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And Then There Were None

When I got my vanda orchids a year and a half ago, I thought I knew what I was doing. I treated them just like my phalaenopsis orchid: I put them in orchid potting mix, sited them in filtered sunlight, and kept them moist at all times. Little by little they turned to mush and […]

Phalaenopsis Again

Well, it seems like I was just saying this only a year ago, but my phalaenopsis orchid is blooming again. It’s a little later than last year, but I think that might be because I repotted it. The reason I repotted it was so it wouldn’t lean. But now the flower spike is making it […]

And Then There Were Three

It’s been a while since I recorded a vanda orchid update. A little over a year ago, I received some vanda babies for Christmas. I mistakenly misted them daily and killed almost all of them with fungus. After realizing what was going on, I stopped the misting and have been a little more careful ever […]

Seventy Percent Fatality and Climbing

My vanda babies aren’t doing as well as I first thought they would. More than half of them have died, and several of the remaining plants have creeping brown areas. It’s hard to tell with plants if you’ve given them too much water, or not enough. My guess is that I’ve been watering them too […]

Like Clockwork

My phalaenopsis (moth orchid) is blooming. Now that I have a memory archive, I can see that it bloomed this time last year, too. This would be a good Valentine’s Day flower to have, if you cared about such things. You’d always have a nice spray of orchids for cutting by February 14. Or you […]

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