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Top 10 Orchid Care Techniques to Help an Orchid Plant in Need

1. Get a humidity tray
   
2. Don’t over water your Orchid
3. Give the right amount of light
4. Make sure you have the right temperature range
5. Mist your Orchids if it is hot and dry
6. Don’t let fungus or bacteria grow on the Orchid leaves - take care of this right away
7. Increase air ventilation for your Orchids
8. Repot your Orchid
9. Give your Orchid time, and don’t over care for your Orchid once you have improved growing conditions
10. Make sure not to fertilize your Orchid too much or too little

Make sure to choose the right Orchid variety for your care conditions.

We’ve just posted 10 new Orchid FAQ - Frequently Asked Orchid Care Questions we’ve been collecting, to the Orchid Tips Website. If you have Orchid questions yourself, please feel free to ask them on our Orchid care discussion boards, and when we have enough good new questions saved up from new posts started, we’ll post a Page 2 of Frequently Asked Orchid Care Questions.

Enjoy!

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Ten most popular Orchids for California weather

1. Cymbidium
2. Dendrobium nobile
3. Dendrobium kingianum
4. Some SLCs
5. Encyclia
6. Laelia
7. Some Paphiopedilums
8. Zygopetalums
9. Dendrobium speciosum
10. Laelia speciosa

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Ten Signs of an Unhealthy Orchid

1. A little plant on top of flower stem (keiki)
2. Brown edges on leaves
3. No roots
4. Roots shriveled and not white/thick/grey
5. Orchid is shrinking over time
6. Orchid hasn’t bloomed in over a year
7. Orchid has huge plant, few flowers or flower spikes
8. Plant leaves are very dark green
9. Plant leaves are very yellow and sunburned, calloused in middles
10. Pot has become too big for Orchid

You can find more about ideal Orchid care on our Website here in the meantime, and we will be posting to this blog most evenings about different Orchid topics for more detailed info.

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