Comments on: Isolde the self propogating Dendrobium orchid http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/isolde-the-self-propogating-dendrobium-orchid-503 Stumbling self sufficiency in a small space Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:52:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stubby Holders http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/isolde-the-self-propogating-dendrobium-orchid-503/comment-page-1#comment-72796 Stubby Holders Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:44:39 +0000 http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=503#comment-72796 My mom loves gardening and it beautifies our surroundings. Orchids is her best to plant. Thanks for sharing. Let's save the earth through planting. My mom loves gardening and it beautifies our surroundings. Orchids is her best to plant. Thanks for sharing. Let’s save the earth through planting.

]]> By: fn http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/isolde-the-self-propogating-dendrobium-orchid-503/comment-page-1#comment-57016 fn Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:56:15 +0000 http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=503#comment-57016 Hi Chris The orchids are evergreen. Yes mine has been flowering for about four years now. About a year ago one of the babies throw out a flowering shoot so I potted it in orchid compost as a present for my mum. Since then only one baby has thrown out a flowering shoot. Perhaps if I'd potted them on earlier they would have all flowered by now! The secret to extending the flowering period is to buy orchid fertiliser. I fill the cache pot od each orchid and submerge the pots in water and fertiliser for five minutes. I also spray the leaves (not) the flowers. Then I let them drain all day in the empty bathtub. They are in the diffused light of the bathroom window and clearly enjoy a steam bath when we shower. Hi Pamela I don't move mine apart from when I water them. Hi Chris

The orchids are evergreen. Yes mine has been flowering for about four years now. About a year ago one of the babies throw out a flowering shoot so I potted it in orchid compost as a present for my mum. Since then only one baby has thrown out a flowering shoot. Perhaps if I’d potted them on earlier they would have all flowered by now!

The secret to extending the flowering period is to buy orchid fertiliser. I fill the cache pot od each orchid and submerge the pots in water and fertiliser for five minutes. I also spray the leaves (not) the flowers. Then I let them drain all day in the empty bathtub. They are in the diffused light of the bathroom window and clearly enjoy a steam bath when we shower.

Hi Pamela

I don’t move mine apart from when I water them.

]]> By: Pamela http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/isolde-the-self-propogating-dendrobium-orchid-503/comment-page-1#comment-56988 Pamela Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:41:29 +0000 http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=503#comment-56988 Apparently orchids do not like to be moved at all, so my mother has discovered. She has a growing collection of orchids and was also given a book about caring for them for Christmas. Apparently orchids do not like to be moved at all, so my mother has discovered. She has a growing collection of orchids and was also given a book about caring for them for Christmas.

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