Hello!

Congratulation on your first orchid! Phalaenopsis are very easy to grow!

It`s always better to wait after they finish blooming to repot them! Doing
it now will cause a shock and the plant could lose all the buds, altough I
have done that in the past without any problem but I guess I got lucky!


Claude


"Casey Wilson" N2310D @ gmail.com wrote in message
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| Hello all,
|
| I'm a dedicated lurker. Some weeks ago, several of you were kind
| enough to answer a question about greenhouses. Now, I'm back with another
| question. I'm not an orchid grower. Well, not until last weekend, anyway.
| Over the holidays I dropped in at Sander's Nursery in Camarillo,
| California, just to look around. That was Friday, New Year's Eve. Sunday,
I
| dropped back in and bought my first orchid. It is a phalaenopsis with the
| patent name Newberry Parfait "Picotee."
| The plant looks very healthy. It has a flower spike with one open
| flower, and several more coming.
| My question is, should I repot it now or wait until it finishes
| blooming? I put the pot (typical plastic thingy they are sold in, this one
| is four inches) in a catch tray and poured a cup over water over the
medium.
| The water ran through almost immediately.
| What I've read so far is that phalaenopsis is sensitive to
overwatering,
| so I want to be careful about that. Experience with other flowers and
plants
| is that repotting can be traumatic, and I don't want to stress the plant.
| Your suggestions are invited.
|
| Regards,
|
| Casey Wilson
| Freelance Writer and Photographer
|
|