Cambria Orchid - General Condition

[Emma_TB]

Well it's been just over a week since the trim and repot. The flowers have died off (however it'd been in flower since I got it Christmas eve so it may have been coincidence?) so I have cut the spike down to about 6 cm, having been advised to do this after flowering to promote new growth. The leaves are still green looking, I'd have thought they'd be discoloured by now if it was on it's way out, so I have my fingers crossed. The PB still looks wrinkled and I can't see any signs of new growth (but that is to my highly untrained eye!) so I am just going to hope for the best really. Watch this space!

[Skirril]

Hello all, I am sorry to tag on the end of a thread like this, but I am new to this forum and have questions about an orchid I have just like the one in this post. I don't have pics yet, but can get some if necessary.

First off it was from Tesco, maybe a month ago, I have other orchids which are phals, but this is my first non-phal.The PB are slightly wrinkled, (it has 2 larger and 1 smaller one), it has 2 healthy flower spikes and is sending up another. The leaves seem mostly healthy, but with a tiny bit of browning on the end of a couple, and 2 or 3 have some pleats in them. Also, the soil it is in seems to have a lot of little insects, which from what I have just read seem to be fungus gnats?

I haven't taken it out of the pot yet to check it, but I will, I am kind of assuming it will need to be repotted, but I have questions about the repotting itself. I have coconut chips medium sized, but have read that it is a somewhat salty potting medium and that this type of orchid hates salty, is that correct? Or can coconut chips be used? Also, is medium sized too big? I have read they want small bark. I also have perlite and that moss that can be used, anything else I would have to order probably, or I can buy the orchid soil from garden centres, but it is a soil and not bark at all. I am reluctant to buy more stuff on like as I only just bought what I have to repot one of the phals, and the postage is as much as it would cost to buy the bark from where I bought it (9 quid), if that's the only way to save the plant though I can do it.