Growing Orchids -
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Growing orchids can be very easy. "Well easy for you to say this but hard for me to do". No not necessarily, like most plants they need light, water and fertilizer. TLC never hurts either. Here are a some tips that you might want to consider.

1. Ask around. Yes, most people growing orchids love to answer questions. Like most people giving advice is fun and makes one fell useful.

 You can learn a great deal about growing orchids from the local orchid society. There are many orchid societies throughout the world and once again they are a treasure of information. At many of their meetings the members will bring in some orchid plants that they are willing to sell. Usually they are at a very cheap price.

2. Growing orchid plants follow no set rules. There are no check off lists to follow nor are there any secret ingredients to use. The fertilizer, for example, is a well balanced one of 20-20-20 which is available in any store that deals with plants.

Also, don't be surprised if you ask the same question to several orchid growers and get different answers.

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3. Make it fun. Make the trip you are taking with your orchids fun. Consider it a learning experience. Continue to talk with a lot of people, don't be afraid to ask questions. Everyone of us have gone through the same thing and thought that our questions were extremely basic and one I should know the answer to.

Even very simple questions are important if they are important only to you.

If you have a failure and lose an orchid plant just laugh about it. After all, been there and done that. We're all on a journey and it is a learning one. Learn from your mistakes.

If you're not sure why it went wrong then ask a friendlt orchid grower.

4. Books. Yes there are a large number of books out there and they cover a lot about growing orchids. They are great to have as references so that you can try to understand what you did right as well as what you did wrong.

As I mentioned in the outset this was a very general article on growing orchids but one that I felt was important to give to you.

The "stuff" about water, light and fertilizer is covered in other sections of this Web site. Orchid Care

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