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When the leaves of your orchid lose their firmness, they feel soft like leather and are wrinkled, it means the tissue is not being able to absorb all the water it needs. \u00a0You need to find out why your orchid is not getting sufficient hydration.<\/p>\n
First, you need to take a look at the roots:<\/p>\n
– if they look healthy, are firm, light green or silvery white, and you media seems to be in good condition but feels dry, then your problem is little!! \u00a0You are under watering your orchid! \u00a0Soak your potted plant for a couple of hours in plain warm water; let it drain as usual. \u00a0Review your watering routine, maybe your spacing the waterings too much! \u00a0In a temperate weather, try watering every 7 days and see how your plant is doing. \u00a0 If you have doubts, read our article: “How should I water my plants<\/a>“.<\/p>\n The solution is to cut with disinfected tools and cauterize those death roots, replace\u00a0the media with a new one (previously soaked),\u00a0and increase the relative humidity around the orchid to reduce stress for the remaining roots; give your orchid some time to stabilize! \u00a0And revise your watering routine.<\/p>\n Sometimes it’s not our fault!! When buying\u00a0a new orchid be sure to observe as much as you can the roots (and all the plant as seen in “before buying<\/a>“); some orchids are already rotting before they get to our homes.<\/p>\n Check out our “Tips to increase RH<\/a>“<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n (click on the image)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the leaves of your orchid lose their firmness, they feel soft like leather and are wrinkled, it means the tissue is not being able … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[318,311,312,391,307,315,323,309,392,394,342,320,321,316,343,322,314,313,341,393,310,308,319,317],"class_list":["post-13158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","tag-bark","tag-grow-orchid","tag-growing-orchids","tag-how-to-care-for-orchids","tag-orchid","tag-orchid-advice","tag-orchid-ants","tag-orchid-care","tag-orchid-care-instructions","tag-orchid-care-videos","tag-orchid-crown","tag-orchid-disease","tag-orchid-fungus","tag-orchid-growing-media","tag-orchid-leaves","tag-orchid-pests","tag-orchid-photos","tag-orchid-pictures","tag-orchid-roots","tag-orchid-supplies","tag-orchid-tips","tag-orchids","tag-sick-orchid","tag-sphagnum-moss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacasadelasorquideas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacasadelasorquideas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacasadelasorquideas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacasadelasorquideas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacasadelasorquideas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacasadelasorquideas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13162,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacasadelasorquideas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158\/revisions\/13162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacasadelasorquideas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacasadelasorquideas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacasadelasorquideas.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.lacasadelasorquideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Captura-de-pantalla-2013-10-02-a-las-01.46.44.png\")
<\/a>– on the other side: if the roots feel soft, mushy, are black or brown, \u00a0we are over waterings our orchids rotting their roots. \u00a0 Rotten roots are those that have turned brown; they are mushy when wet and twig-like when dry. If the roots are SUPER dead, the outer covering will sort of disintegrate and you\u2019ll see wiry, stringy-looking things. \u00a0With this rot root system it doesn’t matter how many times you water your orchids, these roots can’t absorb water.<\/p>\ncheck out our store!!
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