{"id":10398,"date":"2011-11-26T20:57:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T04:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=10398"},"modified":"2011-12-22T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T23:02:00","slug":"orchid-care-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/26\/orchid-care-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Care in Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orchid care changes with the seasons. Growers need to adjust for winter&#8217;s approach in the Northern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Orchids with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/12\/pseudobulb\/\">pseudobulbs<\/a> are entering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/dormancy.html\">dormancy<\/a>. If they sport swollen stems like those in the first photo below, they may only need <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/water.html\">water<\/a> once or twice per month over winter. Too much water can cause rot, or mess up the plant&#8217;s flowering schedule. Cut back on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/fertilizer.html\">fertilizer<\/a>, too.<\/li>\n<li>Orchids without pseudobulbs, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Phals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/paphiopedilum.html\">Paphs<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/masdevallia.html\">Masdevallias<\/a>, don&#8217;t go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/dormancy.html\">dormant<\/a>. However, with seasonally lower <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/light.html\">light levels<\/a> and cooler <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/temperature.html\">temps<\/a>, it\u2019s best to reduce their water and fertilizer slightly.<\/li>\n<li>All orchids need <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/humidity.html\">good humidity<\/a>, but home and office heating can dry the air like an arid desert. Low humidity can cause blooms to wilt, and invite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/problems\/index.html\">pests like spider mites, mealybugs, and scale<\/a>. Find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/27\/winter-challenges\/\">helpful tips to raise humidity here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/22\/seasonal-light\/\">adding extra light<\/a> to compensate for the weak winter sun.<\/li>\n<li>Members of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cattleya.html\">the Cattleya family<\/a>, like the red and yellow hybrid in the second photo below, may be affected by too many hours of artificial light. They  require long, dark nights to trigger flowering. Keep them away from any artificial light at night.<\/li>\n<li>Remove dead leaves or flowers. This helps limit hiding places for unwelcome pests or disease.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t panic if a few older leaves wither and drop. Some varieties of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/dendrobium.html\">Dendrobiums<\/a>, like the cool grower in the final photo below, lose all their leaves. Other types, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/feed-me-seymour\/\">Cycnoches<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/05\/stream-orchid\/\">Epipactis<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/thunia\/\">Thunia<\/a>, are also deciduous. Continue to give them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/light.html\">bright light<\/a> and good humidity. Water when their pseudobulbs start to shrivel, only once or twice per month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Orchid_with_pseudobulb_stems_800px.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-10446\" title=\"Unidentified orchid with thick pseudobulb stems in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Orchid_with_pseudobulb_stems_800px-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"Unidentified orchid with thick pseudobulb stems in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Orchid_with_pseudobulb_stems_800px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Orchid_with_pseudobulb_stems_800px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Orchid_with_pseudobulb_stems_800px.JPG 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cattleya_San_Yang_Ruby_640px.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-10444\" title=\"Cattleya hybrid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cattleya_San_Yang_Ruby_640px-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"Cattleya hybrid\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cattleya_San_Yang_Ruby_640px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cattleya_San_Yang_Ruby_640px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cattleya_San_Yang_Ruby_640px.JPG 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Dendrobium_nobile_640px.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-10445\" title=\"Cool growing Dendrobium that sheds leaves over winter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Dendrobium_nobile_640px-128x96.jpg\" alt=\"Cool growing Dendrobium that sheds leaves over winter\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Dendrobium_nobile_640px-128x96.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Dendrobium_nobile_640px-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Dendrobium_nobile_640px.JPG 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchid care changes with the seasons. Growers need to adjust for winter&#8217;s approach in the Northern Hemisphere. Orchids with pseudobulbs are entering dormancy. If they sport swollen stems like those in the first photo below, they may only need water once or twice per month over winter. Too much water can cause rot, or mess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,3,6,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dormancy","category-fertilizing","category-growing","category-photos","category-problems","category-watering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10515,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions\/10515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}