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"David W.E. Roberts" writes:
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| we bought an orchid at Homebase last year, and it flowered for ages.
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| When it eventually stopped flowering we put it to one side, assuming it had
| to die back over the winter to be revived next spring.
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| Come spring, I start looking for instructions on how to encourage it to
| flower.
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| http://www.easyorchids.co.uk/phalaenopsis/index.html
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| Hopefully I may be just in time to save the poor little bugger, but it looks
| touch and go.
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| I had no idea you kept on feeding and watering them over winter and that
| they should always be green.
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| I guess they just look like daffs. etc - although the lack of a bulb should
| be a dead giveaway.

Good luck. They don't need watering very often, and I don't bother
to feed mine at all in the winter (as it isn't growing). But we
don't keep our house hot by modern standards.


Related to this, I left a Cymbidium we don't much like outside and
there was a mild frost (-3 to -4 Celcius). The fading flower spike
collapsed overnight, but the plant is fine. I suspect that a lot
of the claims of needing coddling are nonsense, though I can't say
WHICH are.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.