What fertilizers do you use?

[Paul Mc]

I live in St. Louis, Missouri. It gets very cold here during the winter, but as soon as the night time temperatures average around 70 degrees I start pulling my orchids outside under a huge pin oak tree. During the spring and fall I generally don't have to water that much unless it's extremely windy. However, I keep a very watchful eye on them during the summer as it can get upwards of 110 heat index here.

I've bought bloom-buster for orchids by Miracle grow, used some regular time-release fertilizer (I believe it was 10-10-10) on a few of the terrestial ones such as Cymbidium and Phaius'. The rest I have never really bothered to fertilize. Rather new to the whole fertilization thing, but I saw a picture of an orchid that did not get fertilized and the next year it did. WOW is all I have to say about the blooms! I was on the floor with shock!