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Cut the spike two or three nodes below the lowest flower, and the orchid may bloom again in as soon as 8 to 12 weeks. “There’s a 50% chance a new stalk will grow from the old one,” Kondrat says.
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“You can trigger the plant to grow a new stalk from the node that will bloom,” Kondrat says. “Pruning like this makes an orchid rebloom in 8 to 12 weeks about 50 percent of the time.”
You know how it goes. You can't resist a $20 orchid at the store but then can't get it to flower again. It's orchid expert Chuck Acker to the rescue.
Coelogyne cristata is an epiphytic orchid that comes from cool, moist areas of the eastern Himalayas and Vietnam.It blooms every spring, before the snow begins to melt. Its genus name Coelogyne originates from two Greek words, koilos ("hollow") and gyne ("woman"), because of the orchid's concave stigma.
Broughtonia sanguinea prefers warm to hot temperatures; daytime highs of 29–35 °C (85–95 °F) and nighttime lows of 21–27 °C (70–80 °F) are acceptable winter temperatures. [3] Summer temperatures can be a few degrees warmer. 70% or higher humidity is ideal for growth.
In autumn, a single leaf emerges, which lasts throughout the winter. [11] Then in the late spring to early summer all the leaves fall off and the orchid blooms. When the orchid flowers, no more leaves grow for the duration of the bloom (June - September). The flowering stalk grows 10-65 cm tall, standing erect.
At the time, I was completely unaware that watering orchids with ice cubes was discouraged by garden experts and orchid labels. I was gifted the orchid—a pretty purple-and-white thing—and ...