It is a false belief that the Phal will die if you repot during its blooming cycle.
Truth: Repotting an orchid during its blooming cycle will only affect the possibility of whether the plant will hold onto the flowers or not.
If you repotted a Phal during its blooming cycle, it may drop flowers due to stress, but the likelihood of that happening is rather low in Phals. Particularly if you've not done any significant root damage while you repotted the Phal.
If you repotted the Phal and you did a significant amount of damage to the roots while doing so, then it will affect the blooms and it will most likely drop them prematurely.
Notice I did not mention anything about "killing a Phal" while repotting during the plant's blooming cycle, because it simply is not true if you haven't done a large amount of damage to the roots to prompt the Phal to start declining in health while repotting.
In fact, you did the right thing! You did what most people starting off in the hobby with Phals do not do. You have in reality ensured the Phal's survival by repotting into an appropriate or fresh potting medium, and checking the roots for any kind of damage from the get go.
*** Btw, when the orchid's flowers are spent, the plant can continue to live on for many, many years, and continue to bloom seasonally, (or in some cases, randomly throughout the course of the year, multiple times). ***
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Originally Posted by hvlckvtnr
Wow, I've just hit the very same problem (posted about 1h ago)... it's Phal killing time. :-)
Hmm, now that you mention it, I do recall faintly advice not to repot during bloom... but at the same time I recall even stronger the advice to repot when you bring an orchid from the store, and those are almost always in bloom. So... conflicting advice, it seems.
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There is only conflicting advice, because you're only
getting part of the picture...
If you get the
whole picture in context of the situation,
there is no conflicting advice.
The problem with Phals purchased from home improvement centers, big franchise furniture stores, or supermarkets, is that they are more often than not, (not always), packaged in ways that are detrimental to their overall health.
For example:
- Tightly packed moss.
- Put in pots or various other containers without any kind of drainage.
- Wrapped in those plastic gift wraps, again, without affording drainage of the water to occur when they are watered.
Then there's the treatment they received prior to getting to your house!
- Over watered.
- Under watered.
- Potting media is sometimes partially missing.
- Sunburnt.
- Not enough light.
- Too cool or cold.
- Placed in an area with very poor air circulation.
Are you seeing the point I'm making?
Did I just kill my phal?
I'm very glad I found this forum!!
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