Orchid On A Stick, Intriguing and
Strikingly Beautiful

Orchid on a stick have been written about in various orchid books and orchid articles. Many plants are strikingly beautiful when mounted in this fashion. The orchid plant and actually looks like an orchid in the wild, growing as an epiphyte on a tree branch. Many orchids can be grown this way. Particluarly suited are the epiphytes which are many kinds of orchids.

Orchids on a stick are on the smaller size for orchids and depending on the orchid type can sometimes be more difficult to grow. Sometimes there are specific requirements that are necessary to grow these mounted orchids. They often found in the wild in the intermediate elevations of rain forests like in the southern region of Mexico and Guatemala countryside. They enjoy the cooler nights that are found in this environment. Often the summers there are are warm and moist and the winters are dry.

Various kinds of genera can be grown in this fashion. Some of them can actually be deciduous and they lose their leaves and actually become dormant in the fall and early part of the winter. Then all of a sudden late in the winter they begin to bloom and flower from the bare leafless stick.

Once they become dormant they should be left alone in a dry cool area until they begin to bloom then begin to water.

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