Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Grow Orchids Grow.

I never really had even one green finger. But, recently the mother and I decided that it's such a shame that all the Orchids we bought to celebrate Chinese New Year always die shortly after, and decided to expand a little effort in prolonging their lives.

We went to a nearby nursery where I bugged the gardener for about 20 minutes to get a free lesson in nurturing orchids, and went away with a bottle of orchid hormones formula. Add about one teaspoon of the green liquid to one litre of water and spray the Orchids, except around the flower area, the nursery gardener said. I was thinking... we'll be lucky if the plants survive... I'm so not even thinking about orchids flowering.
And guess what... after one Spray hormones at the orchids session, two out of the ten orchids sprouted flower buds.

Here's one picture:

I hope the flowers bloom... sometimes, the plants tease... the buds will show and then they'll just die without blooming. I'm so full of hope now. If the orchids are psychic they would be able to feel my excitement and eagerness and I'm also channeling threats. If they don't bloom, I will stop feeding them hormones and not upgrade them to spacious ceramic pots. I'm turning out to be THE PSYCHO GARDENer.

1 comment:

fong said...

Why not read up a little to learn more about orchids? This seems like a good Web site
http://www.orchids.org/culture/culture.html

Orchids sound a bit tricky -- roots need lots of air and can't get too wet. If family members cannot resist themselves from watering the orchids every day (and so keep killing the orchids), maybe you can re-pot the orchids with a very fast draining material?