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Old 23-12-2016, 04:31 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
John Rye[_2_] John Rye[_2_] is offline
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Default Dwarf phalaenopsis

Hello Jeff

In article ,
Jeff Layman wrote:
Anyone else have trouble with these?


Big Snip

I picked up one at one of our local "cheapie" stores for £1.35.

It flowered OK and then nearly died. My wife wanted to throw it out, but I
rescued the one green leaf, repotted it in a small pot, Put the pot in a
polythene bag, and gave it a little bottom heat in my windowsill propogator.
It took quite a time, but it recovered, was moved out of the propogator onto
the kitchen windowsill, and has flowered.

Since then it has grown some more and has a new flowering spike coming. It
seems to need to be kept very moist in a very well drained compost.

Cheers

John

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