{"id":1073,"date":"2009-10-28T07:54:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T15:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2010-03-10T18:19:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T02:19:12","slug":"wrong-wrong-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/28\/wrong-wrong-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong, Wrong, Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, maybe that title is a little harsh, but I do get frustrated with orchid advice that misses the mark. In today&#8217;s sound-bite culture, oversimplification is a perennial problem, and <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kgo\/story?section=view_from_the_bay\/home_garden&amp;id=7083376\">this video clip produced by a local San Francisco TV show (video no longer available)<\/a> is a good example. While they give generally accurate info, some of their advice could be fatal to your beloved blooms. For instance, the gardening expert in the video says to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/water.html\">water<\/a> your orchid every 7 days when in bloom, and every 10 days when out of bloom. That&#8217;s fine if you have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cattleya.html\">Cattleya<\/a>, which likes to dry thoroughly, but if you try that with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/masdevallia.html\">Masdevallia<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/miltonia.html\">Miltonia<\/a>, which need daily water, you might as well toss them in the trash. I don&#8217;t want to use this post to pick apart a well-intentioned news piece, but I will warn you to beware of one-size-fits-all orchid advice. Remember that there are tens of thousands of varieties of orchids, and the perfect growing conditions for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Moth Orchid<\/a> will kill a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/vanda.html\">Vanda<\/a>. So how do you know who to believe? Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/index.html\">AboutOrchids<\/a> of course! Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/resources\/index.html\">do some reading<\/a>, check out orchid shows, and visit your local orchid society. You can still enjoy the pretty orchid pictures in the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, maybe that title is a little harsh, but I do get frustrated with orchid advice that misses the mark. In today&#8217;s sound-bite culture, oversimplification is a perennial problem, and this video clip produced by a local San Francisco TV show (video no longer available) is a good example. While they give generally accurate info, [&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":[3,22,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing","category-in-the-news","category-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","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=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}