{"id":9588,"date":"2012-03-17T14:56:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T22:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=9588"},"modified":"2012-07-17T12:55:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T20:55:16","slug":"weakly-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/17\/weakly-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"Weakly, Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/fertilizer.html\">fertilizing<\/a>, a good rule of thumb is to feed orchids &#8220;weakly, weekly.&#8221; Orchids do best with a weak fertilizer solution given weekly during spring and summer. It&#8217;s common to use \u00bc &#8211; \u00bd the strength recommended on the package label. A dilute fertilizer solution mimics how orchids obtain nutrients in the wild, usually in small doses. It also avoids problems caused by too much artificial fertilizer. Blackened roots or black leaf tips are typical signs of overfeeding. When orchids are emerging from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/dormancy.html\">dormancy<\/a>, new growth is especially susceptible to fertilizer burns.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to flush all orchids with clean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/water.html\">water<\/a> occasionally, at least once a month. This removes fertilizer residues which can build up and cause damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ion      <\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dormancy","category-fertilizing","category-growing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588","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=9588"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11447,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions\/11447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}