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BigBill said:Appelio, welcome to the NGA and I encourage you to look through our orchid forums. There you will find several "sticky's" and threads dealing with Phalaenopsis orchid care. Please read the "sticky" there regarding "Using Ice Cubes" to water your Phalaenopsis and another entitled Starting out with Supermarket Orchids-Phalaenopsis. They will provide a lot of information.

In short, orchids are tropical and sun-tropical plants. Ice cubes are never a good idea as that sticky will explain.
They like to be watered roughly one day for every inch of pot A Phalaenopsis in a 4" pot can be watered every four days. You try that schedule and adjust from there. Phalaenopsis should not dry out between waterings. NO DIRECT sunlight, even a bright North window is okay. They should be repotted every two years.
They love a temperature range of 60-85. They will take temperature out of that range but for short periods of time.
Some one will move your question to the Orchid Forums where more orchid growers will see it and answer you. If you have future questions, please post them there for quicker responses.

Thank you for replying, i just signed up and am a novice in this site and taking care of plants, so will do so next time and great advise, hope this will fix the problem.

So I need to drill my pot for drainage, it's 6" in total but the roots are deep 4" so around 4 days in between, I still don't have an idea regarding the amount of water