Laysla Job

You’ve enjoyed your orchid for several months and now the flowers are wilting and dropping.  It is time to trim the orchid stem to allow the orchid to regenerate and prepare to re-bloom.

If buying an orchid, letting it flower, and then throwing it in the trash after the flowers have faded is not your profile, read on. I am the same way. I just can’t throw all that potential in the garbage. The orchid is not dead. If given proper care, it will flower again. Once the flowers are spent, it is time to trim the orchid stem and wait for a new flower spike to emerge.

Some of the links on this page may be affiliate links. Click here to learn more.

Before using the scissors, make sure they’ve been sanitized. This may seem like an unnecessary step, but it will help keep your orchids healthy by preventing viruses and other pathogens from being passed between orchids. Think of yourself as a sort of orchid doctor 🙂  There are two ways to accomplish this: rubbing alcohol or a flame.

Some of the links on this page may be affiliate links. Click here to learn more.

Orchid Bliss

Let’s talk about the Phalaenopsis orchid or moth orchid, the one you likely got from the grocery store. This is the only orchid that will rebloom on the same stalk. All other orchids will bloom again, but not from the same stalk. All other orchids can be trimmed at the base of the flower stalk.

There is one more point I want to be really clear about: Just trim the flower stalk, not the pseudobulbs. Phalaenopsis, Paphiopedilums, and Vanda orchids don’t have pseudobulbs, but most other orchids do. For instance, if you are growing Dendrobiums or Cattleyas, don’t cut the flower stalk off at the base of the plant, just trim the flower stalk. If you see a bulge in the stem, that is a pseudobulb and you don’t want to cut that. If there are leaves growing off a stalk, don’t cut that.

If the spike is dying and looks brown, trim the stem at the base of the plant.  In the image below, I am trimming the flower spike of my Cymbidium. As this orchid blooms annually, I will have to wait until next year for more flower spikes to grow. After the flowers fall off the stem starts to die, the stalk is ready to be cut at the base.

If you are lucky enough to have a double-spike Phalaenopsis orchid, cut one spike at the base and cut the other spike about an inch below the last flower.

If the flower spike is a healthy green color, one option is to find the node just below the lowest flower and prune it about an inch above the node.  Another flower spike may emerge, though the flowers will be smaller and less plentiful than they were previously.

Another option is to trim the spike near the base, with the option of leaving just a couple of nodes.  Usually, within 2-3 months new growth will appear and buds will form.  Remember that younger or weaker plants may not re-bloom.  Phalaenopsis with branching stalks will grow up from the base.  It never hurts to trim 2 nodes above the base of the plant and hope for the best. If the stalk dies, you can always trim it down of the stalk dies.

My personal recommendation is to count a  couple of notches up from the bottom and make your cut.  Phalaenopsis orchids are tough and can handle another blooming.  If the spike comes up from the base instead of blooming from the cut spike, you’ve lost nothing.

Dendrobiums are great because once the blooms are spent, the flowers can be snipped off and more buds will form. This cycle repeats until the orchid’s flowering cycle ends and the rest period begins, in preparation to bloom again. Pictured below is my Dendrobium orchid. After the flowers fade, I will trim the stalk just below the flower cluster to encourage more buds.

For Dendrobiums, trim just at the base of the flower cluster, not the base of the plant. If you’re cutting down to where leaves and pseudobulbs are growing, you’re cutting too far.

Discover more about keeping your orchid’s leaves and roots healthy by grabbing your free cheat sheet. Click here to grab your cheat sheet to learn how to grow healthier orchids. It will be super helpful.

Reanimation Jutsu : Tobirama created the Reanimation Jutsu allowing to bring the dead back to life to control them as puppets

The AFB culture is the inoculation of a clinical specimen onto culture media Becton-Dickinson Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (B-D MGIT broth) and Lowenstein-Jensen (L-J) media slant, incubation at 37°C for up to six (6) weeks and detection of growth or no growth during this incubation period.

White Sulphur Springs is a city in Greenbrier County in southeastern West Virginia , United States The population was 2,444 at the 2010 census

Zip Code 73942 , Guymon , Post Office is a United States Postal Service (USPS) facility in Guymon , (OK) This post office offers a full array of services,

The basis for vaccination began in 1796 when the English doctor Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox were protected from

RMS is a payment provider that supports card payments for small, medium, and large businesses. In addition to online payments, RMS also supports physical card-swipe machines making it a versatile payment solution.

With GonnaOrder, you can use RMS as your payment provider and enjoy significantly low card processing fees. GonnaOrder will award you a 10% discount if you register your store and enable RMS as your primary card payments processor. Read more on the GonnaOrder and RMS collaboration.

RMS facilitates payments made online through your GonnaOrder store and can also be used for offline payments with a card processing machine.

To get started with RMS as a payment provider for your GonnaOrder store, you need to request a merchant RMS account first (or you can use an existing account if you have one).

Upon successful account creation, RMS will provide you with the details needed to link GonnaOrder to your merchant account and start receiving orders.

To start receiving payments via RMS, you would need to provide three things:

RMS merchant ID

Shared Secret

Account ID

These you fill in under the payment providers section under store settings. These details can be obtained from your RMS account.

After successfully connecting to your RMS account, you can enable payments. RMS will be used as your preferred payment provider, and customers will pay directly to your account. You can disable RMS payments at any time, but you should have an alternative payment option in that case.

The RMS payments interface is a popup screen showing the required payment details. It appears on the order screen after the customer clicks on the Proceed to payments button. After making the payment, customers will be redirected to your GonnaOrder store’s order page.

GonnaOrder allows you to disconnect your store from your RMS payments account. When you need to disconnect your account, simply click on the Disconnect button to the right of your RMS account ID.