Water Makes Flowers Wilt?

[dianecty]

Yep, that's what I found out. Water does ruin the flowers and I love to water my orchids. Being laid off right now, I look at my orchids 3x/day and then we have had 100F weather the past few days and so I water them down to cool them.

There is no danger of over-watering the roots bec my roots are out in the open, they are all exposed. But of course, I ruined my flowers. Ugly!! What a waste!

I just ordered Fogg-It 1/2 gal/minute spray nozzle. It sprays a fog so that flowers/seedlings are not harmed. I just need to watch that I don't water too much so that water does not drip out of the pot too much to the lower level. The website has it on special right now with free shipping. $7.95 for the gadget and it fits into a regular hose.

My problem now is when I water the orchids with fertilizer. I don't know how to water them using my sprayer so they don't get ruined.

[ladyslipper]

Originally Posted by dianecty

That's a good idea Susie. Do you think a fog spray nozzle would fix the problem? Does it prevent the droplets from falling to the lower level? BArring moving all the flowering plants elsewhere of course.

The problem is I put my flowerless dends on the top shelf since they can stand more sunshine. My phals are on the 2nd level bec they get sunburned easily.

My apartment is too dark to put orchids indoors.

Hi dianecty, I also live in an apartment and I am really interested in others who grow without the benefit of a basement or greenhouse to grow. I guess for me both the best and worst time is carrying the plants 5 at a time over to the kitchen sink and watering. I find really "cool" things going on like a new bud or root. Thats the good part. The bad is mites or something worse (cross fingers here). I would love nothing better than to have even a small greenhouse where I can go nuts with a water wand and repot without cleaning up for an hour after a repotting session. I found out the hard way about the damage water does to the blooms. I finally got my Phal amabilis to "spike" and not realizing the damage I was doing with my morning misting routine. Lost at least have the flowers through early wilting due to the water hitting and sometimes staying on the flowers. The flowers looked really sweet with the droplets of water on the petals, but boy something that should have lasted at least a month, lasted days. What a hard lesson. Anyway, where do you go your plants? Mine is in my east livingroom under lights. My stand is not the prettiest thing in the world, very anti Fung shui. But I can spend easily an hour talking to some plants and threatening others for not blooming better.

Maybe I need to get a cat? Talking to plants? Oh oh! m

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[Phal-gal]

Diane, you can buy some inexpensive, but pretty trays at target. I put this on my grill/shelf, then the water won't drip below, and you can keep your plants where they are. I rotate them, so that none of them are always on the darker lower shelf.

[dianecty]

Phal-gal, that's great idea!

Lady Slipper, why are your orchids anti-feng shui? Orchids mean longevity in feng shui. That's why oriental businesses always have an orchid in their establishment.

I have my mini-greenhouse (bought at Walmart) in the western part of my apartment. The western part is my small backyard.