{"id":125,"date":"2008-06-16T14:36:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T22:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/16\/technically-its-still-repotting-season\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T21:45:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T05:45:57","slug":"technically-its-still-repotting-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/16\/technically-its-still-repotting-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Technically, It&#8217;s Still Repotting Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few of days of spring left, so it&#8217;s still repotting season. It&#8217;s best to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/potting.html\">repot orchids<\/a> in the spring, and I have lots of orchids, so I always seem to be trying to catch up with this gardening chore. Doing this in spring, just as most are starting a cycle of growth, allows the plants to recover before temperatures heat up. With newly grown roots, the orchids can make efficient use of the long hours of summer sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve slowly worked down my long list of repotting candidates, and now there are only a few left. I recently got around to this tiny Stelis. This picture is from a couple years ago before Dave bought the macro lens for his camera. I hope with fresh potting media that this tiny <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/masdevallia.html\">Masdevallia<\/a> relative will produce some new blooms, and Dave can get some better pictures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/stelis_1_640px.jpg\" title=\"Stelis flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/stelis_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Stelis flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few of days of spring left, so it&#8217;s still repotting season. It&#8217;s best to repot orchids in the spring, and I have lots of orchids, so I always seem to be trying to catch up with this gardening chore. Doing this in spring, just as most are starting a cycle of growth, [&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":[15,3,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-growing","category-mini-orchids","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","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=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}