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Changeing location
Soon, as the weather cools, i have to bring in one of my orchids, which
is on my patio, shady, but bright area and doing just fine with new growth at the base. My question is, would there be a problem? How should I expect to see it react? I will eventually put it in the same exposure, northeast, on a window sill in my kitchen. Oh yes, its a bloomless Dend. Continue to fertilize or stop for the fall and winter, here in the new york area. Thanks |
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Tony,
Many of us are faced with that same chore in a few weeks. About 3 weeks before bringing the plants indoors you should treat the plant and medium for any bugs that would come indoors as well. Spray 2 or 3 times a week apart. Depending upon where you house your plants during winter you may want to bring the plant closer to that environment slowly. Suppose the Dendrobium is sitting in a nice warm moist sunny area and you plan to bring it under lights in a dry air conditioned home it's not going to be happy if this happens at once. Abrupt changes in environment, specially when it is going from perfect to less than perfect is stressful on the plant. Whatever you can do to make that transition less stressful will reduce the chance that the plant will be damaged. So look at your windowsill where you plan to keep the plant and ask what will change to the plants environment. Ease it into that change and you should be fine. You might want to consider a southern window for a Dendrob for winter....just a suggestion. Good Growing, Gene "Tony" wrote in message ... Soon, as the weather cools, i have to bring in one of my orchids, which is on my patio, shady, but bright area and doing just fine with new growth at the base. My question is, would there be a problem? How should I expect to see it react? I will eventually put it in the same exposure, northeast, on a window sill in my kitchen. Oh yes, its a bloomless Dend. Continue to fertilize or stop for the fall and winter, here in the new york area. Thanks |
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I will defer a real answer to someone who knows dendrobiums better than I
do, but some dends actually like a bit of cool in the fall in order to bloom. Some like a reduction in nitrogen, and some don't care one way or the other. So alas you have to know what sort of dendrobium you have. Any Idea? K Barrett "Tony" wrote in message ... Soon, as the weather cools, i have to bring in one of my orchids, which is on my patio, shady, but bright area and doing just fine with new growth at the base. My question is, would there be a problem? How should I expect to see it react? I will eventually put it in the same exposure, northeast, on a window sill in my kitchen. Oh yes, its a bloomless Dend. Continue to fertilize or stop for the fall and winter, here in the new york area. Thanks |
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When the new growths have matured I switch to a high potash fert or so
called bloom booster.So I have now stopped the higher nitrogen feed .Or you could use a balanced feed all year round . Thanks Keith "K Barrett" wrote in message ... I will defer a real answer to someone who knows dendrobiums better than I do, but some dends actually like a bit of cool in the fall in order to bloom. Some like a reduction in nitrogen, and some don't care one way or the other. So alas you have to know what sort of dendrobium you have. Any Idea? K Barrett "Tony" wrote in message ... Soon, as the weather cools, i have to bring in one of my orchids, which is on my patio, shady, but bright area and doing just fine with new growth at the base. My question is, would there be a problem? How should I expect to see it react? I will eventually put it in the same exposure, northeast, on a window sill in my kitchen. Oh yes, its a bloomless Dend. Continue to fertilize or stop for the fall and winter, here in the new york area. Thanks |
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