Droppy checkout12/31/2022 ![]() ![]() But even if you buy it from a greenhouse and transport it in your car, this can cause a temperature shock. The first is when you purchase your orchid online in winter and have it mailed to you. Temperature changes happen for two reasons. Temperature Change Causes Wilting Orchid Blossoms New roots are growing during this time as well, so you have an advantage. ![]() Once your orchid has lost all it’s flowers, then you can safely repot and change it’s medium. If you absolutely have to change pots, then keep the same medium. The additional stress of changing potting mediums is even worse. It has used its energy to produce a gorgeous flower and it doesn’t have enough to make it through a rough, new change. Environment change can also mean a change in potting medium. If you want to know more about bud blast, this articlehas some really interesting information and statistics. The orchid will react to this transport and handling phase by wilting. Keep this in mind when you take the orchid from the greenhouse, which has optimal humidity, lighting, watering, fertilization, and everything else you could imagine and suddenly placing the orchid in your home office (like I do.) Image Credit: Orchideria Some varieties and individual plants are more resistant, but most will not like the adaptation. They hate to be repotted, change climates, humidity, lighting, etc.Įven changing them from where you had them growing to another room can make a blooming orchid wilt. Environment Change Cause Flowers to WiltĪnother problem in buying orchids in bloom is that they are more susceptible to environment changes at this stage. They like to be in one place for life, attached to a tree. Moving is always hard (and I’ve moved more than my share… check out my memoir here) and especially so on an orchid. Like any new relationship, there are times of adjustment. It could be that you are purchasing a plant that is in its late cycle of blooming, and only has a few days remaining.ĭon’t worry about the flowers wilting if this is an orchid you’ve just bought. It’s a bit discouraging when I find my own research pasted elsewhere, as if it was someone else’s work.Ī graph like the one above is useful, but when you purchase a stunning, exotic orchid in bloom, you’ve no idea how long it’s been flowering. I found my own graph on several Facebook sites, copy and pasted, but no mention of me anywhere… These articles take a long time to make and I have to research them, so please give me some credit. Obs: If you copy this graph, please cite me as an author when you paste it somewhere else. In nature, these times can be prolonged.Ĭattleyas 1.6 – 3 weeks Cymbidiums 8-10 weeks Dendrobiums 4 weeks Miltonias 4-8 weeks Oncidiums 4 weeks Ondotoglossums 6 weeks Paphiopedilums 6-8 weeks Phalaenopsis 12 weeks Stanhopeas 3 – 4 days Vandas 6-8 weeks Note that the times listed are under the right conditions and indoors, and each huge category has many, many subdivisions. Cattleyas last about two weeks, if that.īelow is a simple chart of the most common orchids and how long each blossom stays open (listed in weeks). Dendrobiums and Oncidiums stay in bloom about a month. The most common orchid, Phalaenopsis orchids (moth orchids), can flower up to three months without wilting. ![]() Even though they have the fame of lasting forever, they eventually die. “2008 Orchid House 2” by anoldent is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 1. ![]() Orchid flowers will wilt because of 6 reasons:Īnd the end of a normal life cycle. The next morning, you wake up to wilted and drooping flowers. The extravagant flowers were full, luscious, and eye-catching. How do you now when wilted orchid flowers are normal or not?Įnthusiastic and excited, you purchased an orchid, moved it from the greenhouse into your home, and placed it by the windowsill-just like the instructions said. Wilting orchid flowers always make a new orchid grower a bit nervous. ![]()
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