Beautiful-Blooms

 Cymbidium Blooms

Getting your orchids to flower is an art and an exciting experience.  Keeping your plant healthy and getting it to flower every season can be quite a challenge.  Mastering the art of orchid growing takes a little time and effort.  Following success tips and tricks help tremendously although, enthusiasm and passion are key ingredients..

Young Vanda plant and Vanda flowers from the parent plant

This young vanda is about a year and a half old and stands 17 inches tall, from base to top leaf.  It's growth is relatively straight and upright.  This was managed by rotating the plant periodically; otherwise, it would have had a slanted growth as plants always grow towards the light. 

Tuvok's Orchids  - Courtesy of Startrek Voyager

Orchids make a wonderful and spectacular addition to any living room, dining room; with their color, beauty and elegance and this is also true aboard starships  ;-)

Basic care and maintenance:

1. Growing media - Orchids grow best in a porous mix of bark, charcoal and coconut compost, to retain some moisture.
2. Do not drown your orchids or allow them to sit in water, they will get water logged and die.
3. Water your orchids once per week but the ones growing on trees should be sprayed daily.
4. Feed with a folier feed, like Miracle Gro, Garden Magic or phostrogen, every two weeks.
5. Apply a pesticide like Folimat once every 4 to 6 months to combat pests.

Beautiful Cymbidium Blooms

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