Tuesday, May 27, 2008

rainy days

During rainy days, orchids are very sensitive. While the rain is important to all plants because of the nutrients it gives, too much raining is not very good for orchids as far as my observation in my plants is concerned. Their leaves tend to become yellow and eventually wither and black spots appear sometimes in their leaves because of fungus. Pests are abundant during this time also because the leaves are always wet. Pests like aphids, milliphids and small bugs tend to enjoy living in damp leaves of orchids plant. They eat the roots of the orchids, so, if you will not notice it at once, the plant will surely wither and die.

9 comments:

RAV Jr said...

Yes, too much water is not good for all plants... and with the kind of rain that we have this time, polluted and acidic, i think that it is not good anymore to expose these delicate plats to this kind of water...

Justkyut said...

hello ate... isn't it you use a net to protect your orchids from bugs?

Ahmie Mendoza said...

justkyut,my orchids have nets but during rainy season, orchids tend to have fungus 'coz they are always wet and aphids tend to live in their leaves during those times and feed on their roots

Jules said...

hello ate. sorry ate ngaun lang ako nagkaroon ng time para mag comment. ang dami ko kasing problemang inasikaso for the past few weeks. :) im back on track now hehehe. =) ingat lagi! visit ako ulit dito mamaya! mwah!

Yesha said...

aww. so what happened to your orchids?

Justkyut said...

ah i see. ung lolo ko po kasi dati meron syang orchids sa harap ng bahay namin as in hardin ng orchids nun pang bata ako. as in dun ako lagi tumatambay after ng school ko. unfortunately, nung pumutok ang mount pinatubo, namatay lahat ng orchids nya kasi natabunan ng sulfur at ashes from the volcano. nalungkot kami ng lolo ko. pero natatandaan ko na pag tag ulan lagi nya linilinis ung paso ng mga orchids nya kasi daw baka mamatay ung mga orchids

Ahmie Mendoza said...

hi jules, thanks for finding time to visit again...

Ahmie Mendoza said...

hi autumn...ok pa naman iba kong orchids even if some of them tend to have yellowish leaves these days.thanks for visiting...

Yesha said...

i see. i guess they're being well taken care of. =]