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Find out how to prune orchids of all types, and when to do your pruning to encourage fresh growth and more blooming.
Kondrat says you typically need to water an orchid every 7 to 10 days, but he cautions that’s a general rule of thumb and your orchid might need a different watering schedule.
The key to growing orchids at home indoors is to learn about the plant and try to replicate its growing conditions from the wild. Proper watering is essential. It's easy to go wrong following what ...
White mold affects a wide range of hosts and causes sclerotinia stem rot. It is known to infect 408 plant species. As a nonspecific plant pathogen, [3] diverse host range and ability to infect plants at any stage of growth makes white mold a very serious disease. The fungus can survive on infected tissues, in the soil, and on living plants.
Caladenia rigida, commonly known as the stiff spider orchid, [2] or white spider-orchid [3] is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to South Australia.It is a ground orchid with a single hairy leaf and one or two white flowers with dark glandular tips on the sepals and fine reddish-brown lines along the sepals and petals.
Orchid seeds are very small (0.35mm to 1.50mm long), spindle-shaped, and have an opening at the pointed end. [5] Each seed has an embryo that is undifferentiated and lacks root and shoot meristems. [3] An orchid seed does not have enough nutritional support to grow on its own, and lacks endosperm. [2]
This orchid is an easy-to-grow houseplant and is great for beginners, with petals in a variety of colors with speckled and striped patterns. Care Guide Light : Well shaded, indirect light, east or ...
The flowers come in shades of yellow, red, white and pink. The petals are often ruffled on the edges, as is the lip. The lip is enormous, partially blocking the small petals and sepals. Some Oncidium orchids are very tall: Oncidium altissimum and Oncidium baueri can grow to a height of 5 m. They are known as 'spray orchids' among some florists.