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Orchid not flowering
Sue Partridge
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in Plants
A year ago my son bought me a pot plant which was an Orchid with pinky/purple flowers. Amazingly it has lasted a whole year, flowering the whole time-one flower at the end of a stem getting longer and longer.
Now the last flower has dropped off and I am left with 2 bare flower stems. The plant itself looks pretty healthy with dark green fleshy leaves. When I had a proper look at it today it was obviously too wet, sitting in a puddle of water in it's potholder. I have drained it off but is there anything I can do to make it flower again?
i thought of cutting off the 2 bare stems but don't know if that is a good idea.
Thanks for any advice.
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It will flower again eventually, but it will take at least 9 months. It may be a Moth orchid, Phalaenopsis, which is the commonest in shops and garden centres. If so, you could cut the flower stem just above the second node from the bottom, and it will reflower more quickly .
Do is Alan said, and cut it off a bit above the second 'bump/line' from the bottom on the flower stem. It sounds happy where it is at, so keep doing what you're doing. You can give it a weak orchid liquid feed to help it recover and to encourage the production of a new flower stem.. but I never feed mine, and they flower regularly. I have four, and sort of rotate them to a prominent position when they are in flower, and then move them back again when they aren't. I like to pick up healthy specimens from the grocery store that have finished flowering and are on offer (but healthy otherwise), as they are cheap and will soon be blooming again with a bit of TLC.
Thank you for excellent advice.