Good_Queen_Bess
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Advice for someone who kills everythingLet me start with saying that any plant I get, dies. I'm no gardener.
Well, I bought this Orchid a couple of weeks ago and have been meaning to post about how to look after it. You can tell how crap I am - I don't even have a proper pot holder for it to go in, and it's stood in a bowl at the moment!
How often do I water it? Do i trim off the dead flowers or let them fall off? It's really pretty.
Are there different types of orchid - which one is this one (please don't say "pink" )
(I had to re-size the pic, otherwise it was too big and you could see the dust on the windowsill!!! )
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Guest1
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see if this helps at all.... http://www.orchidweb.org/aos/orchids/default.aspx or here.. http://www.imagine123.com/orchidtips/
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Good_Queen_Bess
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Thanks Mick.
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medot
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GQB,,,,how is the orchid going...i'm just as hopeless with house plants.....i've actually got three artificial ones!!
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Acorncup
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I had an apsaragus fern for years, it seemed to grow OK on its shelf, alhtough the little tubers kept overflowing the pot
it was one of these....
In the end I decided to replace it and got a maidenhair fern....but it didn't like the hot weather (plus I forgot to water it) then when it resprouted it got blackfly....so now it's just a clump of stalks with some little shoots I'm hoping will grow
Good luck with your orchid
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Guest1
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| medot wrote: | | GQB,,,,how is the orchid going...i'm just as hopeless with house plants.....i've actually got three artificial ones!! | how do you kill a fake one??
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Good_Queen_Bess
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It's not dead yet!! I water it infrequently (or when I remember to). It has no pretty flowers on it though. Although they're some buds there.
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