Return to your regular watering and fertilizing schedule. There is no concrete rule on watering orchids, and it’s very easy to over-water the plants. The American Orchid Society recommends only watering when the soil has dried out. Water by placing your plant in the sink and running the water for about a minute. You should fertilize your orchid about every 2 weeks.
What do you do with orchid flowers when they stop flowering?
Orchid plants like tight fits inside pots, but when their roots start growing up and over pot rims, it is time to repot them. Wait until your orchid stops flowering and all the blooms have fallen to remove the plant from its old pot and pot it into a slightly larger container.
While I was writing we ran into the query “What to do if Yours orchid stopped blooming?”.
The only way out is a transplant. Some varieties of plants can bloom more than once, so epiphyte transplantation after the flowering process is completed is mandatory. After the Dendrobium has ceased to bloom, it should be transplanted into a pot of larger volume.
Another popular query is “What do you do when an orchid loses its flowers?”.
Once the flowers on an orchid have fallen off, the orchid will start to produce new blooms. To help the orchid produce more blooms, you can remove the top part of the old flower spike. Use sharp scissors to cut the stem just below a node; nodes are the bumps along the side of the spike.
How do you get an orchid to rebloom?
Cut off the spent flower spike and place your orchid in a spot with bright indirect sunlight to get it to grow back and rebloom. Feed the plant with a phosphorus fertilizer and water it once a week while maintaining indoor temperature at 65-75 °F to encourage orchids to produce flowers again.
Do orchids bloom again after they bloom?
Orchids bloom again after the flowers fall . Once an orchid finishes blooming, the old flowers fall off leaving bare spikes in their place. To make the plant bloom again faster, cut off the old flower spike so that the plant can put more energy into new leaves and roots.
What should I do if my orchid’s stem is brown?
Like the flower that has fallen, the stem might be ditched to conserve energy and focus it toward new growth instead. If your orchid’s bare stem has turned brown, you should remove that stem completely. Take a clean pair of gardening shears and make a precise cut at the bottom of the stem, where it reaches out at the plant’s base.