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title: "Help. I just bought this as a five dollar impulse buy at my local…"
description: "Help. I just bought this as a five dollar impulse buy at my local greenhouse. I have killed almost every orchid I have ever owned. So please tell me what to do…"
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author: "MummaDeb"
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# Help. I just bought this as a five dollar impulse buy at my local…

_MummaDeb님이 2024-05-05에 게시함_

Help. I just bought this as a five dollar impulse buy at my local greenhouse. I have killed almost every orchid I have ever owned. So please tell me what to do with this to keep it alive. I can’t repot it yet because I have no orchid soil.

![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/MOXcw7te6S9UHjaWvEfp257jXZmEcofyef83nx6UvFY/aldo1fCbTdO4ii05zP2NKA.webp?size=large)

## 9개의 댓글

### Stormy님이 2024-05-05에 댓글을 남겼어요.

Don’t water it with ice cubes and make sure you don’t get water in the crown or it will rot

### Riley님이 2024-05-05에 댓글을 남겼어요.

Make sure to not use soil and only pot it in orchid bark or a mix of orchid bark and sphagnum moss

### JDW님이 2024-05-05에 댓글을 남겼어요.

These are going on 6 years or so. In a not much bigger cup than yours is in!! Massive blooms every year. Let the aerial roots do their thing!

![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/djjAP-T5VfvYxxrZ3SY829oVgr0FAR5Ii8QCh0K1lyY/RLimhGEiSFinayLBWs-HNA.webp?size=large)

#### MummaDeb님이 2024-05-05에 답변했습니다.

So it doesn’t need repotting yet?

#### JDW님이 2024-05-05에 답변했습니다.

You can just to give those tight roots air but I wouldn’t use anything but orchid bark (as stated in other comments) and I wouldn’t go too much bigger!!! They like the air so those roots are always going to try and squirm out! My grandma always just tells me to leave them alone and that’s what I do 🤣🥰

### JDW님이 2024-05-05에 댓글을 남겼어요.

![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/djjAP-T5VfvYxxrZ3SY829oVgr0FAR5Ii8QCh0K1lyY/y9JWH-FcSgeEeLDbfGtVtA.webp?size=large)

### K님이 2024-05-07에 댓글을 남겼어요.

You can grow them in water! It works wells just needs to be fertilized twice a month I believe.

### Mr Plant Guy님이 2024-05-07에 댓글을 남겼어요.

Water with warm water when roots are silver

#### MummaDeb님이 2024-05-07에 답변했습니다.

Thank you.

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