On average, orchids need water every week during the growing season. Once the orchid stops blooming, you can cut back on water, since the plant is resting. If you have an orchid with a small pot, you may need to water twice a week when the plant is actively growing. Before watering, ...
The orchid family has over 880 different types (called genera) and over 22,000 species. These numbers are growing every year making orchids the largest and most diverse of the flowing plant families. In general Orchids are largely tropical plants which live as epiphytes or "air plants" hanging...
If some of your orchid’s roots are beginning to grow above the surface of the growing medium, your orchid has air roots. Some people refer to them as aerial roots, and the sight of these above-soil roots may make you worry that your orchid has outgrown its pot or that you've neglect...