{"id":38,"date":"2008-03-23T15:04:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T23:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/23\/how-often-should-i-water\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T22:23:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T06:23:02","slug":"how-often-should-i-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/23\/how-often-should-i-water\/","title":{"rendered":"How often should I water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no simple formula for how many times a week an orchid should be watered.  I give some estimates on the pages that describe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/index.html\">orchid care<\/a> for common species, but they are really meant as general guidelines, not a strict set of watering rules.  You have to factor in temperature, humidity, light, and time of year.  As any of these factors vary, watering is affected.  For instance, a warm or windy day will dry out an orchid faster, and require an increase in water. A cool, gray winter day dictates less water. So start by following a formula if you must, but start to notice weather and seasonal variations. Then adjust your watering accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no simple formula for how many times a week an orchid should be watered. I give some estimates on the pages that describe orchid care for common species, but they are really meant as general guidelines, not a strict set of watering rules. You have to factor in temperature, humidity, light, and time [&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":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing","category-watering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}