Orchid care... how to keep them blooming year after year

How can you not love an orchid? With their long lasting beautiful flowers. These plants are a great gift or centerpiece that provides long-lasting happiness. But what happens when the blooms are done? Don’t chuck that plant, read ahead or just look at the photos and I will show you how to keep that plant alive and thriving for years to come.

My tried and true gift to give someone for a birthday, housewarming, a teacher gift or just a quick grabbing go would be an orchid. My favorite place to pick them up is Trader Joe’s as they are big and beautiful and cost $14.99 (big thanks to Trader Joes for a great grab and go gift, plus the .99 card section)

When my father passed away in 2023, as a huge flower lover that he was, I didn’t want to buy cut flowers that were just going to die after the service. I decided to buy 18 orchids and use them as the centerpieces so then I could keep his memory alive with a garden. I keep the orchids on my balcony and they make me happy everytime I look outside or do my nails. Yes, our balcony has a nail salon chair and TV so it is a nice little spa. More on that in another post.

Happy to report over two years later, they have re-bloomed and are going strong. Now, all orchids are easy to care for they still do require a little bit of care.

The containers that they come in work great, but after a few years, your orchids roots are going to be getting too cramped. You’ll need to repot your orchids so that they can continue to go strong for more years to come.

What to order to replant your orchids?

You will need that have holes in them as the orchid roots like air. You will also need orchid, planting mix, which consists of moss and bark. Then you can pick up some orchid fertilizer that just goes into the water. That’s it not a huge investment that will give you quite a bit of reward.

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To get started, I like to use three bins one for the discarded roots that I cut off, followed by the new bark, followed by some moss

First unpack, the orchid pot that has become too tight. Just simply cut this off.

Then in the center of the roots, repack the orchid with new bark and moss, and then make sure it fits tightly and snug in its new container rather than loose and wobbly

Then pop it into a new pot and make sure it is nice a tight and secure in there.

Once you have done this with all of the orchids that you are replanting, you’ll need to give your orchids, a good watering, and then that is it

How to water orchids....

Do not water simply by putting some water on the top of them. You can either pop them in a bucket of water where they can soak up the water over the course of a couple hours. 

And that’s it really! Orchids are not high maintenance. A little bit of love goes a very long way! Once they’re done blooming, don’t just toss it. You can do this! Trust me the first time you get your own new bloom that it didn’t come with, you’ll feel a sense of joy and pride, realizing that you can make this beautiful plant thrive year after year I might’ve been there and I do know this. 

Xo,

Mama