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Please help me save my poor orchid plant
Pink678
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I have this orchid, which I inherited. I would like to keep it going and make it healthy again.
I water it regularly with spring water, every couple weeks I think, based on the weight of the pot or how long it's been.
It produced white flowers originally, and then maybe one more the next year.
In recent years though, there have been no flowers, but it continued to have nice green leaves.
In the past month or so, it's looking yellowed and not so good.
Over the past months I starting giving it baby bio orchid food - 1 drop to 50ml of water, at each time I watered. The Baby Bio food is many years old though. The bottle says "5-10 drops per 1/2 litre of water, every time you water. Use when plants are actively growing, usually spring and summer."
It is kept in the corner of a south facing room, with no direct light at all. Maybe it needs more light, I don't know.
I would really appreciate any advice on how I can save this plant and how to look after it, and eventually get some flowers.
I water it regularly with spring water, every couple weeks I think, based on the weight of the pot or how long it's been.
It produced white flowers originally, and then maybe one more the next year.
In recent years though, there have been no flowers, but it continued to have nice green leaves.
In the past month or so, it's looking yellowed and not so good.
Over the past months I starting giving it baby bio orchid food - 1 drop to 50ml of water, at each time I watered. The Baby Bio food is many years old though. The bottle says "5-10 drops per 1/2 litre of water, every time you water. Use when plants are actively growing, usually spring and summer."
It is kept in the corner of a south facing room, with no direct light at all. Maybe it needs more light, I don't know.
I would really appreciate any advice on how I can save this plant and how to look after it, and eventually get some flowers.
I would like to repot it and take it out of that glass jar, if that's a good idea, but I don't know the best way to repot. It has never been repotted.
I attached some photos - the big glass jar has a diameter of 10.5cm.
Many thanks.0
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BTW, orchids need less, and much more dilute, plant food than most plants.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Just to add: The roots or rhizomes need light so they need to be in a glass or clear plastic pot. You have surrounded the inner pot with bark. Some of the rhizomes will grow out of the pot - that's okay. Green rhizomes = healthy Grey dry rhizomes = not healthy!!