Watering Phalaenopsis orchids with ice cubes – Settling the matter Part 1
So let’s debate the whole watering with ice cubes technique shall we?
Our main actors: The American Orchid society, long time established organisation with world wide recognition on the scientific study of orchids. Find out more here: http://www.aos.org/Default.aspx?id=24
Just Add Ice company, a company that sells us Phalaenopsis orchids and to accentuate the ease of care for their product, advises to water this orchid with ice cubes. Find out more about them here http://www.justaddiceorchids.com/about and since there isn;t much there check out their provider here http://www.greencirclegrowers.com/about
Orchid collectors, us here on youtube, on forums on blogs and whatever your searches retrieve from google. We are not experts, but just talk about orchids, we are more or less correct in our statements.
Let us take the advice and strong points of Just add ice orchids and think them through:
1: Watering with ice reduces the risk of overwatering by providing an optimum amount of water to the orchid, as per this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYIY5F8DU14
General consent of overwatering across orchid societies is that it does not refer to the amount of water used, but its frequency, check out these articles: https://www.aos.org/Default.aspx?id=413 and http://oregonorchidsociety.org/ice-cubes-and-orchids
Collectors here on youtube or forums have the same conclusion, here are our take on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbX8JWXADA
My personal question to Just Add Ice: If my ice cubes are smaller than the ones shown in the video, is it still optimum amount? they don’t come in standard sizes 🙁
Watch Part 2 here https://youtu.be/T4p1HaT2pes
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