Oftentimes, after an orchid blooms, the plant appears to be dead or dying. There are usually three or four leaves in a plant, and by the time the last flower falls, one or all of the leaves are yellow!
They end up in the garbage. Lots of orchids end up this way- in the trash.
One of the ladies shared with me last week that this usual fate of her orchids. And I told her that I would show her what I had done with two of mine.
I purchase orchids from a regular nursery. After blooming (before the leaves have turned yellow), I removed all dead roots. This is usually the case... the orchids will have dead roots. It is because the orchid suppliers planned it that way! They bury all the roots of the orchid in this thick ball of sorghum moss, so tight that the roots can hardly breathe. The expectation is for the buyer to repot the orchid.
Like this one! Upon removing all the medium (mostly sorghum moss) and dead roots, I was left with little roots and barely enough to survive. All roots were broken, and it is just a matter of time. So I tied twine on three of the roots and set it on glass with little water.
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It will take about 80 days for new roots to form. I hope the three roots I tied the twine on will survive that long. Sometimes they don't.
Some people want to keep their orchids in the dark. I always want them in indirect sunlight. Different folks, different strokes.
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