Here, today, is an example of such error:
This is a Phalaenopsis orchid. Or I guess I should say, This was an orchid.
I put it outside this summer, and it was doing great. It had even started to grow a new flower spike. Then I brought it inside, gave it some new moss, and put it in the exact same window it thrived in all last winter.
Two days later, the thing had turned yellow and acquired leopard spots. I don't know what in the world happened.
Oh, well. Guess I just need to stick to what I know—vegetables!
oh no!
ReplyDeleteDon't give up, Bree! I have had (and murdered) many orchids in my life. But the one I have now I got years ago, and it's still alive! Despite turning leapord-ish yellow and black at times, it always rejuvenates. This post is just one more reason you have to read the book I just finished "the faster I walk the smaller I am." Here is an excerpt: "The directions that came with the orchid said to prune the flowers after they wilt, then they'd revive in six months. First, though, the flowers had to die. So I watched and waited and finally I couldn't stand it any longer. Time to be done, I told myself, and then I pruned the plant down to its skinny, bare stalks. "What happened here?" Epsilon asked when he came home from work. "I did what I had to do," I said. "The flowers wouldn't wither. But don't worry. There will be flowers again in six months, just in time for fall. If I'd waited any longer, we would have risked not having flowers until winter." But fall came and went, and then winter, and then spring, the flowers didn't return, the orchid was dead, and for my next birthday I got a throw pillow."
ReplyDeleteThis happened to me once because of the same thing...taking it out of the pot and refreshing the soil. I think they are very sensitive plants. Since then, the ones that have worked best are the ones I fiddle with the least...including watering.
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