After your orchid plant's flowers have fallen off, you're left with a ho-hum clump of leaves. But with the right orchid fertilizing tips, a little TLC, and some patience, you can have flowers again.

Proper orchid fertilizing is particularly essential for potted orchids, which, over time, deplete the nutrients from their potting mix. In the wild, orchids take nutrients from decaying plant ...

It turns out there is a very simple way to get bigger and longer lasting flowers on orchids, and all you need is a food ...

Fertilizing an orchid (Image credit: Shutterstock) 3. Fertilize when necessary — Once the flowers have fallen, you’ll want to give your orchid an initial resting period from its fertilizer.

Cut the spike two or three nodes below the lowest flower, and the orchid may bloom again in as soon as 8 to 12 weeks. “There’s a 50% chance a new stalk will grow from the old one,” Kondrat says.

In 2004, the orchid produced about 100 flowers, and two years ago, it bore about 200 — hardly comparable to this year’s floral flame-out. The orchid will flower for two more weeks, so even if Congress ...

MacCubbin gives Florida gardening advice about caring for nun’s orchids, crape myrtles, sago, Mysore raspberry, mango trees, pineapple plants and controlling beggarweed ...

Why Orchid Blooms Fall Off Too Soon. Orchid blooms drop off eventually from natural causes, of course, but if the flowers are falling off prematurely, there may be a problem.

The three main nutrients in fertilizer are nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K). For general use, fertilizers with balanced NPK levels between 5 and 15 are “a pretty safe bet,” says ...