Orchid Flower Spike Dying

The flowers are falling off because they are done blooming.

Orchid flower spike dying. The terminal spike appears a classic sign your orchid won t live much longer. The effort spent growing a spike is taxing on your plant if you leave a spike intact your orchid will have surplus energy to put into flowers rather than investing energy in a whole new spike. Also at this time the bloom stems dies back as well. After the flowers fall off the stem starts to die the stalk is ready to be cut at the base.

So if it s relatively new to your home it doesn t necessarily mean the flowers are relatively new on the plant. Orchids naturally drop their blooms after a couple of months. Part of the orchid s normal life cycle dormancy is the plant s natural resting period. If the color has changed into more brown edges are crinkled leaves have fallen or stems stopped blooming it s certainly a dying orchid.

As this orchid blooms annually i will have to wait until next year for more flower spikes to grow. Here is a question i get quite often from my viewers who are new to the orchid hobby. According to ohio tropics if your orchid s flowers are dying and falling off it may not be a cause for concern at all. Like other flowers phalaenopsis orchids go through an annual cycle of growth bloom rest and rebirth as the cycle begins anew each year.

What happens if a flower spike yellows and dries. Leave old spikes on the plant. Orchid flowers will last for about two or three months and then start drying. In the image below i am trimming the flower spike of my cymbidium.

At the point you can still do something to recover it. And if your plant has surplus energy for a new spike guess what. If the spike is dying and looks brown trim the stem at the base of the plant. Just because the flowers are dropping does not mean your orchid is dying.

Terminal flower spikes are flower stems that appear in the middle or center of the crown of your phalaenopsis orchid hindering any more future growth be it a leaf a spike or further stem growth. There s no problem finding out if your orchid is almost at the edge. The initial indication of that problem varies. This entry was posted in gardening and tagged cutting an orchid stem cutting orchid flowers cutting orchid shoot dead orchid dead orchid branch dying orchid branch dying orchid spike how to get an orchid to rebloom masakuni modern garden orchid care phalaenopsis orchid pruning orchids reblooming orchids sunlight orchids watering orchids.