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Find out how to prune orchids of all types, and when to do your pruning to encourage fresh growth and more blooming.
If you know what you are doing, you can get a moth orchid to bloom multiple times a year, he says. Here are Kondrat's top tips for helping your orchid thrive so it will keep on blooming for you. 1.
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.
Black rot on orchids is caused by Pythium and Phytophthora species. [1] Black rot targets a variety of orchids but Cattleya orchids are especially susceptible. [1] Pythium ultimum and Phytophthora cactorum are known to cause black rot in orchids. [1] Pythium ultimum is a pathogen that causes damping-off and root rot on plants. [2]
Tobacco mosaic virus—orchid strain Odontoglossum ringspot virus ( ORSV ) is a plant pathogenic virus that belongs to the family Virgaviridae . It is one of the most common viruses affecting cultivated orchids , perhaps second only to the Cymbidium mosaic virus . [ 1 ]
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.
However, I was able to keep my orchid alive for over two years using the ice cube method of watering. It entailed putting two large ice cubes, give or take, once a week into the pot. Similarly, I ...
Common names include ground-rooting epidendrum, fire-star orchid, crucifix orchid, [1] rainbow orchid, and reed-stem epidendrum. [ 2 ] The diagnostic characteristic of E. radicans is its tendency to sprout roots all along the length of the stem; other crucifix orchids only produce roots near the base. [ 3 ]