Orchids are a delicate and sought-after plant that can be easily maintained as houseplants under the right conditions. They thrive in warm, humid conditions, but indoors is generally warm enough for them, but air-conditioning and heating can dry out the air. To combat this, create a humid mini-climate for your orchid.
Orchid care involves choosing the right planting material, choosing the right type of orchid, and pruning your orchid when the time is right. Orchids require different levels of humidity, temperatures, and light, and most commonly grown genera are reasonably forgiving. However, orchid hybrids are rewarding house plants to grow if you understand their basic needs.
Orchids can live for up to 15 years under the right conditions, and they require special potting mix and specific watering. Use specialist orchid compost and don’t over-pot them, as too much compost will take a long time to dry out and can cause root rot. Even orchids labeled as “low light” will struggle if not in a window.
Experts say orchids are a good plant for gardening novices, as they look delicate but are actually quite easy to care for. Unlike some other plants, orchids are not difficult to grow and maintain, as long as they understand their unique light and watering needs. Prune your orchid the right way and ensure it is in a humid mini-climate to prevent air-drying and root rot.
📹 Dendrobium Nobile Care and Culture | How to Handle Winter Rest Period & Get Blooms – 2 Year Update
Hi all, in today’s video I’ll provide an update on my Den. Nobile. I’m also going to do an update to the care video that I did in 2020.
📹 Easy Orchids VS Difficult ones – Rating my Orchids by difficulty level! 🤔
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Just a side note, if you wanted to forego resting it for a year in order to get a better bloom display, it is possible to trick it. If you can give it consistently warm temps (day and night), not shorten the day length (keep it 11 hours or more) and continue to feed and water, it will happily grow through the winter and on through the following year. In doing so, you can triple or quadruple the number of available canes for blooming. Growers will often do this for show display/judging, where they can have a giant, leafed out plant in full bloom. The one caveat of doing this, as soon as the buds have formed you must start feed and water or the plant can literally bloom itself to death. This technique can be applied to some other winter resting types, such as amethystoglossum but don’t try this with an annually deciduous species like anosmum or aphyllum, it doesn’t work.
On a orchid forum someone noted a well known grower gets decent results with orchids that need a cool rest, but can’t be given one, with ice cubes. Along with the standard no fertilizer/reduced watering/reduced light period, every second night for two weeks they put an ice cube/s on top of the media. I haven’t tried it yet but plan to. Would be nice if it’s that easy. I plan to try it with my orchid and thanksgiving cactus too.
And you said that it is potted in coconut husk and sphagnum moss. Would you say that most dendrobiums, if you are wanting to transition them into moss, should be having something like that added into the moss so that it will dry quicker? I know that there are lots of variables. I live in Virginia and want to keep my dens, and catts in more full sun conditions. The moss on the ones with no cover and full sun dries out quickly, but since I don’t live in paradise, I only get to keep my plants outside for 3 – 4 months a year. When they come inside, that’s a whole new ballgame. So I’m curious as to what you think.
Hi Nicole, thank you for this article! I transferred all of my orchids into moss this year. I’m getting good at it. My question is this, I keep my orchids that can be in full sun under a covered deck because I’m afraid of what will happen. I’m scared if, for example, I went out for the day and there was a downpour, that something disastrous would happen. What do you do about plants in mostly or all moss that have no protection from rain?