Caring For Orchids

[hardy49]

Last year we had two orchids given to us as gifts. They were just ordinary orchids,probably purchased from a supermarket. After three or four months we were very surprised that they were still flourishing ! Since then they seem to be going from strength to strength. Now we are concerned that they may need repotting but the roots have grown outside the pots and to disturb them could harm the plants. Any suggestions?

[murraymints]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=orchid+care&;oq=orchid+&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i67k1l4.1095.9477.0.12709.17.17.0.0.0.0.238.2042.9j7j1.17.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.17.2033...0.AESt4dzQaXE

look here

[murraymints]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=How+do+you+repot+an+orchid+plant%3F&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigjsSdo6TWAhVBAsAKHTmnB5IQzmcISw&biw=1094&bih=486#kpvalbx=1

[mikey4444]

Anyone who can persuade these things to bloom again has my admiration !

Personally, I go to Lidl and buy new ones every 2-3 months !

[murraymints]

I manage to keep them a year or two 'till they get too top heavy and fall over and snap usually ! sob

[ummmm]

All the orchids I've had have lasted for years and I'm rubbish with plants.

[Prudie]

I have 4 now all from supermarkets and at least 4 years old. They all just bloom and bloom and I've never repotted any of them. All I do is water once a week with rainwater if I can. They all have lots of air roots that grow above and out of the pot. That is normal.

[murraymints]

they seem to do best on a bathroom sill... like the humidity of the shower

[hardy49]

Thank you all

[Tuvok]

I have 3 at work.

One of them grew a second batch of flowers.

It has then gone on to grow 2 babys!

There's possible signs of a baby on one of the others.

I have another at home - it was put out to the greenhouse and forgotten about. Then it grew flowers even and now its growing another flower stem.

The ones at work get a weekly drink and a spray of an orchid feed (from Poundland)

[jennyjoan]

Err - do these orchids grow inside your house. Would like to give them a go and place on my landing window. I too am rubbish with plants. Thanks - oh where can I buy some.

[mikey4444]

Jenny...pretty much anywhere. Tesco has some small ones for about a fiver...larger ones for a tenner. Look in Lidl !

[Peter Pedant]

these all sound like Phalaenopsis
(it'll be written on the side)

yes orchids are fastidious and the most evolved plants

the rooty bit is called the rhizome and orchids have to have an obligatory fungus sort of near
combined this is called a phyco-rhizome.
clearly just pulling it out of one pot and splotching it into another with mulch etc may upset this fine balance

[Peter Pedant]

There are 40 British orchids boys and girls -
all with spotted leaves ( xc the twayblade)