrs old) has pots and pots of such orchids, bought over the years at the local Wyvale g/c, which flourish with sickening vigor and are in flower for months. She has several species, I don't know what but nothing difficult or rare, I guess. She has them in an extension to her living room which has d-g windows on three sides but a plaster ceiling. The fourth side is open to the living room. Although the extension has two hot-water radiators in it, they are small and it doesn't get too hot or too cold out there. The windows face north, east and south, respectively. On the E and S windows are venetian blinds which she lowers to protect them from direct sunshine. The pots are on the sills of the N and E-facing windows, but not the S window. They're there all year round, i.e. she doesn't put them outside in the summer, and they don't seem to need any help in initiating flower shoots. She grows them in proper commercial orchid compost (mostly large bark chips by the look of it). She reckons that it's the watering regime that is critical to their health. She waters them once a week (it's her Sunday morning activity), by plunging each pot in a bowl of water for about ten minutes and then letting it drain. She puts a pinch of general purpose soluble fertiliser into the water (don't know what; probably Phostrogen or Miracle-grow). No other water is given for the rest of the week. When they're looking as if they're getting cramped, she re-pots into a larger pot using more of the same compost. -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
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