Cinnamon?

[Blondie]

I've been digging around and I see a lot of references to cinnamon. Do you mean cinnamon that you can buy at the grocery store? Like the powder? Or a stick?

[Lagoon]

Yup you can buy it in the stores, nothing fancy, but it works just great. I get the powdered up one.
Don't buy the one with added sugar

[cb977]

Regular cinnamon powder does the trick
It's been used for thousands of years for medicinal purposes. When your 'chid has a cut or damage, the cinnamon will seal it so that no infections can get into the plant.

[Marco]

and its great on toast

[Gin]

Good for droopy baby chicks when sprinkled on thier food. .

[Neverend]

I use it, and it's effective for me. Sadly I can't find powdered forms easily so I had to grind them from sticks....

[Vanessa]

A friend (another snowbird) gave me a Phal that had horrible crown rot to the point it smelled and had insects crawling around in the center. I isolated it away from my other chids...cleaned up the rot and dumped cinnamon on the center...it healed and it is now one of my best bloomers.

[Becca]

I recently read that they key is to lightly sprinkle it on the cuts, if to much is used it could actually inhibit root growth. I also read not to apply it to uncut healthy roots as it could cause the same problem. Is this true? When ever I preform surgery on my orchids root systems, I alway give a good sprinkle on all roots since it is hard to just isolate where it goes. I hope it won't cause any problems!

[Neverend]

Inhibit root growth? When I used mine excessively the roots still continued growing...

[Nico]

I use cinnamon, too. It's easy to find and natural. I don't know how strong the antibacterial effect is...