Video: How To Not Kill Your Grocery Store Orchid - Have It re-bloom year after year.

Mark Walters is the Orchid Colonel. Find him at Orchid Trail, 800 N. Tropical Trail, Merritt Island FL 32953. The website is https://www.orchidtrail.org/

The orchids from the grocery store are packed in a pot that will kill them. Here is the five-minute steps where you can learn how to make that grocery store orchid bloom year after year.

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This week: How not to kill your grocery store orchid or Why Phals Fail Did you buy an orchid at the grocery store? It is most likely a phalaenopsis and those orchids come in a ceramic pot that Mark calls the "orchid killer". Your orchid leaves will turn yellow and die from the water being trapped in the sphagnum moss. In this video, Mark will show you how to mount your grocery store orchid on a piece of cedar so it will re-bloom year after year.

Orchids are mounted on cedar or cypress because it is a hard wood that will not attract bugs. Where do you find cedar? You can always buy some nice cedar pieces on Etsy from Wood Slice Depot: https://www.etsy.com/listing/598465692/eastern-aromatic-red-cedar-wood-kindling?click_key=c7672076d939b515250a6a9ce745de6f3c6fbd7d%3A598465692&click_sum=2dec0720&ref=shop_home_active_1&frs=1

Also shown in this video: Phalaenopsis tetraspis, where no two blooms are the same. Phalaenopsis Sogo Grape, a bloom so red, it glows in the sun. Phalaenopsis equestris. Dick Wells from Hilltop Orchids in Indiana used to say: If you want big blooms, you need big roots. Leaves should be kind of yellow instead of dark green. When an orchid is deep green, it is not getting near enough light. Mark also shows the Brassavola grandiflora from the previous video with new roots growing.

Table of Contents (0:00) Grocery store Phalaenopsis (0:40) Ceramic pot is orchid killer (1:45) Phals bloom in spring in Florida (2:15) Remove plastic rods (3:13) Piece of cedar (3:50) Wire it on (4:24) Add osmocote time-release fertilizer (5:14) Phalaenopsis tetraspis (5:58) Phalaenopsis Sogo Grape (7:10) Small wooden basket Phalaenopsis equestris (7:21) Slightly yellow leaves are better than dark green (7:52) Brassavola grandiflora