Get Your Orchid to Rebloom

Bring on the new bloom! You can renew a fading orchid by pruning in just the right place. The perfect snip can bring you weeks of new blooms. Take a look at our inside scoop on making your plant put on new color.

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• gardening
• plants
• orchids
• pruning
• bhg

[ENORCA]

pffff - I've got a pair of these flowers and they do bloom 2-3 times a year - I do not cut anything off them and am not going to do it.

[Mansio1]

I'm not trying to sound rude or anything, but, wasn't this a video on how to get your orchid to rebloom after flowering? because in the video she said it would be painful by chopping blooms off when in flower to get it to rebloom... but why would you do that if your orchid is in flower?.......

[shawnio]

anyone else notice how she doesnt even do it to that bloom lol what a maroon

[informant007]

@Nina77G I'm glad to hear about your experience, as I'm starting to believe that it's best to retain as much of the original spike as the plant is willing to support. Like you said, a subsequent spike could happen higher up, which I think makes for a more dramatic looking plant. Of course, longer spikes mean nutrients have further to travel, but phalaenopsis orchids have shown that they can handle it. Btw, cinnamon has worked for me on cut spikes. Sealed up a little faster.

[skanemermaid]

Bogus info.

[iboredmyboring]

sorry 4 so many ?s, but i never know how moist my soil should be,&, or how much/often to water & am not sure if I can stick my finger down INTO the soil cause there's some kinda weird looking stuff on top of the dirt/potting soil that feels kinda spongy but if i can stick my finger down thru it should it always be moist? also the last time it flowered was in feb-march 2011, should it produce flowers again around that time?

[57kjohn]

right,,,wrrong to cut any blooms off.

[Nina77G]

@iboredmyboring Don't worry! Your orchid is going to be just fine :) Cuting off a flowering stem is a nonsence! After your orchind "shed off" flowers you should've either left the stems as they were to see if they are turning dry and yellow and if so, cut off that part. But even with your stem being completely cut off, the plant will bloom again. It'll just shoot a new when she is ready. Flowering of an Orching depends on conditions she is being kept in.

[Nina77G]

@informant007 I've never had any problems with infecdtions after cuting off a stem and I don't use any of the stuff you've mentioned. With cinnamon you've gotta be careful when misting. If the part that's treated get wet, it could start the rotting process.

As for stem cutting, I do it this way because I've noticed that it could happen that the next shoot shows up higher on the stem. I've advised my Mom the same, and her Orchind has been shooting from the same stem for two years now!

[iboredmyboring]

oops i typoed in my last comment that "di" i typed is supposed to be "do"

[iboredmyboring]

also in your video i couldnt tell/see where the "node" was @ as to where to cut, di you mean the little vine that the flower is attached to to cut that part off? if so is it to be cut off the main vine or do you cut the flower off the vine?

[iboredmyboring]

well since i didn't know this info. when my orchid fully bloomed & then the blooms died & fell off, does that mean my orchid will never bloom again??? I'm pretty sure it's still alive because the leaves at the base of the plant are stull green & look alive. I got it for valentines day 2011.