Quoting Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net>:
My daughter bought my wife an orchid for mother's day about five
years ago. It bloomed for a couple of weeks, then faded. It didn't
seem to be doing anything for quite some time after that, so I
repotted it in a bigger pot with some orchid mix soil -- which is
more like wood chips than soil. It had hardly any root. Nursed it
along for a couple of years, and it started to grow and send out
roots, but it never bloomed. Grace knocked it off the table once
when she was playing, and it spilled out on the floor. I stuck it
back in the pot, and again it was dormant for a while but eventually
started growing new leaves again. Still no blooms. I fertilized it a
wee bit now and then as directed and watered it sparingly as
directed without success. Eventually, I threw a handful of Miracle
Gro potting soil on top of the wood chips and watered it in. That
seemed to spur the growth a bit. Last week it finally bloomed. It
was so long ago that it last bloomed, I had even forgotten what
color it was. It's a common variety I'm sure. In fact, it resembles
orchids I saw growing in the rain forest on the big island of Hawaii.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17628929&size=lg
Certainly worth the patience. Beautiful flower and well photographed.
I like the background with the subtle patches of light above the blooms.
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Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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