Thanks 👍Point taken…I probably assumed the lack of flowers to be a dormant period, there again if the plants aren’t healthy I suppose they’re unlikely to flower.
I’ll give them a check over and repot if required, hopefully with the moss removed now they’ll get more fresh air and daylight. I’ll also go easy on the spraying … 😊
I have 6 small flowered phalaenopses. 3 primrose yellow and 3 pure white. They are rarely out of flower. The yellow ones finished end of November and are days off reflowering. The white ones aren't quite so floriferous.
I follow the cut-the-old flower-stem-right-off school. It keeps them tidier. They live on a north facing windowsill, at a steady winter 15-16ºC (they had to be moved out of the strong morning sun last summer.). When flowering, they go, one ay a time into the bathroom. West facing. 15-18ºC.
I water with room temp rain water once per week, summer and winter, allow to flood through and empty the saucer within an hour. I repot them into a bigger pot (transparent) when they get too big for the old. Not an urgent job. I use orchid fertiliser about once every 2 waters.
I am less successful with cymbidiums. I had a repeat flower only once and that was swamped by the leaves. I have a "lady's slipper" that I seem to get to reflower every other year for 2 months. It did well so I divided it; now I have only one.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I don't want to hijack Betty's thread, but don't really thing it worth starting another.
I have tried in the past to train my moth orchid flowering stems upright. The nurseries do so obviously because it takes up less space and stops the plants getting tangled up. May be I'm clumsy, but when I have done this, bits have broken off.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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I follow the cut-the-old flower-stem-right-off school. It keeps them tidier. They live on a north facing windowsill, at a steady winter 15-16ºC (they had to be moved out of the strong morning sun last summer.). When flowering, they go, one ay a time into the bathroom. West facing. 15-18ºC.
I water with room temp rain water once per week, summer and winter, allow to flood through and empty the saucer within an hour. I repot them into a bigger pot (transparent) when they get too big for the old. Not an urgent job. I use orchid fertiliser about once every 2 waters.
I am less successful with cymbidiums. I had a repeat flower only once and that was swamped by the leaves. I have a "lady's slipper" that I seem to get to reflower every other year for 2 months. It did well so I divided it; now I have only one.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Photo of one of the ill plants when it flowered last, prob over 12 months ago…hoping to see more flowers in the future!
I have tried in the past to train my moth orchid flowering stems upright. The nurseries do so obviously because it takes up less space and stops the plants getting tangled up. May be I'm clumsy, but when I have done this, bits have broken off.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
So .... I leave the flowereing stalks to go their own way. But they do get tangled up and interfere with window opening and the like.
Any experience to pass on.?
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."