That way you can feed the plant throughout the summer and hopefully! While spring and fall are the best times for transplanting orchids, you can also repot moth orchids in the summer, as long as you make sure the plant gets enough water during this peak growing season. The only time you do not want to repot a Phalaenopsis orchid is when the plant is in bloom. If you do so, all the blooms will drop off due to stress and transplant shock.
Gently grasp the plant with your hand and tip the pot on its side. In most cases, the orchid slips out nicely. In cases where the plant is extremely root bound, it requires more effort and may be quite the wrestling match.
If pieces of bark get stuck in the roots, wash them out with a sharp stream of water from a sink or hose. Used orchid potting soil is a great addition to the compost pile. Dead roots appear shriveled and dry; new roots are plump and smooth. Make your cut where the root grows out from the plant. Be sure not to add too much. Spread the remaining roots out into the container. Keep the plant at the center of the pot. Nestle more potting mix down in between the roots, and make sure there are no large pockets of air.
Tap the pot on the table a few times throughout the process to settle the mix snugly against the roots. Fill the pot to within a half inch of the upper rim, leaving a little headspace for watering. Let the pot sit in the water for about 45 minutes, then drain and put the plant back in its display location. By the way, though ice cubes are often recommended as a way to irrigate orchids, they are far too cold for these warm-climate plants and may cause root rot.
Phalaenopsis orchids are among the toughest orchids, but they do require regular care to thrive and rebloom. Transplanting is an essential step in maintaining the health of these lovely plants.
Do you have experience with Phalaenopsis orchid repotting? Tell us about your experience in the comment section below. Pin it! Yet would hate to wait until they are in distress or with rotted roots. Used to be able to pin, wonder what has changed??
You can pin any of our images by clicking on the Pinterest icon at the top or bottom of any of our articles. Another option, if you use Chrome, is to install the Pinterest browser extension. If you do that, when you hover over an image, the option to Pin it appears in the upper left corner of the photo. Do I cut it back please help. Wait until after the flower is finished. There is a link to a specific orchid potting mix in the article, but any brand of orchid-specific mix will be fine to use.
But as I was doing steps , I noticed it has a moss root ball, and the roots wrapped around it look pretty healthy.
Should I remove the moss ball or leave it and simply add new potting soil around it as described above? A couple of them have rebloomed 1 or 2 years later, but I am still keeping them in the pots they came in. Should I be repotting them? My orchid has root rot and is in full bloom it appears. Do you recommend treating it now or waiting? Also- any tips for dealing with root rot? I agree with the treatment plan you shared. My husband bought me a phalaenopsis orchid for this Valentines day.
It looks like the plant is in plastic inside its container and the container does not have drain holes. Am I suppose to replant it right away? One trick to help measure moisture is to take a sharpened wooden pencil and jam it down into the mix. Pull it out, and if the color of the wood exposed at the tip turns dark, you can be assured that there is moisture in the mix.
You can also use a plastic label. The weight of the pot becomes lighter as the mix dries out. If in doubt, don't water. Wait a day or two. If you happen to have an epiphytic plant that is being grown on a slab, you should be watering on a daily basis or have very high humidity in order for it to grow. Wrinkled or pleated leaves are caused by a lack of moisture reaching the vegetative part of the plant.
This can be caused by not watering enough, or watering too much. If they are white or tan, firm, and spread throughout the mix, you need to increase the frequency of watering.
If the roots appear brown and mushy, trim them off, repot into a new mix, and decrease the frequency of watering. Always remember, orchids should never stand in water! This is normal for most orchid flower spikes. It is simply a sugary secretion. You can mist it with lukewarm water to dissolve it off. This is referred to as bud blast, and can be caused by the following conditions: The plant has been too dry between watering, causing it to withdraw moisture from the buds.
There may be some wide swings in temperature, where it may be too hot in direct sun, or the plant may be too close to an air conditioning or heating vent. There may be some fumes in the air caused by paint, natural gas leaks, or other chemicals. Flowers naturally create their own methane and collapse after pollination to save energy for seed production. Certain forms of methane or ethylene may trigger bud or flower collapse. Cattleyas in particular are sensitive while in bud to overwatering, causing the buds to actually turn black in the sheath.
All plants need an adequate amount of light in order to flower correctly. Placing a plant in the center of a room, on a coffee table for example, is fine for display during an evening of entertaining, but to maintain proper growth and flower development it is best to keep the plant in its growing area near a window or under lights.
Phalaenopsis orchids never really go "dormant". When they aren't blooming, they put energy into making new leaves and roots.
Continue to provide good light, water, and fertilizer. Things to consider: Is it time to repot? We recommend repotting every years as the mix breaks down, usually in the spring or early fall. See our potting mix and orchid repotting video. Weather conditions? Long periods of cloudy days, cooler or hotter temperatures than normal can change when blooming will occur. Has the plant been moved to a different location? This is a very common question that really depends on what type of orchid you have.
In general, once orchids are finished blooming you can remove the spike with a scissors. If you do not remove the spike, the flower spike will dry up and turn brown over time. There are some orchids that can re-bloom off of the same flower spike more than once. Certain species of Oncidium such as the papilio can bloom off of a broken or cut back spike. The most commonly re-blooming flower spike is that of the Phalaenopsis moth orchid.
If your Phalaenopsis is of mature size such as 12" or more in leaf-span, cut it half way back just above one of the nodes the little notches on the flower spike. It should branch out in days with a new spike. Generally we recommend trying this only once per flower spike. Trying it a second or third time will result in less flowers. Cutting the flower spike completely off will give the plant more energy in order to produce a new flower spike with more flowers.
Almost all orchids drop leaves as they grow. Phalaenopsis orchids bottom leaves will turn yellow and fall off when it starts to produce new growth. Common white and purple Dendrobiums often drop all their leaves on each cane after they have finished blooming. With most orchids, old leaf growth naturally drops once new growth starts to emerge. The only time you should be concerned about leaves dropping is when the new growth or large and mature leaves turn yellow or fall off.
We have a few different Pest and Disease Control products to choose from. While orchids prefer a small pot—weaving their roots through the compost as they grow—they eventually run out of room.
That's when their roots push the plant up above the rim of the pot or reach out into the air, looking for breathing space—a sure sign that it's time to re-pot. Fresh bark mix is chunky and loose; decomposed mix fills in the air pockets that orchid roots need. Repotting an orchid sounds complicated and exotic, but it's a simple process requiring just a few items:. Remove the orchid from the pot.
Roots can be potbound and sticky; first try "massaging" the pot to loosen the rootball. Not budging? Work a dull knife down and around the inside of the pot, then invert it and tap the pot on your work surface to remove. Soak the roots. Examine the rootball and feel a few root ends. If the rootball is stiff and dry, soak it in water for a few minutes to soften the tissues.
Careful: dried-out roots can snap! Loosen and untangle roots gently.
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