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Apr 8, 2015 2:16 PM CST
Name: tarev
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Flower spikes are formed in between leaves, I usually get mine during the cooler months, from late Fall to early Spring. Thankfully, I do not have to bring out the plants to feel the coolness. I guess as we transition from our triple digit hot temps in summer to the cooler temps of Falls and Winter, even indoors the plant feels it very well. Our indoor temps during winter ranges from 65F to 68F.

Adjust your watering as the season goes. If it is cooler, greater interval if it is much warmer maybe every 5 days. It all depends how wet your media remains. Phal roots like to approach dryness, they have thicker roots, so it can manage it. And it likes lots of air circulation, so in my house, I always run the ceiling fan a few minutes after watering, or if weather and temps permit it I open a window, so fresh air comes in. Water your orchid early part of the day, not a night to avoid fungal rot issues.

I grow my Phals indoor year round, by our west facing window, gets shielded by the shadow of city trees and if it is still too hot, I draw the white curtain, to avoid burning the leaves.

We all have different approaches to grow our Phals. In my growing area, I do not spray mist the leaves, since it is indoors. I concentrate more on the roots and they do just fine. It is very dry here too, what I find is, it tolerates the dryness as long as the roots gets watered as needed and gets its much needed air circulation.

Now for those other orchids of mine that are outside in my growcamp where they get more variables to dry them out much faster, due to the wind and heat, they get to have a shower often especially during our very hot and dry days. I pull most of them indoors during winter, to protect from the cold temperatures especially when it starts going down to 50-55F.

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