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A Birthday gift

By 95slvrZ28
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-  Mon Apr 26, 2010 1:10 am #52429
Well, my mom got me a plant for my birthday! It was grown at a local orchid nursery. I'm pretty excited to start growing it, the flowers are just so beautiful. It also came with live sphag as the bottom covering, so I'm hoping to get some of that going as well. Can I just pull some of the live sphag and put it into it's own container?

Anyway, here's my plant:

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Re: A Birthday gift

By Dooter
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-  Mon Apr 26, 2010 2:29 am #52451
Oooo, pretties!!!

Happy Birthday!

Re: A Birthday gift

By kittyklaws
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-  Mon Apr 26, 2010 2:32 am #52453
What a lovely orchid! :D Congrats and happy B-day! :D

Re: A Birthday gift

By 95slvrZ28
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-  Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:19 am #52486
Thanks everyone! I'm pretty new to the orchid scene, so I guess we'll see how it does. haha.

Re: A Birthday gift

By 95slvrZ28
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-  Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:11 am #52632
Should the orchid be watered with distilled water like CPs or is it ok to give them tap water?
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Re: A Birthday gift

By Steve_D
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-  Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:29 pm #52665
Orchids are more tolerant of tap water than carnivorous plants, as Matt mentioned. The do however enjoy collected rain water, they like light fertilizing (1/3 to 1/2 usual strength) from time to time, and they benefit from flushing the accumulated soluble material from the growing mix from time to time.

Great looking phalaenopsis! :)

Re: A Birthday gift

By 95slvrZ28
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-  Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:01 am #52743
Great, thanks for the tips. Salt water it is ;)

I'll probably water with tap water most of the time and then flush it every so often with distilled. That won't be a big deal. Thanks guys. I hope it continues to bloom. It came from a nice humid green house to my nice dry room, so I'm thinking that might shock it a little bit. Guess we'll just have to wait and see. :)

Re: A Birthday gift

By AmyJane
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-  Mon May 03, 2010 5:39 pm #53413
Beautiful orchid! Similar to mine and tap water is fine, at least its what I use to water mine :D

Re: A Birthday gift

By victor
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-  Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:02 pm #82515
When I got my orchid the care tag said you should get ice cubes of distilled water and put 1 on the soil every 2 days.
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