How do I get my orchid to bloom again?

Don't worry, its in dormacy, not dead-

When your orchid stops blooming, begin fertilizing it every other week with a balanced houseplant fertilizer (20-20-20) mixed at half strength. Do not water your Just Add Ice Orchid with 3 ice cubes on the weeks you fertilize your plant.

Move your orchid to a cooler environment where nighttime temperatures are between 55 and 65 degree F. until a new flower spike emerges.

Return your plant to its usual location and continue watering with 3 ice cubes once a week. Good luck!

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I have an orchid and I don't do the ice cube thing. I water thoroughly when dry. Then wait until it is dry again and water. I don't know who came up with the ice cube idea, but it's actually ineffective. I use orchid potting mix and replanted mine. It blooms and then the flowers die and then it blooms again. Google the orchid gardener

Mine started blooming again when I began watering it thoroughly under the running water tap. Then I let it drain all of the water out and place it back in the decorative pot I display it in. I have never fertilized before so I am going to try that next. We keep our night time thermostat set at 63 in the winter. That is usually when I get a blooming stem so I believe that the temperature also plays a part in the blooming.

In the tropics orchids bloom in winter. Cool temperatures signal it to bloom. Orchids don't like wet feet. Make sure you have very well draining soil (even wood bark chips work). Water your plant and let it drain once a week. Moving it to a cooler window will help it push out a bloom spike.

We always have at least two orchids. They are potted with the wood chips. We fill the pot with water, let it stand for up to ten minutes, take the inner pot out and let it drain for about fifteen minutes. Pit it back in the outer decorative pot and you are done. We have never fertilized them and we always have flowers. One of ours is still blooming and showing signs of another branch of flowers forming. We keep ours in a south window that has an overhang keeping out the direct sun. Ours bloom no matter the season without any other care.

I must be lucky because I have one that just blooms over and over. I water it only once a week.

I never use the ice cube method but water exactly how others have previously said: water well about every 7 to 10 days. Let water run through making sure the bark looks darker in color which signifies it's well soaked. This may take almost a full minute at the tap. Let the pot drain WELL, tipping it slightly ensuring there's no residual water then return to its outer decorative pot. I know how frustrating it can be to wait an entire year but ever since my friend's husband gave me this following tip, my orchids bloom ALL the time with no fertilizer or special window location. If only I'd known this tip as I gave away so many orchids!

He owns over 200 orchids, has won many orchid shows and even starts them from seed so he's quite the expert. Here's his tip: when the stem drops all of its blooms, do NOT cut the stem back IF it remains green. (I always cut the green stem back thinking I was doing the right thing!). IF the stem turns completely brown, cut it off, but if it stays green, leave it alone as more blooms will develop on that green stem.

I have one particular orchid that finally dropped 13 blooms this past weekend and all three stems are still green. They are getting a bit long and I'd love to shorten the stems but, sure enough, there's 7 more buds appearing this morning!

I forgot to add, that in the Summer, I tilt my shutters a little so the blooms don't overheat and like others said (before I knew the green versus brown stem tip) I used to stick my orchids out in the colder weather for a day or two and that would sometimes "jump start" the odd bloom. However, as said, the best advice I ever received was the cutting of the brown stem as described above in my previous Comment!