Orchids can be grown using basic garden stakes or more specialized types of stakes. Bamboo skewers are a versatile tool for staking orchid spikes, and the only materials needed are a bamboo flower stake (paid link) and some flower clips or twist ties. Bamboo skewers can be used in four basic ways in orchid cultivation: stabilizing an orchid with poor root system, making it secure in the pot, testing the water necessity of the orchids inside the potting medium, and pushing a slender bamboo stake into the growing medium at the desired angle and secure the flower.
To grow and care for a bamboo orchid, follow these steps:
Insert the bamboo stake into the potting medium close to where the spike is growing. Be careful not to stab any of the spikes, as they may break if left unsupported.
Stick a bamboo stake to make sure the spikes stay upright but loosely tie them up, although most slippers have fully self-sustaining inflorescences.
Choose a suitable stake material, such as cane or bamboo, usually stained green. Bamboo stakes cannot be reused with orchids without the risk of transmitting potential disease.
Consider the type of stake you use, as bamboo stakes cannot be reused with orchids without the risk of transmitting potential diseases. The decision of which stake to use is up to you.
In summary, bamboo stakes are a versatile tool for growing orchids, and their care and maintenance are essential for their longevity and beauty.
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This is one way, and it won’t work for everything, but I like it!
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Great idea and it works. I’m sure many new roots don’t make it due to wobbly orchids and those new roots are so precious. A few drips? try getting around my plant room after all the mounts have just been watered (most hang from the roof) – I often have to change my shirt! Well, Friday the 13th came and went and we all survived (stuff and nonsense!)
Yay I’m not alone! I got a cattleya from a nursery a while ago here and saw they kabobbed the pot so the chid was pinned by the heavy wire n thought “hey that’s neat” I didn’t have wires but had bunch of skewers and tahdah! Great minds my dear. Lovely vid as always! What’d you end up doing to get more humidity? Happy growing!
Haha, at 4:44 that’s me clipping off edges, I’m always so afraid when they whoosh by me. Seems to be a very good method, thanks for sharing! The only thing that bothers me with this kind of stakes is that they tend to get brown/black after some time. But maybe that doesn’t happen when they’re just on the surface. 🙂
Hey Portland was great!!!!!! Loved it! I have a fav…. So I just went to the Redlands international orchid festival and picked up a few new chids that I’m not sure how to grow. I remembered you have one so I was wounds ring if you could do a care article for the Fred after dark avoid black pearl. I also got a millennial magic witchcraft. Which I believe is about the same. Oh and btw Bart motes says hey!
I think you maybe should test it and see what is happening after 2 months… I don’t want to ofend anybody here…. I have tried this before, just after my cat jumped and almost hurted herself with those tall bamboo stakes. So back then I’ve made this stabilizing stakes that you did, and some plants didn’t like it. Oncidiums suffered a microscopic lesion and got infected and rotted. A few cattleyas got rhyzome infection, same caused by the stake that damaged the rhyzome. Dendr phals were ok. But I prefer not to risk this again… I would go right now and spray it with hydrogen peroxide where those stakes meet the plant. Just in case…