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Ideas for Planting Caring for Bamboo Orchids

When it comes to planting caring for bamboo orchids, remember that as terrestrials from Hawaii, they like high light and heat. If you live in a warm and wet climate, like Florida, they make interesting border plants and can be interspersed within the shrubbery.


Of course the best of the bamboo orchids are spectacular when in bloom.

Planting Caring For Bamboo Orchids Game Plan

As terrestrials, your planting caring for bamboo orchids game plan would include well drained soil. Volcanic rock or gravel can be used to improve drainage.

Try planting them with the rhizome just at medium level.

Always keep in mind how much the bamboo orchids love the sun. If there's not enough sun, there won't be many flowers.

Fertilize every 45 days. Or water with a diluted solution using something like Peters 20-20-20.

Remember that this plant is extremely hardy. Even if the top seems dead, the bulb might not be. The bulb can still be alive and producing shoots.

Then too the plant to flower ratio isn't the best. So they don't make good indoor plants. Especially since they cant reach 8-10 feet in height.

Still if you get planting caring for bamboo orchids all right, mature plants can reward you with 25 or more breath taking flowers.



Planting Caring for Bamboo Orchids






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