{"id":11493,"date":"2012-04-04T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T20:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=11493"},"modified":"2012-06-20T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T23:27:02","slug":"why-you-need-to-repot-your-orchid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/04\/why-you-need-to-repot-your-orchid\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Need to Repot Your Orchid"},"content":{"rendered":"

It would be nice if you never had to repot your orchid<\/a>, but you do. To understand why, consider how these orchids grow high in the trees<\/a> at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden<\/a>. This is how many orchids live in the wild. Their roots may grow in moss or rainforest debris, but mostly they’re exposed to the open air. In contrast, when old potting material breaks down in a container, air cannot circulate around orchid roots.<\/p>\n

\"Cattleya<\/a>\"Phal<\/a>\"Mini<\/a><\/p>\n

Without good air flow<\/a>, roots cannot breathe, and the plant quickly dies. That’s why orchids need repotting, usually once every 2 – 3 years. Spring is the ideal time, since new roots will be happiest growing into new bark or moss. So don’t dread those repotting chores. Think of them as giving a breath of fresh air to your orchids. Check these helpful repotting tips, including how to know if your orchid needs repotting.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cattleya<\/a>\"Dendrobium<\/a>\"Cattleya<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It would be nice if you never had to repot your orchid, but you do. To understand why, consider how these orchids grow high in the trees at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden. This is how many orchids live in the wild. Their roots may grow in moss or rainforest debris, but mostly they’re exposed to […]<\/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":[13,3,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-growing","category-orchids-in-the-wild","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493","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=11493"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11592,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions\/11592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}