Orchid grower wannabe...

[Yazz]

Hi Y'all,

Have a green thumb with outdoor plants, but no luck with indoor ones. Even killed a cactus. Arggg!!!

A few months ago, Hubby had an operation and his business sent him this beautiful live planter of two mature phals in full bloom. They livened up the room so much. I called the florist who sent them to find out how to take care of them. "Put five ice cubes in once a week."

Dutifully did that till the leaves started yellowing and falling off. Researched some more, learning the right way to water the guys and decided to repot them. The first orchid, all roots were rotten, was so dead it forgot to drop its flowers off. The second one, had sent out air roots so repotted it. A week later, the whole leaf top fell off. Sigh...

Bless Hubbys heart, he went out and got me a NoID orchid. It's in a two inch pot, but the small white blooms are so beautiful!

So here I am. Have no greenhouse, but the back of the house faces north and my little noid is flourishing, still sending out new buds.

I'm so envisioning having more orchids in the house to cheer it up and looking forward to watching them grow.

Thanks everybody for being here...

[judith_arquette]

Welcome! You will definitely learn a lot here, I know I have!

[Mandy2705]

The people here are just wonderful and soon you will have other types of orchids. It's only a matter of time, the bug has bitten you it seems

[Cntry]

Yazz welcome to the OB where we all love to talk about orchids and ask questions about them to. We show pictures and brag from time to time also. So jump in take some pictures of your new orchid and show us. Also Just Add Ice is the brand name of the company that the florist must of got your husbands orchids from. There is a great write up at the top of the beginner Discussion area its called The "Phal abuse ends here." It has some good advise in there on Phals. As you have questions just ask and someone will jump in and help you out. Enjoy your new orchid.

[No-Pro-mwa]

Welcome to orchid board.

[silken]

Welcome to Orchid Board

[Yazz]

Thank you all for your warm welcome! Forgot to tell you my name is Joy.

Tried to post pics of my little NoID and her roots, but think I need to post more often before that can happen.

If anyone wants to, go to my album and have a look. Is it a phal? It has little mittens on the end of the stalks.

Does the root system look ok? Have read not to repot until the orchid is through blooming and then again, some people repot all new orchids. Too much info out there for a beginner.

The best decisions are made with knowledge on the subject...

[tarev]

Welcome to OB!

[WhiteRabbit]

[stormzy]

Welcome Yazz, you are in good hands . The people here are very nice.