How to Repot Cymbidium Orchids
Orchid Care Guide
Here's our step by step guide
on how to repot your Cymbidium Orchids:
Cymbidiums like to have a pot full of roots.....
....only repot them if the pot splits because of this, or if the pot is clearly overcrowded with shoots hanging over the edge of the pot. Repotting should be carried out during Spring (after flowering) and there are many decorative pots to choose from.
If you repot at other times of the year you may
damage the new emerging flowering buds (shown on the left hand side of
the photo) and leaves (shown on the right hand side).
Repotting your Cymbidium is also a good chance to make sure your orchid
has healthy roots and leaves. Remove the plant from the pot and
carefully remove the compost around the roots.
Inspect the roots, cut away any damaged ones. If the mass of roots is
too dense and tight you may care to cut through them.
Remove leafless pseudobulbs (the pseudobulb is a thickening at the base of the stem. Each bulb will develop between one and twelve leaves and a flower bud.)......
.....and remove pseudobulbs with yellow leaves.
Discard pseudobulbs with no visible healthy roots.
Only repot into a larger pot if necessary. If you
don't have a pot large enough for all of your pseudobulbs, divide them
into more than one pot, placing at least five pseudobulbs per pot.
Whichever pot you use, make sure there are plenty of drainage holes in
the pot.
Use a moisture retaining, firm orchid compost. When topping up with compost the base of the pseudobulb should be at or just above the compost level.
When you have finished repotting, water well with an orchid fertilizer that will boost your blooms.
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