On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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 wa s. 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 Very nice flower and good back story. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
