Advice for someone who kills everything

Good_Queen_Bess · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:07 pm Post subject:

Let 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"

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(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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Jackiex

Guest1 · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject:

see if this helps at all.... http://www.orchidweb.org/aos/orchids/default.aspx or here.. http://www.imagine123.com/orchidtips/

Good_Queen_Bess · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject:

Thanks Mick.
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medot · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:36 pm Post subject:

GQB,,,,how is the orchid going...i'm just as hopeless with house plants.....i've actually got three artificial ones!!

Acorncup · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:54 pm Post subject:

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 · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:39 pm Post subject:

Good_Queen_Bess · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:22 am Post subject:

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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Paz,
Jackiex