How to care for a 'moth orchid'?

That's pretty Ian but I wouldn't have a clue what to do with it.

LMSO Tulsa, thats what I said except you missed the bl**dy out. :~))

Ian there is lots of info on looking after phalaenopsis just do a search if you need more. Don't repot it will be fine you can hide the clear plastic pot in a cache pot. Water very, very sparingly and never allow the orchid to stand in water - it grows in the trees in its native habitat so only gets wet when it rains. Keep reasonably warm but not in direct sunlight. When the flowering spike has finished flowering cut back to one of the lower points on the branch where you can see and axil. If you really want to spoil it you can buy orchid food, the tub of powder works out much cheaper in the long run than the liquid version.

Thanks Moon Grower, I have just been doing exactly that. There is loads of info on GoY about them. Now I know its name I can read even more closely at what I should be doing. :~)))))

Its very pretty but really looks like a moth
(shudder)
good find Carol

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Don't you like moths then Jen?

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

eugh make me scream like abig jessy, cold sweats, feeling sick,shakes... pretty much the same with butterflies but these are worse

:o(

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Ooops sorry. :~)))))))))

hahaha

no worries
just a lala really
one of those phobias that just came from no-where!! bizare
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:~))

What does LMSO mean I'm still learning.

laughing my socks off
bit more polite than LMAO!!

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Mookins please send me a pm i 'm good for a laugh .

sent you onemaybe Ian will know where the blg was with all the versions like this on

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Hi Tulsa, I have had a look but I can't find it so it wasn't one of mine. :~((

mmmm will have another look round

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A little tip, Ian. Don't cut the stem back until the very last flower has dropped off. A new stem should grow either from the old one (the little axil or flap that Mg said), or from between the leaves.

If this doesn't happen, then take the pot into a cooler room - 5-8 degrees lower is about right. Leave it there for 3 weeks and then bring it back. You'll find that a new stem has begun to grow.

By the way, be ready with a small cane and a clip to support the new stem - they grow at funny angles!

Thanks Spritz for pointing this out - you are the expert on these orchids for which I am grateful xxx

I'm grateful to all of you as I didn't have a clue what to do.
That sentence sounded like a line from a 1970's song from sweet. Blockbuster. LOl :~)))

The red car and the blue car had a race!!.....

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Thanks, Mg - what a lovely compliment! :-))

Ian - you're welcome. I hope it thrives for you!

Mookins, were we in the same asylum? Lol
Spritz, Thank you. :~))