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grange | 10:07 Sat 23rd Jun 2012 | Gardening
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My indoor orchid has been wonderful for the last few months but has now lost it's last flowers. What do I do with it now? Advice gratefully received. Thankyou.
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chop the stalk about 1cm above the first nobbly bit up from the soil
and give plant food diluted to half the recommended strength.
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Thank you both! Will go and perform stalkectomy then feed!
Whatever you do, don't water it very much - they don't like to be wet. If in doubt, don't water at all, and don't spray the leaves.

Enjoy!
I've never had any luck with orchids re-flowering until the last time. I did nothing at all, I didn't cut it I didn't feed it and it's flowering still after a full year!!
i asked the same question a couple of years ago, with 50/50 leave the stem and cut the stem. So as an experiment i kept the stem on 1 and cut the other... the one without a stem grew a nice new stalk with 6 flowers on... the other produced a small branch from the top of the stem with 2 on. i suggest cutting it back

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