This one is
special!
This is my first orchid, this is the orchid which started it all for me, and it came
sooo close to dying.
When I first got it in 2006 I actually found it easy to care for, I naturally picked up on the idea of letting the roots go silvery before watering again. Then I got it to bloom again... I was amazed! I thought you needed special conditions to get an orchid to re-bloom and I was sure it would just be a green plant once the first flowers finished.
All was going well, I bought a couple more thrilled with my success... then I re-potted in medium from the local garden centre which I now realised was decayed before I started. It almost killed it and I searched the Internet and found Orchid Board (of course that's when the addiction started
).
Now two years on and it's in flower again at last. Well, shall we say that it's finally healthy enough that I did not feel the need to remove the spike to conserve it's energy.
It's just so wonderful to have this one in bloom again and I want to say a
huge thanks to everyone here for your help,
I let the spike grow naturally and did not stake it this time as you can see in the second picture.
The orchid which started my addiction... finally in bloom again thanks to OB
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